If you follow me on Facebook you will notice that I've been posting more photos of my face, done up with make-up. Now if you know me, you'll know that makeup is not something that I wear too often. So why now?
Well, I'm doing it for a boy. I know, it sounds ridiculous, but I figure that it wouldn't kill me to try and look nice for the man when he's home. I'm making an effort.
Ok, it's more than an effort. It's a bit of a makeover, but if I'm gonna do something, I'm gonna do it right, and with smoky eyes!
One thing I know he always likes is eyelashes. It's the oldest trick in the book, batting the eyelashes and all that girly shit. However, there's a reason it's the oldest trick in the book, cause it tends to work. My own eyelashes are horribly short so for me to have any eyelash game, I have to wear fake ones. I have never been great at putting them on, so I went to Professor YouTube and watched a video or two, or three. Or probably twenty. However, now I am pretty darn good at it and I can bat my eyes along with the rest of them.
The problem with Prof. YouTube is that its not like in the old days where a magazine would show you how to do it and that's how you do it. Oh no, there's 100 videos of different ways to do it. There are options. Techniques. Looks!! Now I have to consider what LOOK I'm going for, and it's more than just "day or night." So the research takes time.
Also in the process, I'm learning about my face. Learning where my cheekbones are, and where I want them to APPEAR to be. Contouring is a thing!! And hooded eyes. I have slightly hooded eyes. I didn't know that- so there's a different way to wear eyeshadow for hooded eyes. The lessons are endless. Don't know what hooded eyes are? There's a youtube channel. Stephanie Lange. She'll tell you all about it. Also, I love listening to her Aussie voice.
It's no wonder kids are so spoiled these days. There's so many options!!! In my youth you put your foundation up on with your fingers, or maybe one of those wedge sponges. Now you have silicon applicators, these egg shaped sponges, the wedges, brushes, or your fingers. How do you choose, well, apparently it depends on what kind of LOOK you want. Again with the look.
I found out today that while putting on foundation with a brush FEELS damn fancy, it doesn't give you that blended smooth look that the sponge does. My foundation today looked very thick. However that is also because I forgot to use my primer. And primer! That's another new thing I didn't know about. Maybe when I was young and my skin was naturally dewey and fresh I didn't have to worry about it. but now, the primer helps keep my skin moist and will avoid your foundation looking dry or thick. Maybe because I'm older and my skin is NOT so fresh and dewey anymore. I need things like primer.
And I have so many new brushes, each are used for something different. I am going to need to label them.
I admit though, that I don't hate the way I look. I think maybe I look closer to 40 than 50. Not that I'm trying to look younger. I have no illusions that I'm fooling anybody.
My next thing is about my brows. I don't know what to do with them. One seems higher than the other, and I don't know if I should fill it in higher, or just dance with the brows I came with. Also should I draw them in to line up with the corners of my eyes? Should I use brown, a soft black? It can get out of hand fast.
More research.
However I realized today that posting selfies on Facebook like a teenager makes me look like, well, a teenager. So I am going to stop that. I can do that on Instagram and look and feel less ridiculous.
Also I can put pictures here, cause it's my blog after all.
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