topic Re: BIC Vernacular in Beauty Confidential

BIC Vernacular

danielledanielle — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:35:34 GMT

One thing I love is when you found your people, and there's a language. In BIC, we have a lingo, but what is it exactly? Some of it is personal terms, internet speak, abbreviations, social media terms, etc. I was just remarking with @Sunnysmom the plural of blush, and it got me thinking about what we all call different things in beauty and on the boards.

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My own vernacular here:

Blush Buffet - An assortment of blushes, typically occurs in a haul, with a purchase of 3 or more

The Fit aka "Fits/Fit Check" - Derived from social media referring to wardrobe/outfit choice and how it looks. Here, it has become something similar, but different use since the Capsule Challenges...as @itsfi kindly summarized it "refers to the bag or component that will hold the week's makeup and, specifically, does all the makeup for the week's capsule fit into the bag / storage component."

What are some of your learned and loved linguistic lists?

Re: BIC Vernacular

Sunnysmom — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:24:10 GMT

Genius as usual @danielledanielle and just the person to create this!! 🙌🏻🤩 Love it! 😘🥰

Re: BIC Vernacular

danielledanielle — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 21:08:53 GMT

Thanks @Sunnysmom , is there anything you can add?

Re: BIC Vernacular

CynthieLu — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 02:13:48 GMT

Awesome Thread idea @danielledanielle 😁

Oh gosh soo many but I can't think of any on the spot huuuuummm.....

(Not limited to BIC, but used here frequently)

BF - Sometimes referring to Black Friday sales

GWP - gift with purchase

FOILS - The little testers/mini's of products that come in little foil packets

UNICORN- some thing rare, like a rare find or coveted item

HG - Holy Grail, an amazing to you life changing product 🤩

Re: BIC Vernacular

sister13 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 22:31:19 GMT

Fun! We often abbreviate brand/artist names - normally post the name somewhere in the post or thread, but I’m thinking of:

PMG - Pat McGrath

ND - Natasha Denona

CT - Charlotte Tilbury

TF - TOM FORD (or maybe Too Faced)

HG - Can be Hourglass if not Holy Grail, which was already mentioned

ABH - Anastasia Beverly Hills

BB - Bobbi Brown or maybe Bumble and Bumble

DM - Danessa Myricks

MUFE - MAKE UP FOR EVER

DDG - Dr. Dennis Gross

SDJ -Sol de Janeiro

SC -Sephora Collection

YTTP -Youth to the People

YSL - Yves St. Laurent

There are more, but these jumped out at me! @danielledanielle

Re: BIC Vernacular

sister13 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 22:42:55 GMT

I was also just thinking of some other words we use, like lippie, spoolie, doe foot, wand. I used to hate lippie, but just seems easier than typing out lipstick every time!

Also, we have so many descriptors for finishes that many non makeup enthusiasts might shake their heads at, like:

Radiant

Glowy

Shimmery

Glittery

Shiny

Matte

Semi-matte

Satin

@danielledanielle

Re: BIC Vernacular

Titian06 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 22:56:14 GMT

In perfume, there are "notes" or the items that make the perfume smell nice as opposed to "ingredients" that make up the content. In addition, notes are broken into

Top - What you smell first

Middle - What you smell next

Base - What comes last/lingers

@danielledanielle

Re: BIC Vernacular

Sunnysmom — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 22:59:40 GMT

I’m thinking @danielledanielle ! When they occur I’ll pop on! So funny when you try to conjure them up. You. Can. Not. 😭😂 I’m at lunch. Perhaps the 🥂 will inspire me! 😆

Re: BIC Vernacular

JoSometimes — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 01:16:34 GMT

@CynthieLu I thought foils were another word for sheet masks because sometimes they come in foil-esque packaging! 🫠🫠🫠

Re: BIC Vernacular

JoSometimes — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 01:22:46 GMT

Everything I’ve learned has already be mentioned by others. There was a bit of a learning curve with the vernacular when I started participating more in BIC (The teacher in me loves that you used the word “vernacular” @danielledanielle!)

Like @sister13, I didn’t like lippie at first, but everyone kept using it and it is so much quicker to type! And sometimes I’m not sure if someone used a lipstick, balm, gloss, so something else just by looking at a photo, so lippie is a nice, safe, generic way to describe lip colour of some sort.

Re: BIC Vernacular

danielledanielle — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:10:19 GMT

Yes, the many abbreviations, for a while I was like Moof (MUFE), what's...ohhhhhh...ohhhhhh @sister13

Re: BIC Vernacular

danielledanielle — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:13:38 GMT

Ha, also true @sister13 , don't forget demi-matte as well

Re: BIC Vernacular

danielledanielle — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:17:25 GMT

@JoSometimes, thanks! And same about the learning curve! I figured having a sort of impromptu glossary could help.

Interesting, I never thought about the term lippie as an encompassing category, but it makes sense.

Re: BIC Vernacular

CynthieLu — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:17:46 GMT

Oooh maybe it's a double term @JoSometimes I think I did hear it in the masking thread and was thrown off because I didn't understand how it was being used 😋

Re: BIC Vernacular

danielledanielle — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:38:20 GMT

@CynthieLuand @JoSometimes , it could be a mask that comes in a foil sample. Like I remember having Glamglow's supermud as a foil sample, and a couple of Glow Recipe ones.

Re: BIC Vernacular

sister13 — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 03:49:00 GMT

Oh yes, and I also thought of luminous! @danielledanielle

Re: BIC Vernacular

danielledanielle — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 04:04:37 GMT

Oh yeah, fragrance education here is 🤌🏼🤌🏼 @Titian06

Re: BIC Vernacular

WinglessOne — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:00:55 GMT

Love this idea, @danielledanielle. 🙂

A couple quickies no one’s mentioned yet, in the context of hauls/orders:

DS = deluxe sample, not to be confused with foil (though some folks do use "foil" and "DS" interchangeably)

FS = full size

Smaste = probably my only lingo contribution. If you ever see me write that, I mean "smell-taste," aka the annoying experience of a lipstick being so fragranced, you can literally taste the fragrance—and I don’t mean lipsticks that are meant to be flavored.

I'd list a bunch for nails, but that's basically a nail polish/tools/techniques dictionary and there are plenty of those online. A new-to-polish friend did recently ask me what's the difference between jelly and crelly... eh, maybe I'll come back later with a nails-related list, unless someone else like @RGbrown beats me to it. 😄

Re: BIC Vernacular

WinglessOne — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:10:43 GMT

@sister13 It's kinda funny that "PMG" has stuck here, because the brand's acronym is really PML for Pat McGrath Labs. But I've never written it as PML because I always shorten the brand name to Pat McGrath in my head, and then I inappropriately split Pat's last name into an acronym. 😂 For some reason, I've never been able to make myself write "PML" instead of "PMG."

Speaking of Pat: some folks still call her Mother, a nickname she got from various models she worked on backstage. So if anyone sees someone refer to "Mother" in a Pat McGrath related thread, that's who they're talking about.

Re: BIC Vernacular

WinglessOne — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 05:13:26 GMT

@danielledanielle 🤣 Once upon a time, a friend and I may have had a hilarious drunk debate about whether MUFE is pronounced "moof" or "moofie."