You can find a wealth of knowledge in magazines like Lucky when it comes to clothes and where you can get them on any budget. It just happens to be the budget standard of an already working woman. I guess college student budgets would only prompt a magazine of ideas of how you can use things that you find at the thrift store. Really, even the lower cost items would still be a stretch sometimes.
As such, being a college student and having to budget money and clothing (for space's sake) drives me to develop a clothing budget. Texas Tax Free Weekend is upon me and I've waited until the last day to fully utilize it at the Prime Outlets, 3rd best place to shop in the world according to The View. I can only spend so much and I'm putting it towards what's lacking in my wardrobe.
- pencil skirts
- summer slacks
- blouses
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Face Paint
I've had issues with make-up for a while. I've always felt that it was used to temporarily mask problems oppose to fix a problem...I think this view might still hold. I've never thought of it as enhancing good looks, maybe deemphasizing the bad would be more correct. It's not like you naturally enhance your blue eye lid.
I've felt that telling people they look good as the result of makeup is...kind of off. It's not different from having your hair styled. It should be more like..."I like what you did with your face."
Despite all this, I've come to the conclusion that makeup is a part of the presentation package and regardless of how impeccable one's style is, clothes aren't enough.
As shown in the previous blog, I went to my friend's wedding recently and I was planning for it a good while in advance - shoes, hair, the dress. I'd been practicing make up for a good few weeks prior to the wedding only to have my cousin's boyfriend do my make up professionally.
Make up is expensive when you don't know what you're doing. I'm finding there's this mad tendency to buy everything in every version possible to see what works (i.e. eyeliner). It's been rather financially draining since I've developed a penchant for MAC cosmetics. Makeup Art Cosmetics seemed to fit my sentiments on make-up. Eye-shadow application was the hardest thing for me to grasp.
I think my best recommendation is finding what fits you in terms of makeup. Experiment with lower cost makeup before buying higher end versions.
For me:
MAC's Studio Fix, eyeshadow, blush, lip gloss.
Formerly lacking a brain for make up, eyeshadow was amazingly difficult for me to apply and I have many pictures of myself looking like a raccoon. For lining my eyes, I tried everything from liquid liner, to this thing that looks like a marker, to a crayon, to a pencil, to eyeshadow. I think liquid liner is fun, but I favor using eye shadow as liner.
- to avoid having raccoon eyes, I use a small angled brush to apply a line of eye shadow, I brush it out a little. Sponge applicators are a little better for eye lid application and I use a pencil brush to get shadow into the crease. After lining, I use a little of the medium shade (assuming the darkest shade is lining and the lightest shade is on my lid) brushed out slightly from the liner.
I've felt that telling people they look good as the result of makeup is...kind of off. It's not different from having your hair styled. It should be more like..."I like what you did with your face."
Despite all this, I've come to the conclusion that makeup is a part of the presentation package and regardless of how impeccable one's style is, clothes aren't enough.
As shown in the previous blog, I went to my friend's wedding recently and I was planning for it a good while in advance - shoes, hair, the dress. I'd been practicing make up for a good few weeks prior to the wedding only to have my cousin's boyfriend do my make up professionally.
Make up is expensive when you don't know what you're doing. I'm finding there's this mad tendency to buy everything in every version possible to see what works (i.e. eyeliner). It's been rather financially draining since I've developed a penchant for MAC cosmetics. Makeup Art Cosmetics seemed to fit my sentiments on make-up. Eye-shadow application was the hardest thing for me to grasp.
I think my best recommendation is finding what fits you in terms of makeup. Experiment with lower cost makeup before buying higher end versions.
For me:
MAC's Studio Fix, eyeshadow, blush, lip gloss.
Formerly lacking a brain for make up, eyeshadow was amazingly difficult for me to apply and I have many pictures of myself looking like a raccoon. For lining my eyes, I tried everything from liquid liner, to this thing that looks like a marker, to a crayon, to a pencil, to eyeshadow. I think liquid liner is fun, but I favor using eye shadow as liner.
- to avoid having raccoon eyes, I use a small angled brush to apply a line of eye shadow, I brush it out a little. Sponge applicators are a little better for eye lid application and I use a pencil brush to get shadow into the crease. After lining, I use a little of the medium shade (assuming the darkest shade is lining and the lightest shade is on my lid) brushed out slightly from the liner.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
An every day thing?
Here's something that you don't see very often on my blog, and even more so, something not seen very often in real life:
A picture of me. A picture of me all gussied up. I was at the wedding of my former roommate for the past 3 years. It's quite understandable that I wouldn't look like this everyday. It's not like I go to weddings everyday, god forbid.
Aside from using this picture to illustrate a distantly related point, I guess I can let a few things out:
- I like Tracy Reese. My little sister developed into a Betsey Johnson girl. I felt Tracy Reese went more with my flow.
- I like cocktail hats. I think they make great collectors items. They're timeless for anyone 20+
- I like vintage and vintage inspired pieces, as seen by the cocktail hat. I got that purse at a vintage store near campus.
My make up was professionally done at MAC cosmetics. My cousin's boyfriend works there. My cousins commented on the quality of the make up job on the MAC workers, they were done up as elaborately as me, but what was more surprising is that they actually do make themselves up like that every day. It takes a little extra effort, about 30 minutes of extra effort.
I work in an overly casual environment. Dressing professional would only take a little extra effort a day. It would probably be less than 30 minutes of extra effort, I like dressing nice anyway, oppose to putting on make up. It's just hard. Thermodynamically hard. I get the picture of a piece of ice trying to stay solid in a hot pot on the stove. I wouldn't mind dressing more professional if I saw more of it around me, if my surroundings weren't against me.
A picture of me. A picture of me all gussied up. I was at the wedding of my former roommate for the past 3 years. It's quite understandable that I wouldn't look like this everyday. It's not like I go to weddings everyday, god forbid.
Aside from using this picture to illustrate a distantly related point, I guess I can let a few things out:
- I like Tracy Reese. My little sister developed into a Betsey Johnson girl. I felt Tracy Reese went more with my flow.
- I like cocktail hats. I think they make great collectors items. They're timeless for anyone 20+
- I like vintage and vintage inspired pieces, as seen by the cocktail hat. I got that purse at a vintage store near campus.
My make up was professionally done at MAC cosmetics. My cousin's boyfriend works there. My cousins commented on the quality of the make up job on the MAC workers, they were done up as elaborately as me, but what was more surprising is that they actually do make themselves up like that every day. It takes a little extra effort, about 30 minutes of extra effort.
I work in an overly casual environment. Dressing professional would only take a little extra effort a day. It would probably be less than 30 minutes of extra effort, I like dressing nice anyway, oppose to putting on make up. It's just hard. Thermodynamically hard. I get the picture of a piece of ice trying to stay solid in a hot pot on the stove. I wouldn't mind dressing more professional if I saw more of it around me, if my surroundings weren't against me.
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