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The "Mama Never Told Me" Thread
sKePTiKal:
Ha-Ha.... Erin... I WISH I was 40-ish!! Try 55. However... for whatever reason, both hubs & I look youngish for our age. In my case, I'm tall enough to carry my middle-age spread reasonably well (tho I want it gone) and the freckles just automatically remind people of a mischievious little kid.
After I replied to NLS, I experimented with liquid liner (once) and tried to take a better look at my eye lid shape. It's not as easy as it sounds to get a thin line! (even though one of things I was really good at as an artist was linework...) I only heard the "hooded eyelid" description last year, when I went to a new eye doctor for glasses. So... artists study anatomy in about as much detail as medical students. The detail I omitted in my last description is that my upper eyelid bulges & droops - so much so that in the center of my eye, the lower lid - below the crease - is covered up. My eyes weren't always this way; when I look at pictures of myself pre-trauma, the eye structure was normal... this showed up after the trauma... for whatever reason. Maybe it would have as I got older anyway and the trauma was irrelevant; so that's beside the point.
So part of the reason liner doesn't "look right" to me is that it's not a continuous line; it's interrupted by this upper eyelid. I think I'm going to have to try some trompe l'oeill - faking it - or something. Thanks for all your links!! I need all the references I can get while I think about this. I never heard of lightening mascasa - it goes on dark at the root & gets lighter at the end of the lashes? Hmm... that by itself might give me the emphasis I need at the edge of my beady little, deep set eyes. Since coloring my hair, I've lost some of the sharp contrast on my face - not a bad thing, really; I look "softer" than before. But my eyes really get lost behind glasses, which I guess is why I'm obsessing on this. That and I'm really kinda excited about having the time & permission (self) to play with "girly" things again! Thanks a LOT Erin!
Redhead Erin:
I meant lengtheningmascara--to make your lashes longer!
Maybe you should skip the liner entirely and just use mascara, which will not be interrupted like liner would. You might also try to get a little depth on the outer 1/3 of the lid, by using 2 shadows--pink and rose, gold and bronze, etc. Put the lighter one on all over then use a smaller brush (flat, 1/2 inch wide, with a rounded edge) to put the darker one on the outer 1/3 of the lid. You can put an extra cost on the outer corner of your lashes too, to emphasize the outer corner of the eye.
Also, if you are lacking definition in your face, try using some eyebrow pencil. Get one that is just a little darker than your hair, and apply it in little sketch-lines from the inside of the brow out.
I should have told you, as an artist you know brushes are everything. I use artists brushes. The ones I like best have a clear handle and a little white rubber thing to grip them with, and white bristles. They are very common--you know the kind. If you want, I can tell you the exact size and shape of all of them. They are FAR better than most makeup brushes you can buy at the drugstore and also less expensive and easier to manage.
Guest:
Ladies, I've enjoyed reading the make up tips!
I hope you can access this link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/nov/18/sali-hughes-red-lipstick?newsfeed=true
I spent a happy 15 minutes the other day watching the video in this article all about how to wear red lipstick. What a treat.
Guess what's on my shopping list... :D
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Meh:
Mop the floor:
Well I'm too lazy to make a big stink about my communal floor cleaning duties. I sweep it. I don't mop it but I see other people sweep first and then mop and that looks like it does a pretty darn good job. Do you sweep first?
I think damn that floor is clean what is the secret? Maybe some women have some special kung-fu ability to magnetize the dirt through sheer will and make it attach itself onto the cleaning implement.
Paint particles of martial art masters sumi drawings are molecularly alligned all in the same way opposed to non-martial art masters molecules are not aligned when looked at under a microscope. It might just be possible that some women's cleaning skills are at the level of a martial art masters skills and the dirt literally lines up to connect positive dirt molecule with the negative end of the mop molecules.
My cleaning kung-fu is not that strong personally.
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