I like Nickelback, though. Seriously.

White is too stark on me to use as a waterline eyeliner. I usually go for a pinkish tone. I use the Anastasia Highlighting Duo Pencil for that purpose - I’ll use either the matte or the shimmery side depending on my look for the day.

It seems to me that natural bristles are more delicate and can’t handle creme products that dry to a hardened state the way synthetic bristles can. So for me it’s (mostly) powder products used with natural brushes, creme and powders for synthetic.

I love the RT purple brush, but I tend to use it more for cream shadows since it’s synthetic. The 217 I mostly use for blending powders.

As others have written, using your hands to apply makeup is totally valid. Mary Greenwell, one of the world’s top artists, uses her hands a lot.

Men know little to nothing about makeup. They don’t know how it works, and they barely know when a woman is wearing it. I mean, they can tell when the application is obvious, but they have no idea about more natural effects.

Your statements are ridiculous. Black people have been killed while shopping, while inspecting their own properties, while walking down stairs in their own building. Because they were black. The distrustful eye of that Starbucks employee can lead directly to a black person being injured or killed by police or by…

I love and adore good old Ponds. I apply it all over my face and eyelids, spritz a Kleenex with clean water to dampen it, then wipe off the cold cream & makeup with the damp tissue. I then will use a clean warm washcloth to go over my face and get off any last traces, and I’ll follow that by washing my face with a…

I thought I read that too.

Um, yes, marriage is recognized by society. Cheating with a married person makes you a jerk helping to screw up a family. It’s not totally your fault, but it’s partly your fault. You are being a jerk if you participate in a deception against someone else. You are not being a jerk if the other spouse knows about you…

I just don’t understand how someone could be a bad kisser but good in bed. I mean, how can one think that licking teeth and nostrils, jabbing tongues, etc. are hot, and be cognizant of the other things that turn people on?

The balloon anecdote made me laugh out loud. I didn't even know that this was a variety of bad kissing.

Why on Earth not? I’m sorry, but bad kissing is utterly horrible and no one should have to suffer it in silence. And it won’t get better without addressing it, because obviously the person thinks that his subpar skills pass muster.

They rank way at the bottom - to you.

I don’t understand why you care about a bunch of women going to a class on makeup, and you don’t care about a bunch of guys learning how to use their pricey camera gear to take photos and get more likes on Flickr and approval from their fellow photographers. It’s the same thing. People investing their time in the…

Do you feel superior to these people?

You wrote that -

Some people wear makeup to rock the latest bold lip color, and others wear makeup just to look “normal” because they might have really blemished or marked skin. You don't know.

This, exactly. Most men who are not named Francois Nars are completely ignorant about makeup. The Instagram look is not meant to impress the average man, it’s meant to impress other women (and the few men) who know what it takes to achieve that look.

Me too! And the bedtime ritual can be long because that's when I clean my brushes as well as my face.