Now that "affordable" often means "free," I am not stopping by the MAC counter to check out their new foundation formulation, even though it comes in my color (NC15) and seems widely acclaimed on Makeup Alley. Instead, I've been reaching into my stash to use MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Light as my foundation. Given the Natural formulation, there's no glitter or shimmer, just a luminosity on my cheekbones. It gives a good, even finish with medium coverage. It doesn't last all the way through to night, but I don't use it on days I want something permanent. It's more a quick way to get some coverage and get out the door.
As an alternative to a t-shirt, I wear a green Pendleton sweater vest under sweaters and jackets. Despite being wool, this is actually a lightweight combination, keeping me warm without overheating. I paid $16 for mine at a consignment store. I was shocked when I saw the retail prices for Pendleton clothes. They're a bit much for unfussy basics. (The above is actually a Woolrich sweater. I couldn't find something close enough to what I own on the Pendleton site.)
Now is not the time to be buying $14 Clinique lipsticks. Instead, I paid $10 apiece for a couple of Colour Surge Bare Brilliance Waterviolet lipsticks at a Cosmetics Company Outlet. Just as well - Clinique's discontinued this color in the Bare Brilliance series.
I feel a similar reaction to Kubrick (I keep waiting for something to click; it doesn't), with the lone exception of Lolita, but I suspect that's because it's really done in the Old-Hollywood style.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've seen Cabaret other a high-school performance long ago. Even that short clip tantalizes, and makes you want to go and watch the rest.
I've taken to consignment shops, too.
While I do like Kubrick, I feel like I watch his movies as just that - movies - whereas I think people generally watch him as a master of film. Consequently, I often don't know what people are talking about when they're talking about his films.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the best way to make a film boring is to analyze it to death, but then so many people have no idea what it means to just enjoy watching something without having an "informed opinion" on it.
Well Dr. Strangelove is pretty funny. I didn't really get A Clockwork Orange though, the movie or the book, and suspect that the franchise gets a lot more hype than it deserves (Anthony Burgess himself, the writer of the book, has said as much: it was originally a cathartic project which he undertook after his wife was attacked by street thugs and miscarried what was to be their only child, and which is echoed in the famous rape scene. NOT the glorification of violence that it is frequently made out to be.)
ReplyDeleteIt IS rather ridiculous how magazines now carry articles about "bargains for the fashionista strapped for cash!" or something along those lines... they're completely irrelevant, both to people who are actually in trouble (who should be buying as little as possible), and to those fortunate enough to still be buying frivolous things, who don't need to worry about bargains.
Keeping this in mind, your insight (drawing parallels between the Great Depression and today) is spot-on. 1930's fashion magazines often carried articles about "making do and mending," when it's what poorer people had been doing all along, regardless of the times. The more things change...