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On my quest for the perfect makeup, there’s one burning issue that yet to be resolved – why, oh why, does my makeup always look crap on a special occasion?
Case in point – a wedding last weekend. I had tried my new Front Cover makeup gift set a couple of days earlier (full review coming soon). If I do say so myself, my application was immaculate and I instantly fell in love with a few of the colour combinations.
I thought that repeating the process for the wedding would be simple enough. However, on that morning EVERYTHING went wrong. I think I was doomed from the start.
I applied my eye makeup first, as had been advised by makeup artists in the past. I understood the thinking behind this – that any specks of eyeshadow or mascara can easily be brushed away from a makeup free face. However, with a bare face, I simply couldn’t visualise how the eyeshadow would look once my makeup was complete, so I piled on the eyeshadow in a gung-ho fashion.
However despite my constant layering of the eye colour in question - a pale pink which looked classy and rosy just days before – came on very lightly and ended up looking cakey and chalky on my eyelids. Even the eyeliner screwed me over, as an unsteady stroke left me with a panda effect on my lower lashline. I neither had the time nor patience to wipe this away, so I thickened the other lower lashline to match. In for a penny, in for a pound and all that.
Just to ruin things further, I was overgenerous when tipping my Bellapierre Blush – a gorgeous Dusky Rose shade – into the lid of the tub. This meant that I had way too much blush to play with. Despite my constant dusting of the brush to remove the excess, I still ended up with loads of blusher. I could have always binned some of the surplus powder, but I guess in my rush to get ready, common sense went out of the window.
Finally, having amassed a generous collection of lip colours, I found myself slightly spoiled for choice, and opted for the pink that I thought was most flattering to both my outfit and complexion. Well, let me tell you, it failed on both counts.
Will little time to go, I had to suck up my dissatisfaction with my look and make my way to the venue, despite feeling that my stunning pink outfit had been let down by a questionable face caked in dubious makeup. And as far as hair went, three strokes of a brush was all I had time for.
I would love to post a picture of my ‘look’, but quite simply, I didn’t take any pictures. Or if I did, I must have deleted them at the scene.
However, upon arrival at the venue, I noticed I wasn’t alone. Half the guests had suffered what I would like to clinically term nervous-getting-ready-syndrome, where makeup is applied with a trowel, to hilarious effect. Cue lots of heavy eye makeup, TOWIE-esque lashes and my personal favourite, a generous dash of deep purple blusher resembling a bruise. Many looked as though they had enlisted the help of a makeup artist, as there seemed to be some precision to the heavy application. If so, they should demand a refund.
You see, I don’t know what it is, but it’s something about special occasions that bring out the cack-handedness in us Desi girls. Suddenly all the makeup rules go out of the window, replaced with the mantra ‘more is more’.
I think my excuse is that when I’m going to getting ready for a special occasion, I feel that my makeup should have a bit more ‘sparkle’ than my day-to-day look. So on goes the highlighter and colourful eyes. However, with me, less really is more, and my minimal workwear look suits me much better than the he-she tranny makeup application many of us Asian girls to succumb to on a special occasion.
So for the next wedding I’m going to, which is in a couple of weeks, I will (attempt to) be minimal. Well, let’s see how that goes.
Names and wedding locations have been unidentified to protect overdone he-she tranny identities.
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