Beauty Blogs Backstage: I’ve done some interviewing!

June 21st, 2010

Oops!  I was supposed to post my questions to Jen and her answers!  Never fear–I’m still awake, and here they are:

What’s your daily makeup routine?  Do you do a full face every day, or do you do a basic routine and then glam it up when you feel inspired?

I stay home with my daughters (ages 1 and 4) and putting on a full face to play Candyland and sit next to the sandbox seems silly. I manage to put on a basic face when I’m going out for errands: sheer foundation over my beloved Bobbi Brown Corrector; a neutral shadow with mascara, lipstick or gloss. I “do it up” for tutorials or actual events. The mail lady is used to seeing me in jeans and a ratty t-shirt with a full-face of makeup.

What non-makeup, non-beauty, non-fashion thing tends to inspire you most when you create a look?

I’m inspired mostly by color. I’m a painter, an artist, so I sometimes just have a mood for a certain color or color combination. I think a lot of it is unconscious, for example the other day I had a dental appointment and then got a pedicure. I had to go back to the dentist the next day and realized I had matched my toenail polish to the color of the accessories I could see from the chair. Bizarre. But still, a lovely lilac!

If you were an animal, which one do you think you’d be?

I’m silly and sleep a lot, so I’d probably be some kind of puppy.

How long does a pedicure last before you get sick of the color and redo it?  How about a manicure; different amount of time, or the same?

My pedicures can last for two weeks before I resent the color, but manicures bore me after about two days. Or maybe sooner. I’m incredibly mani-fickle!

If you had to choose your one favorite work-appropriate nail color, what would it be and what do you like about it?

Since I’m a makeup artist, I have no limits with “work appropriate”! If I feel like I have to keep my polish subdued, though, I like soft peaches or my favorite shade: lovely taupes. I don’t think colors like Sephora by OPI’s Metro Chic are ever inappropriate.

If you could only eat the cuisine from one culture for the rest of your life, which culture would it be?

I’d eat Indian food, definitely! It’s my favorite. And luckily there are tons of vegetarian choices, so that plus the spices means I’d never have a bored palette.

I see you post about fragrance too…what’s the one note that doesn’t work on you that you really, really, REALLY wish did?

That’s a great question. I really love sticking my nose in a rose, but for the most part rose notes just get terribly overwhelming on me. I don’t care to smell like a granny’s lingerie drawer.  I wish I could wear leather notes, too, because they pair with a lot of my favorite notes in some very interesting-sounding scents. Sadly, tobacco tuns into “ashtray” on my skin, and that’s never cute.