Strawberry Fingernails

I'm not too proud of the pictures I took, but I'm very happy with how the makeup looks on my face. I used my new gel liner in white on this one, also, so thought you might want to see how that came out.

This was very quick and dirty, I'm actually going to clean up the fallout after I write this (!).

I applied clinique youth surge spf 15 moisturizer, covergirl liquid foundation, clinique powder foundation, and clinique blush in cupid. I brushed on some dry Barry M light orange dazzledust all over my lid up to the browbone and then used a slightly damp brush to apply some Barry M yellow dazzledust just on the lid. Then, I used my coastal scents angled liner brush to brush on some white gel liner with a medium-long tail just on the top, and brushed on some liquid chartreuse glitter liner and lime crime love spell glitter just on the very edge of the top lashline. Ooh! I just realized I haven't applied mascara yet! Okay, I'm also wearing covergirl outlast lipcolor in rose pearl with the included clear gloss. (All that shimmer around the eyes is from the yellow shadow).

Alright, going to clean up fallout and apply mascara!

Hope this was of some use to you. Next time you may or may not get to hear about my first Rocky Horror Picture Show experience last night (or, really, this morning!).

Ciao,

I think I mentioned before that Color Day is a tradition at my high school where on the day of the first league game of football season EVERY SINGLE PERSON comes to school in crazy insane orange and black regalia (we are the Tigers). It is perhaps my favorite day of the entire school year because it is the only day when I feel like everyone else is as crazy as I am! Last year some of my classmates dressed up as a living room set (a grandfather clock, table and TV, easy chair, sofa (2 people), and even a bear rug!) and came to school a half-hour early to set up in the middle of campus; the guy who was the table and TV gave a morning news and weather report as everyone arrived!

While I've never done anything THAT insanely awesome (I was a princess freshman year, then Where's Waldo?, and then in my junior year I was one of the Madeline girls-- all three in groups of friends), I still have a ton of fun getting ready. I spent yesterday after school bringing Izzy to my house to lend her costume pieces for a pirate costume, going to probeauty for eyelash glue and sewing my tutu, and I woke up at 4:30 this morning to start curling my hair and doing my makeup to be ready in time for school (which starts at 8:00, but on Color Day you should always be early).

This year some of the best costumes were a chess yet (I think Seniors and Sophomores against each other) who set up a giant chessboard on the Tiger Patio at the front of the school and stood there for about half an hour before class started (it would have been really cool if they'd played a game!), an Aladdin Group (hardcore costumes for Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie, Sultan, Carpet, and Raja), some Roller Derby girls who skated around campus all day, a huge group of friends who dressed up as rock stars, some pirates and ninjas, and even some giant cardboard legos!

I wore a homemade/handmade orange tulle and organza orange tutu, a strapless black sequined top bought at a thrift shop in Hollywood, my prom shoes (rhinestone stripper shoes from downtown L.A.), orange and black striped tights with black dance short over, elbow-length black lace fingerless mittens, and my Primark comb hat with net and feathers, PLUS super fabulous makeup as shown above.

 For the makeup, I...

1) applied clinique youth surge moisturizer spf 15 all over my face and upper chest

2) applied covergirl liquid foundation in my color (ivory? very light...) all over my face.

3) applied blush to cheekbones.

4) used FantasyMaker's face-painting pigments and super-cheap plastic brush to apply white paint to my nose, eyelids, brows, and lower forehead, fading out up into my middle forehead.

5) used Barry M kohl pencil in orange to cover eyelid and surrounding area as shown.

6) used FantasyMaker's face-painting pigments and super-cheap plastic brush to apply black paint (very carefully, I would use eyeliner first if I did this again) to the bottom of my nose, NOT as the spots up the nose, lipstick, or the stripes on the eyes!

7) used Barry M dazzledust eyeshadow in light orange (brush on with soft shadow brush, dry) all over the area I colored orange with the kohl pencil. I blended any fallout with a small amount of liquid foundation and rubbed it in rather than get rid of it--I was going for as much color as possible!

8) used clinique black liquid eyeliner first to line upper lids with long tails and then to get crazy with stripes on the orange area. Then I used it to give dots above the black part of the nose extending up to right above the eyebrow, making them more scarce as I moved up.

9) applied professional eyelash glue to orange lashes (after trimming), waited thirty seconds, applied to lid, waiting a little longer, and reapplied eyeliner over them. The glue was clear, I only needed to redo eyeliner because the lashes weren't black.

10) dabbed on holographic glitter to black part of nose with finger.

11) applied clinique black liquid eyeliner to line lips and then applied FantasyMaker's black lipstick in outlined area.

