I use Pinterest weekly, I think I remember mentioning awhile ago that since I haven't been home in so long that Pinerest helps ground me. It makes me wishful for happy things in the future. One of my boards on that website is Hair/Makeup. I don't have a creative gene in me when it comes to either of those things. Mascara and my hair down or in a ponytail at most. In 30 years I've never owned a curling iron or curled my hair on my own with someone else's. I learned to put on eye shadow at a Mary Kay party late in my college career. I really, really wasn't interested. I'm low key style-wise and my Mom didn't let me wear makeup when I was young. Thinking back, I think that was a great idea. She also gave me a piece of advice that I've lived by. She told me that when girls wear make up all the time and they go out and get dressed up it doesn't seem as fancy because that's already how you are all the time anyway. But when you don't wear any, or very little, and you get dressed up and put some on it's more noticeable and festive. I agree with that point of view, but then all of that kind of bit me in the ass because I didn't end up knowing how to do it at all.
New Years for 2012-2013 I had a super awesome outfit and M and I were going out clubbing and it was going to be great but I knew that my glitzy outfit needed some awesome makeup. So I pulled up my trusty Hair/Makeup board (none of which I had ever tried out previously) and tried to master this look:
It. looked. AWESOME. We went out, had a great time and I was super happy with the results. I posted pictures on Facebook of our night out and within 5 minutes of doing so I get a text from my very fashionable best friend that read "Holy smoke-eye gone bad." Um, so apparently I didn't do the picture right. Sure enough I had put the blue too high up on my eyelid and the black too close to my eyebrow and I basically looked like a clown. And sure enough, I took the pictures OFF of Facebook. Sad face.
Not learning my lesson, a few months ago for a Halloween party I did the same thing but with a different look. Saw pictures afterwards. No good. For my final bad idea, prior to this epiphany to change something M and I had a vow renewal while his kids were with us for Christmas and I attempted a hair style I had never even practiced an hour before our ceremony. Whoops. Good thing though, that one turned out really well. So, thank God for that.
All of this got me thinking: maybe in my spare time I should actually try these suggestions and see what works and what I'm doing wrong before I want to go out and accidentally make a fool out of myself. So that's what I've been doing. I have been going through my board pictures and each day after work before I shower, so I can rinse off whatever mess I create and pretend like it didn't happen, I try out a style to see what it looks like. Right now I have wet hair and I have them twisted like Miley Cyrus (as much as I hate to admit it) and letting them dry to see what kind of heat-less curl they can give me. I tried another smokey-eye look before my shower and I think it turned out well, but I don't have make-up remover and the shower spread it around so imagine the image of me with Miley Cyrus hair and raccoon eyes. Thank God my husband isn't here and I have no plans to socialize with anyone today. Here's to a New Year :-)
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