makeup, a chronicle

when i was like, seventeen, i thought i was really great at makeup. looking back i don't so much hate myself, i'm just really disappointed, in a parent's way where it hurts so much more. this is what my makeup was like for formal, a year and a half ago:

the lips are a really unflattering shape and my eyebrows aren't even brushed but i guess it's okay.

i used to have a cream illamasqua foundation that was shades too light for me and overly thick. i think this is the only picture i have wearing it? perhaps not. the finish was fine, but i don't ever wear creams because they feel so heavy and i don't need that much coverage texture-wise.

this is from yeeears ago at a friend's birthday, i went as a glam rocktopus. i was wearing it here. it's since been stolen. all the colours are da vinci micas - the lips are a calvin klein red lippy (also stolen) with a blue da vinci pigment over.

 this was the day i got illamasqua's gender lipgloss, i'd mixed it with something purple to make that lip. on my eyes it's the same double-lined wing that i did almost every day for ages (chameleon fine pigment by tkb trading with a black wing over it)

this is when libby did my makeup. i never wear anything silver, anywhere, but this was nice.

when i figured out how to do blush (it scared me for the longest time) and thought i was top shit. also, brows to the max.

wayyyy brighter in reality, but it didn't seem to pick up.

and that one time i was a chola

and that other time i read too much hellboy and decided to do an 'abe sapien look'

and that one time i got into 'hyper neutrals'

and then when i decided that going clubbing the night before a flight when i hadn't packed was a super idea

and that one time i thought death = glama

and that one time i got the occ lip tar in 'lo-fi' and thought it was the best ever (and still do)

when i did a really nice face and then my rat died.

when i contoured the fuck out of myself and then panicked and couldn't go the the party it was for.

when i hadn't done red lips in months.

when i realised my eyebrows are too thick to be covered by anything i own.

when i was really in to cake-face.

cool! i don't usually take pictures with anything other than photobooth just because it's easy, but yeah.

the brands i usually use are fyrinnae, illamasqua, bys, clinique, mac, and estee lauder.