March 21, 2016
Let me just backtrack a little to my history of makeup usage. And I guess I've mentioned it a little.
I've rarely felt the necessity of wearing makeup, and only started to because I thought it was something I was supposed to do. But I don't like taking the time for putting it on, and I don't like having to wash it off at night. In the early days of liquid foundation, I didn't like the feel of it. And since I didn't spend much time with it, any effort I spent usually didn't have great results. So I felt like, "Why try?"
Now I'm getting old, and makeup makes more sense. I know I was wearing it as a 20-something to go special places and look somewhat decent-- and apparently I was wearing enough to snag a husband at some point. :) But then when that husband says he doesn't care much for makeup, my motivation goes way down. Who am I trying to look good for?
That's the trick. What is the REAL motivation? Well, my motivation has changed. I've been focusing all along on looking good for the world, to the world. Which, basically, is a recipe for failure. Not everyone is going to accept you for the way you look. Not everyone is going to think you're beautiful. And in the end, it REALLY doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It's what you think. And for me-- it's what God thinks of me.
My motivation now comes because of who I represent. I want to represent my best self. I want to represent my good family and the family names. I want to represent my church. I want to represent my Savior, Jesus Christ, and my Father in Heaven.
The basic sense of that representation includes basic hygiene. Taking care of the body I have been given. Showering, brushing my hair, clipping my fingernails and toenails, being somewhat presentable. The next step includes additional grooming-- plucking my eye brows, doing something with my hair. And then the final step (in my opinion) is using makeup and spending time to make my hair look good/better than a pony tail.
Does it really make a difference? Or even a big difference? Maybe not to most because of the face I've been blessed with. But it makes a difference to me, because I'm giving additional effort to do the best I can with what I have.
But I'm probably never going to be one of those people who never go out in public without makeup or doing their hair. I'm still okay with the basics. :)
April 21, 2015
Not sure this is one of the better pics of me, but it sure is better than what I've had on this page. I needed to get something else here anyway. I do have the makeup on, so I think it's going ok. I'll keep getting used to putting it on. :)
January 23, 2015
Working with Assymetry
I have decided that I just cannot take a good selfie. Or one that I like anyway. I see myself in the mirror and I think "not bad". And then I take a picture of myself and I think..."what?" I've heard before that what makes a person aesthetically beautiful is that their facial features are more symmetrical than most. As for me-- I'm pretty sure my eyes are two different sizes (and one has started to wander like my mom's), my nose is a bit crooked and disproportional in size to my face (in my opinion yet pretty blatant in fact), and my face shape is interesting. Some personal observations, anyway.
I'm sure everyone is their own harshest critic, but I just have to say....I'm not so photogenic. But that's ok. I'm just trying to share my experiment in makeup. So obviously I wanted to demonstrate without and with makeup. I'm trying out the Younique brand makeup. So far it's pretty simple and fun. I'm getting used to the 3D Mascara. I didn't want to go too extreme with makeup, but probably anything would be drastic compared to the non-existent makeup state I had been going through. As mentioned, I pretty much only used mascara. I think the pressed powder foundation works pretty good at smoothing out my skin tone. I still don't quite know how to do eye shadow and eye liner, but I'll keep practicing. I really don't like lipstick, but the colored lip gloss stuff I got seems to be ok.
Whatever the visual outcome of my trial and error use of makeup, I have felt a lot better about myself. Not because I think I all of a sudden look amazing. In fact, I kind of feel awkward wearing makeup. But I like that I'm making more efforts and taking more time to TRY to represent myself in a more beautiful way. :)
January 2, 2015
The latest with facial improvements is that I have purchased new makeup. (Well, it was basically a Christmas gift I asked for from my mom.) <3
I have had a fairly non-existent relationship with makeup. When I was getting
into it somewhat during high school, I didn't really understand what I was supposed to be doing. And I continued to blunder through it in college. I remember the foundation seeming awful thick and not necessarily matching my complexion. I had visits to makeup counters in department stores and had them match the tones of makeup to my skin and I would purchase some. I had advice from others around me who were better at makeup than me. What I didn't have was the patience and desire to become more comfortable with it and better at applying it.
into it somewhat during high school, I didn't really understand what I was supposed to be doing. And I continued to blunder through it in college. I remember the foundation seeming awful thick and not necessarily matching my complexion. I had visits to makeup counters in department stores and had them match the tones of makeup to my skin and I would purchase some. I had advice from others around me who were better at makeup than me. What I didn't have was the patience and desire to become more comfortable with it and better at applying it.
Call it laziness or whatever, but I just haven't really been fond of having to apply makeup. And especially to having to clean it off every night. It has seemed like a less-than-noble use of my time, even though it might help some things. I have been content to only use mascara at the most, and that's been getting me by I guess. It probably hasn't help that my husband isn't a big fan of makeup (which is fine with me :), because I really don't have much motivation for wearing it.
Well, now that I'm getting older and it's showing more I guess I'm a little more motivated. I'm still fairly comfortable enough with myself to be okay with my face...it's just that I would like to present myself a little better. It's not to impress anyone (because makeup is not going to make me a supermodel in any reasonable way), but just to show that I value myself enough to look the best I can. Of course most of what radiates from a person comes from within and how they take care of themselves through diet, hygiene and exercise. However, for me, all that needs a little help from adding just a reasonable amount of makeup.
For my first experiment, I will be trying out the brand "Younique." I have good friends who are behind this company, so I have reason to believe it will be a good product.
Here are links for their business:
I will post pictures when I get the products and start using them. Wish me luck! :)
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