12) dabbed on ripe orange glitter from coastal scents to my lips.

13) applied clinique lash-doubling mascara to lower lashes only.

That's all! I carried the lipstick and orange glitter with me all day because I had to eat lunch at school, and also a mirror so that if I forgot and touched my face, I could fix it immediately.

The makeup was a huge hit, as you might imagine, and I must admit I'm still wearing it (and the full costume)!

Joie de Vivre,

Yes, I wore this to school on Monday:

Zebra Leggings: Primark

Wig: ??

Zippered Skirt: Luella for Target

Top: ??

Brows and Lashes: Clinique long pretty lashes and lash doubling mascara in black (I had to darken the brows because the wig is basically black and I'm naturally pretty much blonde)

Eyes: Barry M liquid eyeliner in blue

Lips: Besame lipstick in Red

Philosophy:

Well, you can't expect to wear a 2-foot tall wig to school and go unnoticed, especially among a crowd of adolescents who seem not to understand the concept of wardrobe past jeans and a t-shirt, but somehow I am often very unprepared for the uncomprehending onlookers' questions. Confused, they ask me, "Why are you all dressed up?", "What's the occasion?", "Is that for drama?" (yes, I am in our school's Drama Company), "That's a wig, right?", and even "Are you Fuschia?"

Yes, the Fuschia one confused me, too. Apparently, she is a character with similar hair in The Rocky Horror Picture Show-- which I will be going to see this Saturday at midnight for the first time (and it's Alice in Wonderland themed!--I'm going as the Queen of Hearts!), and then I will know who Fuschia is.

In the past, I have often reverted to stock answers such as "Why not?", "Life IS an occasion!", "No...?", "Actually, it's a perm", and "Who's Fuschia?". However, this time I had an answer ready, primarily because it was true.

I don't plan things like this, usually. Sometimes I'll have an idea for an outfit and not get around to wearing it for a while, but I never let it get past the shred of an idea stage before I can actually put it on, because that ruins the creativity of the moment for me. For the same reason, I try not to repeat an outfit twice (other than with dresses, I've only ever done a perfect repeat once, and they were for different audiences). The night before I wore this, I had no plans-- I didn't even know we owned a wig like this! Turns out, my mother had originally been planning to be the Bride of Frankenstein for Halloween this year, but decided that the costume would not be "danceable" and therefor was disqualified from her list. By that time, however, she had already bought the wig. So I found it the night before and put it on with my pajamas, just for fun, and wore it around the house finishing up homework and such (which I really should be doing right now!), and while I was doing this, I had the crazy idea that maybe, just maybe, I could pull it off at school the next day. I thought about it: because I'd missed the first week of school being out for jaw surgery recovery, I had been granted the leftover seat in each class, in the very back row. That meant that I wouldn't have to worry about blocking the view of anyone behind me, and I knew there was no way that strange, tall wigs were against our dress code (seeing as we can wear flip flops and strapless shirts if we really want to and the water polo team even gets away with nothing but speedos on color day!), so I decided that I would wear it.

I admit, I had doubts the morning of as I was getting ready-- in fact, I almost decided not to wear it. I hate to admit that the three things that stopped me were 1) pride, 2) I hadn't washed my hair because I knew I'd be wearing a wig, and 3) I had already put black mascara on my eyebrows, and that was not coming off without at least a shower (and I had ten minutes before I had to be gone, essentially). In any case, I ended up wearing the whole ensemble, and with minor exceptions I recieved overwhelmingly positive reactions! This is definitely something I would like to do again for a different audience.

Telehugs and telesmooches,

P.S.- I forgot to tell  you my answer to the questions! I had decided that I wasn't going to live through enough Halloweens to make it worth waiting for one each time I wanted to dress up. Luurve, Rickey <3

Am I the only girl out there who disagrees with the label that fetish shoes get? I think not.

I have to say, it slightly upsets me that the minute any girl dons a platform shoe (god forbid it should be sparkly or plastic!) mothers give their daughters another sex-talk and it's automatically assumed that she is looking for attention from guys, or worse yet, selling something. Cough.

