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Ever hear
someone in a blog or on YouTube say they were excited to hit pan on a product?
That this bronzer is great for contouring? That they de-potted an eyeshadow?
Did you think to yourself—what the heck does that mean? Today, I’m going to
define some commonly used beauty terms!
Dupe means that something is a duplicate
for something else. Usually, this means that someone has found a drugstore
product that mimics the effects of a high-end product. For example, I had a
Beauty Battle on eyeshadow primers and discovered that Wet ‘n Wild’s Fergie
Take On The Day Eyeshadow Primer in CA027 For My Primas was a duplicate, or
dupe, for Urban Decay’s Eyeshadow Primer Potion in Original (and Wet ‘n Wild’s
eye shadow primer is about 1/3 of the price of Urban Decay). They had the same
texture and performance.
Fallout is when a product ends up where it
shouldn’t. The term fallout is typically used when talking about eyeshadows. Flakes
of eyeshadow, especially glittery eyeshadow, can end up under your eyes or on
your cheeks because the powder does not stay on your eyelid—it falls out onto
your face.
Lippie is another term for lipstick. Other
types of lip products, like a lip gloss or lip stain, can also be referred to
as lippies.
When you hit pan on a product you can see the
bottom of the pan that is holding the product. You can see that I have hit pan
on this Sonia Kashuk eye shadow, as evidenced by the appearance of the metal
bottom (or pan) that the product sits on.
While
hitting pan can be exciting (and very hard to do), experiencing hard pan is not a happy occasion. Ever
have a powder product that feels hard on the top, or like there is a film
preventing you from accessing the product? That’s known as hard pan. I’m not
exactly sure why it happens (nor is Google), but my guess is that the product
dries out if not used regularly. Whatever the reason hard pan occurs, it is a
pain in the neck. You can remedy hard pan by scraping off the hard layer. If
the product is old and develops hard pan you may want to chuck it.
Next, onto
the lines—tightline and waterline. To tightline
means to put product (usually a dark eyeliner) onto the inner rim of your upper
eyelid, just below your upper lash line. To put something into your waterline means you put product
(usually a dark eyeliner or a brightening one) onto the inner rim of your lower
eyelid, just above your lower lash line. Both help achieve a more finished look
and make your lashes appear fuller. Adding shimmery eyeliner (I like Milani’s
Shadow Eyez eyeshadow pencil in 03 Champagne Toast) to your waterline helps
brighten up your eye area. When you apply a liner to your tightline or
waterline, pay attention to whether the liner travels to places it shouldn’t
(e.g., your eye or your dark tightline liner ends up covering up your brighter
waterline liner) and if the liner fades throughout the day.
Contouring is using bronzer to define your
face to give you a chiseled appearance. When you darken something it recedes
and when you lighten something it pops out. The typical place to contour is in
the hollows of your cheeks—this lets your cheekbones pop as below your
cheekbones recedes. You can also contour the sides of your nose and under your
chin to make them appear smaller/thinner. You usually want to use a more
gray-toned matte bronzer and not one with shimmer so that your face doesn’t
look overly done up.
Strobing is the highlighter’s response to
contouring and is the “new thing” right now. There is every day
highlighting—like on your cheekbones, brow bones and inner corners of your
eyes—and then there is strobing. Not only do you use more product with strobing
as compared to normal highlighting, but you really go to town with where you
highlight—down the center of your nose, above your brows, above and under your
cupid’s bow, in lines on your cheeks (imagine cat whiskers), and more! Obviously,
you blend in the highlight so that you don’t look like you have a bunch of
glitter on your face. The effect is meant to be very glowy and lit from within.
To de-pot a product means to take it out
of its original packaging, but keep it in the metal (or whatever type) of
pan it comes in. To the right, you can see I’m de-potting my PIXI by Petra Beauty
Bronzer in Summertime (from my May ipsy Glam Bag). Sometimes you can just pull a product out of the
packaging and sometimes it takes some coaxing with something like tweezers. If
that still doesn’t work, you can bake the product on parchment paper and a
cookie sheet at 200-350°F to loosen up the glue holding the pan to the
packaging as suggested by the instructions that came with my Z-Palette.
And to
answer the question that just popped into your head, a Z-Palette is an empty makeup palette that you can store your
de-potted products in. You can see my PIXI bronzer that has been de-potted and placed in this Z-Palette, along with other products.
The bottom of the palette is magnetized so if your de-potted product is in a metal pan it should stick to the palette. If not, my Z-Palette came with metal pieces you can adhere to the bottom of a product to make it stick to the Z-Palette.
I hope you
found this helpful! Let me know if there are other beauty terms you would like
defined.
Disclaimer:
All products are purchased by me or my lovely husband unless otherwise noted in
the post. All opinions are 100% honest and my own. I do not provide positive
reviews for payment. Products that work for me may not necessarily work for
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