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FOTD: Because Poe Wrote On Both (2/18/13)

Thank you, Jasper Fforde, for telling me the answer to that riddle. It’s been bugging me for so long, and now I know. YAY! (Still learning my camera – the eyeshadows were more glimmery in real life than I managed to capture, but that’s all user error. And the specks around my eyes are because the lashes did really well for about six hours, and then they had to be reapplied. And I didn’t notice the eyeliner or mascara specks, whichever they are, until after I’d taken pics.)

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FOTD: Bold yet Gentle Theodora (2/17/13)

Originally, I just wanted to crib from a look Robyn did for a shoot. (It’s seriously gorgeous – y’all should go check out her blog and her fb page.) But then I couldn’t find the Illamasqua lipgloss I wanted, and I decided to use a shadow from the Urban Decay Oz Theodora palette, and then it kind of detoured into this. Not twins, not sisters, maybe cousins? Because the eye is still kind of similar, in idea if not in execution. And I also sorted out the macro setting on my camera – and discovered that the lighting in the living room is inferior to the lighting in the bathroom. And now I know.

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FOTD: Bob’s your uncle (11/14/12)

Okay, in the category of “neutral, more subtle, for me, looks,” points for a “work-appropriate” lipstick, here. I feel like Good to Go is very office-friendly. (Apparently, it’s also what Kristen Stewart wore in…a Twilight movie? Maybe the first one? Maybe all of them? I don’t know the specifics, I just know she wore it as Bella at some point, and the lipstick got a bit of press out of it. I picked it up because 1-it’s kind of nude-ish, and at that point, man, I was *trying* to get outside my comfort zone and try nudes, even though I’ve got nuder nudes than this currently that I’m totes comfortable with, but this was a while ago, and 2-yeah, honestly, I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.)

However, let’s be honest: points off for the stars, because really. Not subtle. Although I lurrrrrrrve them. It’s ridic. I’m managing to get at least two uses out of each stencil, and part of me cannot believe I fell for such a ridiculous marketing scheme from MAC, and the rest of me is like, “Shit – can I dupe this with a papercraft punch and some tape? Or had I better go ahead and buy backups while they’ve got them?!?!” What I REALLY want, though, like, BADLY, BADLY want? Is some of those cray cray beauty mark stencils Grayson Hall (love her!) wore on Dark Shadows, when she was Countess Natalie duPres. Like card suits and shit. I want small but crazy “beauty marks.” I want beauty marks that don’t look remotely natural. Also? Real talk? I’m kind of loving these stars so much that I’m like, “….if you got them tattooed on, they’d be there EVERY DAY without having to PUT THEM ON.”

I’ve also been giving some serious thought to plastic surgery (“fixing” my upper lip – YES I KNOW IT’S FINE, JESUS, IT’S A PET PEEVE; and making my boobs the same size), which…ew, who the fuck am I, and who stole my body? What? I don’t even know. But these thoughts. Ugh. So far, I’m staying away from the plastic surgery and the face tattoos. So far. (Also, these frown lines! They’re not terrible, but for real: when my face is completely relaxed, and I’m actually pretty content and shit, I look like I’m frowning and mad. Because of the combo frown lines and longer, fatter lower lip that pulls my upper lip down into a frown. I’m way overthinking this shit, to a gross degree. Ugh, stop.)

Back to “grading” this as a “neutral, more subtle” look, though. I fucking LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this palette, for reals. But, uh. Yeah. About this “Fashion” combo. NOT SUBTLE. (In real life! In the photos, it looks okay. But in real life, it was like, “DAMN, that’s some makeup on your face.” Pretty makeup, but “DAMN!” nonetheless.) Granted, it might have just been me being hella heavy-handed, but this look, while pretty, is a bit loud. Luckily, still totes “appropriate” for my work, since I don’t have to wear, like, suits and “office appropriate” makeup and hair, and pantyhose and shit like that. Have I mentioned that I love my work?
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FOTD: Remembrance is futile (11/13/12)

First of all, anyone who doesn’t believe in climate change is just WRONG. This is what I had to wear going to, and leaving from, work, because it was like 42:

And this is what I wore the rest of the day, and sweated in because the leggings were too much, because it was like 75ish:

BOO. I should not have to wear so many outer layers, and then have to take them off and keep up with them. Not into it. As you probably guessed from my expression in that second picture. That’s my “Not impressed. Hmph.” face.

Here’s my makeup:

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