So, I propose a protest! Of course, I have been wearing my go-go boots since the latter half of tenth grade, and that was enough for a while... but not anymore! I've been eyeing some of the Funtasma shoes (a Hallowe'en division of Pleaser) for quite some time, now, especially the pirate girl boots (6 & 9), and I just picked up a Funtasma pair secondhand the other day when I was in Oregon (and I'm wearing them right now, with my rainbow tutu! Pics Saturday, after SAT subject tests!), white patent leather Mary Janes with about a 5" heel and 3/4" platform, I'd guess-- for $15.00, and which just happened to fit perfectly! I deemed it fate and headed to the register, but being a girl (duh!), I NEED MORE!!! I was just now browsing The Electrique Boutique , a fetish costume and shoe store which carries Pleaser and their sub-companies (Demonia, Funtasma, etc.), Bordello,  and other brands. Here are some of my faves:

1-     Bordello Green Glitter Platform Boot by Bordello

2-     Hot Pink High Wedge Spice Girl Platform Boot by Demonia

3-     Mafia Costume Spectator Boot by Funtasma

4-     Carnival Platform Pirate Costume Boot by Funtasma

5-     Purple Concealed Glitter Platform Pump by Bordello

6-     Sexy High Heel Deluxe Pirate Costume Boot by Funtasma

7-     White Gaga Lady Stretch High Heel Gogo Boots by Pleaser

8-     Sexy White High Heel Halloween Costume Boot by Jante

9-     Sexy High Heel Deluxe Pink Pirate Costume Boot by Funtasma

10-     Hot Pink Open Toe Knee High Platform Boot by Pleaser

11-     Queen Of Hearts Costume Maryjane Pump by Pleaser

12-     Anne Michelle Moto-X-02 Ankle Boot Black Multi

http://www.electriqueboutique.com/womens-footwear/cat/7/1/a.html

May you dream of shopping,

These pictures are from the same week that I wore the moustache. My style that entire week was sort of androgynous- from faux facial hair to ties and bowler hats, and I wore my Dad's oversize stiff denim jacket twice (sorry, no pictures!)- once with purple jewel encrusted jeans and once with a mini-dress and tights (the jacket was longer than the dress, reminds me of the CAKE song!)

Pink Straight Jeans: Target

Pink Heels: thrifted

White Button-Down: Primark

Shoe-print Tie: thrifted

Black Bowler: Target

Skull Bracelets: carnival prize

And here's the makeup:

Simple, but bright. Other than basic foundation, the only things I wore were clinique long pretty lashes mascara in black and Barry M pink dazzle dust eyeshadow (applied wet with an angled liner brush).

Lalalalove and Lalalaluck,

Okay, so. I subscribe to Garrison Keillor's daily poetry email called The Writer's Almanac, and just read mine for today. It so happens that today is Edward P. Jones's birthday, and so it included something that he said:

"If you write a story today, and you get up tomorrow and start another story, all the expertise that you put into the first story doesn't transfer over automatically to the second story. You're always starting at the bottom of the mountain. So you're always becoming a writer. You're never really arriving."

I know you're probably wondering what happened to version 1. It just got accidentally deleted when I clicked "settings" instead of "publish".

Since I have two nights worth of homework to do right now, I'll just leave it at saying that many exciting things have happened, are happening, and will be happening, and you will have to wait until tomorrow at the very least to hear much more about them. I'll include some exciting foreshadowing:

rainbow tutu                      *glittery foreshadowing glitter*                                                                       makeup

                              lime crime glitter                                      stripper shoes

                                                                                cousins                                                   life decisions

                                         bride of frankenstein wig                                   *glittery foreshadowing glitter*

        oregon                                          fiftieth anniversary + yummy cake                                     national merit

I can also guarantee that by tomorrow, I won't remember what half those things are supposed to remind me to tell you about. Also, that I probably won't have time to blog tomorrow, so that by the time I do blog again, you'll probably only get about twenty per cent of the intended value. Sorry-- talk to my stupid web host that hasn't figured out how to conveniently place a "submit" button.

At least I remember my fabulous ending salutation:

Tons of telesmooches and two-dozen enchanted, tap-dancing trousers,

Okay, so yesterday I teased you with the practice makeup for my getup on the 24th, and today you get to see the whole ensemble! Here it is, a full body and a close-up of the shoes. The makeup turned out better this time, and I feel bad for not taking a photo of it, but I figured you'd already seen it. Everything was much more defined than the practice.

Aren't those shoes FFaVulous? I bought them when I was in Tombstone, Arizona a year or two ago, and although the seams in the leather down the back do rub in to my calves (and hurt a lot) a piece of tape on the skin there will do the trick and they are surprisingly easy to walk in.

Everybody at school absolutely adored my 'stache. In fact, the only people who had anything bad to say about it were my mother and my grandmother, which really is a shame-- it is nice when we actually agree on something. However, despite my mother being somehow slightly frightened, she is somewhat understanding. As in, whatever she may have said, she still let me out of the house. Which is good. So.

Well, I get home this evening, so maybe I'll post something then.

Lalalalove and lalalaluck,