Style Waits For No One...

[alivemagdolene]

Being on something of a glamor bender (as opposed to a glamour-bender, which is something I'm always on), due in no small part to meaculpa_g's influence and super fucking rad birthday package (!), I've been wandering through YouTube and have found some fabulous instructional videos, or rather, they found me. I was cruising through some of my favorite '2os

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[alivemagdolene]

I've found the best way for eyebrows (like mine) is to remove as much as possible so it still looks half-way natural (mine grow back like gangbusters, so it's -- a task, all right) and draw the rest in-- my eyebrows are slightly darker than the chick's in the video but about as much there.

Is it wrong to immediately assume that she "sans make-up" actually has at least SOME make-up on? I mean, just because I don't like to be seen without at least a little (out of mercy for those that have to look at me, if nothing else).

I admit, I was agog at the brushes and whatnot. I visited a Sephora and my brother sent me a link about a chick who "undercover" works there to expose how gross it is (their culture of calling the sales floor "on stage" and their uniforms "costumes") and it made me really want to work there for all the free shit and what is apparently decent pay (I always get a chuckle out of people who think $10 hourly in retail is somehow ridiculously low-- I mean, it IS for the job, but good luck getting more than that just about anywhere, at least starting out, as this woman was).

Dammit, now I'm breaking out my Kevyn Aucoin books (that he could make a model look equally like Clark Gable and Carol Lombard is-- mesmerizing).

[meaculpa_g]

I think I have the original Making Faces somewhere, only for the eye candy, mind you, and the genius that was Kevyn Aucion. I was never all that skilled at following directions, and that book is no exception. From what I recall though, most of the looks in that book call for an obscene amount of bronzer, a product I've never quite mastered without looking like an oversized carrot.