Make-up session, threading, dermalogica
I got to the makeup run-through *and* back, and only deviated from my route twice. This isn't good when you consider that for the vast majority of the way I was driving the route to shul, and that only the last five minutes turned out to be uncharted territory for me (I didn't go via the North Circular in the end, but up to East Finchley). I als managed to park in a space, perfectly, with only two foot spare in total - at the first attempt.
I am truly a driving goddess.
Which is lucky because this Thursday I've got to get to Hatfield for 0900. I think I'll leave home at 0730 (as I used to when I worked there) and get there a bit early - purely to avoid the one right hand turn on my way to work.
Mr W has asked if I would be happy with one of those TomTom things that you stick in the car and which magically tells you where to go to get to where you want to be.
Anyway, I digress. The gory details about the make-up session.
That went badly. Not because of the artist (a friend of mine and I'll link to her site when it's up again because she's lovely), or the makeup (mmmmmmmac), but because of my skin. It's apparently waaaaay too dry to wear makeup at the moment. Shelley had asked me to arrive with cleansed and moisturised skin. Not a problem. Walked in - she asked if I'd forgotten to moisturise. Well, obviously I said I had moisturised, but she said my skin needed much more. So she painted some on with a brush - lovely vitamin E stuff from body shop (and they've got a three for two at the moment in some of the stores). When that had settled, she tried a foundation. A very light foundation because I don't usually wear any. Anyway, my skin absorbed the moisture and within five minutes it looked like I'd caked my face in powder - plus my skin was so dry that it started to flake - one reason I'd stopped using makeup. I'd thought that bad absorbtion of makeup was a sign I shouldn't wear makeup, and so had stopped wearing anything apart from mascara and some lippy, but apparently it's a sign that my skin is dry to the point of dessication. Fantastic news. So Shelley did what she could with my face and her amazing bag of tricks. Her brushes alone apparently cost thousands! I was in heaven looking at her kit. Thw whole way through she kept exclaiming "your skin is SO dry!". It's not ideal to have pants skin on a makeup dry run - I'm living in fear I'm going to look like a leper in the wedding photographs, she's worried she won't do either of us justice - and I'm feeling guilty about her portfolio and my photographs.
I threw myself on her mercy. Thankfully there's a salon about ten minutes walk from her house which she goes to as regularly as she can afford, and with which she has a cross-recommendation thing going. So when we'd done what we could with my peeling, flaking, frankly-not-performing face, Shelley made a call to her friend there and explained the situation. I also needed my eyebrows done. I was dispatched to said salon (a wonderful place - Goldilocks in Muswell Hill) and arrived five minutes late (having read the map incorrectly in my haste). Within minutes I was lying on a couch having my eyebrows threaded.
Threading - that hurts. I'm sure you've heard of it - it's one of three ways to remove eyebrow hair. One - plucking (long and painful). Two - waxing (not good for skin's elasticity as it's essentially an exfoliator). Three - threading. Originally from India, it involves swiping hairs out by using knotted thread which the nasty person sort of rolls over your eyebrow. My god it hurts. I was flinching like you wouldn't believe - at one stage (I was lying down) both my feet came off the couch as I tried to stay still and not kill the girl.
Dermalogica had now been recommended to my by three people - Nicky (wife of Nathan, designer of of zoeandgreggethitched.com), Lucille, and now Shelley. The girl at the salon used the stuff to remove my makeup and cleanse my face (and then obviously concluded by moisturising it fully) whilst telling me the order to use the products in and how much to use of each. She wasn't telling me to buy everything, and some things she was recommending she gave me samples of so I didn't spend *all* my salary in one fell swoop.
So I bowed to fate and signed up. I know it's common sense not to mess with your skincare regime within the last three months leading up to your wedding day, but to be honest I don't think my skin could have looked any worse, so am hoping it will at least look a bit better. I'd like to look less like my skin is made of chalk in some photographs in my life.
I'm now a dermalogica convert. I'm also worrying that, whilst my skin feels quite good now, it might still be too dry. So I have decided that I'll see if I can meet up with Shelley in a week or so (I'll probably see her in shul next Saturday for our aufruf - which I'll explain later) so she can do a progress check. If my skin is still a problem, she's just going to have to find some way around it. I've no idea what to do if this new stuff doesn't work. Not lifting my veil at all throughout the whole day is seeming a more and more attractive option.
I am truly a driving goddess.
Which is lucky because this Thursday I've got to get to Hatfield for 0900. I think I'll leave home at 0730 (as I used to when I worked there) and get there a bit early - purely to avoid the one right hand turn on my way to work.
Mr W has asked if I would be happy with one of those TomTom things that you stick in the car and which magically tells you where to go to get to where you want to be.
Anyway, I digress. The gory details about the make-up session.
