FOTD: Tea & Coffee (5/18/11)
Another attempt at Weeds-ish makeup. Still too subtle on the cheeks, I think.
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FOTD/Homage: Mary Jane Dealer (5/16/11)
I am pretty obsessed with Weeds right now, and I *love* the makeup they do on Mary Louise Parker – the really natural, but super flushed cheeks? Love it! And running late this morning, I thought it might be a quick and easy look. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, though, so now that I’ve tried it, I think next time it’d be more spot-on with a proper base (I’m thinking dewy, luminous, right?) and a slightly different blush color and a slightly heavier hand. But I was afraid of rocking clown cheeks to work, so this is what I wound up with – not bad. A bit subtler than I usually like for makeup (if it looks too natural, why even bother with the makeup, is my usual thinking) – but like I said, obsessed with Weeds right now, and really wanted to give it a go.
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FOTN: Peaches and Herb (5/14/11)
See how witty I am?! “Peaches and herb”?! Geddit?
FOTD: WTF (5/10/11)
Seriously, what the fuck kind of face am I making here? Crazy. But it’s the only shot I got, so….yeah. Also, “wtf” because I am sooooo not impressed with the color payoff from the Rimmel shadows. Seriously – that’s supposed to be a green?! It swipes on like the palest yellow imaginable, barely noticeable. I think I have one or two more of these quads, but I don’t even know if I want to try them now. Boo. (I guess I could use them as highlights, or for really pale shades, as long as I knew stuff ahead of time like, “this green-looking bugger is actually really pale yellow.”) I wore this to work, and then when we went out in the evening, did a “proper” look that I was much happier with.
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Swatch Sunday, 5/15/11: Jade Rose franken dupe?
Not having Chanel’s Jade Rose, I don’t really know whether this is a true dupe or not, but I don’t much care, because it’s pretty! I love it!
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FOTN: Homage/Mood Makeup (5/6/11)
Went to a show Friday night, after having removed my makeup, taken a nap, freaked out about Skeeter’s foot (more on that later), and then decided to go to the show anyway, even though I was in a pretty foul, dark mood, since I’d been looking forward to it. I just wanted to go get kind of drunk (a rarity for me) and enjoy the bands, and sit on the back porch (the view is lovely, and the door was open so I could hear the bands), but then this fucked-up dude (no, really, his opening salvo was telling me how fucked-up he was on champagne and valium right then) made a skeevy comment about my flame tattoo (that would be the one on my left boob), which is where I realized that we had veered from not-uncomfortable small talk into territory I was too drunk to deal with. So I excused myself to “get another drink” and hid out on the “front porch” of the Pinhook (aka, the bench on the sidewalk), until Greg showed up. And I was drinking Rosemary’s Baby (rosemary syrup, lime, grapefruit juice, and gin – AMAZING), and those suckers are deceptively strong. I had two, and was *blitzed*. Not black-out drunk, but totally unsteady on my feet, in no condition to drive (so I didn’t, I had Greg come get me, and we got the car the next day), and a mite concerned about vomiting a couple times. But didn’t actually puke. Score. And now I know: only ONE Rosemary’s Baby, and that’s my limit. But, dang, they are tasty.
Anyway, so my mood going into this whole thing was…kind of dark and bleak, and so I wanted to put on some makeup to kind of communicate that, let’s say, so that people might be inclined to leave me alone. And then I thought of Aoife’s radass Brody-Dalle-inspired look, and was like, “That’s it!” Black eyes, some dark lips, a bit of a glare, Bob’s my uncle. Not so much, actually, but it warded plenty of people off. (Apparently champagne-and-valium-fueled dudes are impervious, but whatevs.)
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FOTD: Golden peacock? (5/6/11)
I don’t know. I just wanted to use Peacock Lustre, and I thought gold might be pretty with it. I kind of like it, but I kind of don’t, too. Maybe if I’d only put gold on the inner corners, or if I’d used Hi-Fi’s Loser King, or a Fyrinnae gold, instead of Clinique’s Strike It Rich, I’d love it. (Or something a little more *gold* and a little less copper?) But I’m kind of okay with it.
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