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1. 32
2.Female
3. retail sales clerk

Makeup: Uses, application

1.What kind of makeup do you use every day? Please list all items, and specify brands, and whether they are miniatures or full-sized. (Feel free to list it all!)

• foundation (covergirl simply ageless or revlon colorstay)
• Powder (Quo double wear powder or revlon colorstay)
• eye shadow base (MAC paint pot in painterly)
• neutral eyeshadow (covergirl, loreal or mac)
• mascara (maybelline or loreal)
• blush (benefit dandelion or clinique posy)
• lip balm (nivea)
• lipstick (mac, loreal or revlon)

2.How much time on average per day do you spend applying makeup (in minutes, please specify AM, PM and touch-ups separately)?

• am-10-15 minutes
• touch-ups (one minute)
• No pm

3.For how long have you had these products? Do you keep track of how long you’ve had makeup for?

• varies...foundation for about a month-no need to keep tracvk-it'll be gone before the expiry date. Powders I keep until they're done, and lipsticks until they smell funny. Also-pain pot until it's too dry or I run out.

4.How do you store your cosmetics with you when going out/travelling? What items do you take with you every day?

• I take every item I use that day with me save for mascara.
• I use a small makeup bag from clinique (GWP)

5.Applying makeup in public: Yay or Nay? Why?

• Not a full face. powder or lipstick is fine. Anything else, and a visit to the washroom is in order.

6.How do you apply your makeup? Please list all tools used (eg. Fingers, brushes, sponges…and also specify for what items)

• Fingers and sometimes sponges (I find my fingers work the absolute best) for foundation
• Sponge for powder (sometimes a brush but I find I get too much of a powdery look with brushes)
• brush for blush
• brush for eyeshadow
• fingers for paint pots
• mascara applicator
• Lipstick by the tube

Makeup: Hygiene

1.How often do you clean your makeup and makeup applicators/brushes/sponges? How do you clean them?

• Face brushes every day (maybe why I don't use them)
• powder/blush/eyeshadow brushes every 2nd week or so
• If I use sponges I throw them out after about 5 days' use
• for sponges incompacts, I wash about every 3 or 4 weeks.

• I clean all with dish soap and warm water.

2.How can you tell when an item of makeup goes bad? (Especially for makeup in pan/compact packaging like concealer, foundation, powder, eyeshadow, blush)

• In a pan, I wouldn't know-I've either used mine up or thrown it away before it when bad
• for liquid foundation-when it separates
• powder lasts forever (in my book)
• lipstick/lipgloss when it smells bad, changes color or changes consistency.
• eyeshadow and blush, like powder, last forever for me. I don not throw them out ever.

3.Hygiene of cosmetics: how important is this for you? I noticed that many companies don’t actually specify the expiry dates on their products and so it’s really difficult to tell when they are unsuitable for use/go bad.

• On liquids I like a definite "good for 24 months after opening" symbol, but bit's not necessary for me. 'm confident in my ability to detedt when it's gone bad.

4.Have you ever had a bad experience with old/unclean make-up? (e.g. breakouts, irritations, allergies, infections)

• No

5.If you knew that an item of makeup went bad/expired, would you still keep it (e.g. For sentimental reasons, or you like the packaging, or it was expensive)? Why?

• No

Makeup: Packaging Poll!

Please specify brands, products and why – please feel free to name as many as you like!

1.What is your absolute favourite makeup packaging(s)? What do you like about it? (E.g. the look and feel of it, the way it fits in your hand, the satisfaction of a good click when it closes…).

• Mac Hello Kitty Kouture sheer mystery powder is one of my all-time favorite packages. It feels heavy in the hand, nice weight to it, fits perfectly in the pakm of my hand (not too big or too small), it's metal, not plastic, which I like (denotes quality, I guess), it's CUTE!!!!!!!!, it has CRYSTALS on it, and it's LIMITED edition but something I'll be happy to keep and keep using for years to come even if I run out of powder, since a blush will fit in there and also, I would just use it for the mirror. I also love that you press a button to open it. It reminds me of old-time glamour with a younger design.
• Lucite packages (I think that's what it's called-thick hard clear plastic cpompacts like for physician's formula shimmer strips, clinique's all-over face color, etc. They feel so strudy, like they wouldn't break, they're shiny and clear when they'r enew, and oyu cn see what's in them.
• Clinique's compacts. Made of plastic (lpots of times green or silver) they feel sturdy, unbreakable. They have a satisfying click when closing them, and the compacts are not tiny. I like a bigger, more sturdy-feeling compact, I find it glamourous.
• Estee Lauder fancy gold compacts. i have yet to own one but they look so nice, I'm coveting them!!

2.Most + Least hygienic makeup packaging

• LEAST: Bottles with no pump (revlon colorstay regular)
• MOST: tubes (Revlon colorstay active light), bottles with pump (Mac mineralize satin finish), or creams that can be santised whenever you want

3.Most + Least innovative

• MOST: revlon colorstay-this stuff is amazing
• LEAST: Loreal true match-no coverage (or ligh), no spf

4.Most + Least convenient (please list any perks and irks. I’m especially interested in makeup for travelling/going out)

• compacts are most convenient (of anything, foundation, powder, blush, etc)
• Liquids are least convenient (foundation, blush, etc.)

5.Most + Least valuable/memorable (for you personally)

• MOST: hello kitty kouture!!!!!!!
• LEAST: I don't remember!!!

6.Best + Worst design (please describe visual, feel etc.)

• BEST: Kitty Kouture compact (cute, glmaourous, heavy, feels sturdy, pretty)
• WORST: Covergirl simply ageless foundation

7.Makeup packaging: miniature/single-use or full-sized?

• Full size

8.How often have you completely finished a full-sized product (please specify which brand/product)? How long did it take?

• Revlon Active Light makeup. Used it every day for about 4 months before it was all gone.

9.Half-finished/Used-up/expired makeup: throw away packaging or keep? Why?

• Throw away-it's no use to me, unless it a specifically valuable product like hello kitty kouture that can be used indefinitley for the pakaging alone.