That went badly. Not because of the artist (a friend of mine and I'll link to her site when it's up again because she's lovely), or the makeup (mmmmmmmac), but because of my skin. It's apparently waaaaay too dry to wear makeup at the moment. Shelley had asked me to arrive with cleansed and moisturised skin. Not a problem. Walked in - she asked if I'd forgotten to moisturise. Well, obviously I said I had moisturised, but she said my skin needed much more. So she painted some on with a brush - lovely vitamin E stuff from body shop (and they've got a three for two at the moment in some of the stores). When that had settled, she tried a foundation. A very light foundation because I don't usually wear any. Anyway, my skin absorbed the moisture and within five minutes it looked like I'd caked my face in powder - plus my skin was so dry that it started to flake - one reason I'd stopped using makeup. I'd thought that bad absorbtion of makeup was a sign I shouldn't wear makeup, and so had stopped wearing anything apart from mascara and some lippy, but apparently it's a sign that my skin is dry to the point of dessication. Fantastic news. So Shelley did what she could with my face and her amazing bag of tricks. Her brushes alone apparently cost thousands! I was in heaven looking at her kit. Thw whole way through she kept exclaiming "your skin is SO dry!". It's not ideal to have pants skin on a makeup dry run - I'm living in fear I'm going to look like a leper in the wedding photographs, she's worried she won't do either of us justice - and I'm feeling guilty about her portfolio and my photographs.
I threw myself on her mercy. Thankfully there's a salon about ten minutes walk from her house which she goes to as regularly as she can afford, and with which she has a cross-recommendation thing going. So when we'd done what we could with my peeling, flaking, frankly-not-performing face, Shelley made a call to her friend there and explained the situation. I also needed my eyebrows done. I was dispatched to said salon (a wonderful place - Goldilocks in Muswell Hill) and arrived five minutes late (having read the map incorrectly in my haste). Within minutes I was lying on a couch having my eyebrows threaded.
Threading - that hurts. I'm sure you've heard of it - it's one of three ways to remove eyebrow hair. One - plucking (long and painful). Two - waxing (not good for skin's elasticity as it's essentially an exfoliator). Three - threading. Originally from India, it involves swiping hairs out by using knotted thread which the nasty person sort of rolls over your eyebrow. My god it hurts. I was flinching like you wouldn't believe - at one stage (I was lying down) both my feet came off the couch as I tried to stay still and not kill the girl.
Dermalogica had now been recommended to my by three people - Nicky (wife of Nathan, designer of of zoeandgreggethitched.com), Lucille, and now Shelley. The girl at the salon used the stuff to remove my makeup and cleanse my face (and then obviously concluded by moisturising it fully) whilst telling me the order to use the products in and how much to use of each. She wasn't telling me to buy everything, and some things she was recommending she gave me samples of so I didn't spend *all* my salary in one fell swoop.
So I bowed to fate and signed up. I know it's common sense not to mess with your skincare regime within the last three months leading up to your wedding day, but to be honest I don't think my skin could have looked any worse, so am hoping it will at least look a bit better. I'd like to look less like my skin is made of chalk in some photographs in my life.
I'm now a dermalogica convert. I'm also worrying that, whilst my skin feels quite good now, it might still be too dry. So I have decided that I'll see if I can meet up with Shelley in a week or so (I'll probably see her in shul next Saturday for our aufruf - which I'll explain later) so she can do a progress check. If my skin is still a problem, she's just going to have to find some way around it. I've no idea what to do if this new stuff doesn't work. Not lifting my veil at all throughout the whole day is seeming a more and more attractive option.
posted by Chaya at 11:36 am
4 Comments:
Go to www.beautyflash.co.uk for cheap(er) Dermalogica products. A lot cheaper than in the shops and they deliver.
I have dry skin too, and I think the trick is to drink a lot of water, and also make sure you are taking multi-vitamins - especially Omega 3's - which are good for just about everything. Eat lots of fresh fruit and veg, and fish is also good for skin - especially those considered 'oily' - I think salmon falls under this catagory.
I know you are not a heavy drinker - but booze does dry out the skin, so it may be worth laying off a week or two before the wedding just in case you are worried.
Also, I read in one of my mags, that Abigail Clancy (Peter Crouch's on again-off again gf) reccommends Dermalogica's Multivitamin Power Recovery Masque - to give stressed skin that extra boost it needs. (It's on the beauty flash website under 'masques.)
I'm at my wits end if this change doens't work. I already drink over 2 litre of water a day, eat more than 5 fruit/ veg portions, take vitamins including cod liver oil and the omega stuff, and last had a drink (a bottle of beer) last Wednesday - before that it was the previous weekend.
I've stopped smoking.
The only thing I'm not doing is eating oily dish - but that's because I hate it.
I'm going to go and spend this week's salary on that website, need to find cute little travel sized bottles of everything (and take them with me when I go away ;) ) Thanks for the tip!
You're welcome. I've used their travel kits before and I reccommend you take a full-size moisturiser along if you are going away for two weeks or more. The cleanser and toner in the mini size will last you just fine.
Trying to remember the name of the cleanser is proving hard... but thanks (again) for the tip on the moisturiser! Have you considered becoming a beauty adviser/ consultant?
Now, to shop!
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