(1) I'm so glad that many of you enjoyed the makeup post! After I published it I thought it might go way beyond navel gazing to burn several hundred words on my makeup routine followed by pictures of myself with my eyes closed. I mean, I love a good how to/product review post, but I've also read every eyeshadow review on the internet in the last 3 months, so I might not be the best judge.
I did get a few follow-up questions on step 6, so I took a few freaky pictures of my eyes open really wide to show you where the black liquid eyeliner goes, but they looked like the cover of a horror movie, so here's this one, recreating how I use the fan brush to push the gel eyeliner up and under my upper lashes (yep, under).
Basically just fill in that skin-colored line between your eyeball and your eyelashes. It looks amazing. Brightens the whites of the eyes and gives you a gorgeous line without making your eyelids look heavy or small because it's under the lashes instead of on top.
(2) Are you watching Daredevil on Netflix? You should be (TLo says so too). It is absolutely fantastic. Great writing, great casting, great acting, great story arc... it is so deeply enjoyable. JP and I are on episode 11 of 13 and we can't stop watching it. The only thing that almost makes me want to slow down is knowing season 2 (due out in 2016) hasn't even started filming yet. JP and I enjoy adventure and comic book-type movies because it's the rare cross-section of our interests. I like action and fiction (rom coms included); he likes action and war biopic boring and depressing non-fiction (rom coms for sure not included). But JP also used to read comic books. I didn't, so each story is a brand new world for me, and given the books I read, supernatural powers and enhanced abilities seem normal.
My favorite things about Daredevil so far, besides the fantastic writing, casting, and acting, is the story-building, the non-stylized violence (I mean, there's violence and fighting, but I like that it's more real, people rarely drop out after one punch, and you see the after-effects of it. If someone is in a fight, they're hurting worse for it the next day, as they would be.). I don't know anything about Daredevil in the comic book world, so it's all new to me, and I'm enjoying the heck out of watching the first episode unfold. (And if you're a review-nut like me, the TLo reviews are great.)
(3) Sometimes Claire asks me to take pictures of her. Like tonight before bed. I always comply.
I love that her high heels never match.
(4) Cora turned 18 months old yesterday. We're halfway to 2. I have a lot of feelings about that.
Rather than indulge in them, let me tell you about her. At 18 months, she fears nothing and regrets less.
She loves fiercely; lives loudly; yells louder.
She is strongly (STRONGLY) opinionated and surprisingly sweet.
She is bald and tall with rapid land speed.
She loves danger, her big kids, toothbrushes, purses, dancing, kisses, books (VERY specific books), and breaking rules. Also, butternut squash, and throwing all foods that aren't butternut squash on the ground.
She does not love age guidelines, safety measures, and rules. Fruit (weird). People who are in her way.
Good gracious we love her so.
LOVE Daredevil!! I hate comic book movies and I love this show. It's a breath of frsh air, so creative and well done and does something new with the genre. Plus...Matt is super hot. Super Hot. That's all it takes for me sometimes. I could do with less violence. I have to close my eyes...a lot.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't mind violence, but I don't seek it out or need it in my shows either. I do appreciate that if it's going to be violent, it's at least realistic about it. You feel the punches, know they hurt, see the impact of it... I prefer that to pretending like running around beating up people won't bother either party the next day. But yeah Matt is crazy hot. Everyone is winning while we're watching this show.
DeleteThere's a word for applying eyeliner to the inner rim of your eyelid: tightlining. It makes my eyes look smaller, but I really like how it looks on other people!
ReplyDeleteYay! That's so much better than the tortuous way I tried to describe it :). And now I'm googling more techniques and details. Makeup is so fun!
DeleteThanks for the picture demonstration! Just a last question, do you apply the gel eyeliner directly to the brush and then push it under your eye? I could do my own research, but I'm also the person who does not want to spend the 5-10 minutes it would take to do my own make up routine... :)
ReplyDeleteHa! Yes, just dip your brush (this cheaper Sigma brush would also be perfect for the job) in the gel eyeliner (make sure whichever one you get is water proof! you can also use a pencil for this, I just find that to be harder), maybe wipe it a little on a wash cloth or tissue if it looks like it's too thick on the brush and then open your eyes wide and "push" the brush with the gel liner up underneath the lashes. Do it all the across the lash line, end to end. It makes your lashes look like they start a few millimeters below the lash line as opposed to on top of it.
Delete(Also, in case you mess up a few times at first. I've directly poked the bobbi brown gel liner into my eyes and it just blinks off. I've also gotten on my contacts multiple times which is more annoying because I have to take out the contact and scrub it clean, but then I can pop it back in without ill effect.)
LOVE Daredevil!! I hate comic book movies and I love this show. It's a breath of frsh air, so creative and well done and does something new with the genre. Plus...Matt is super hot. Super Hot. That's all it takes for me sometimes. I could do with less violence. I have to close my eyes...a lot.
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