EOTD: Rocks for work, experiment #1

June 25th, 2010

And I think I might have erred on the side of too subtle!

Only eyes today.  Foundation and I are having a rather tempestuous relationship, and I think it may be because I haven’t found quite the right summer moisturizer for my skin.  Also, my hair is truly scary.  I’ve discovered that a flat iron is an excellent tool for making my hair professional (when it’s shorter than shoulder length, despite being otherwise straight it bends in odd places), but I have to buy some heat protectant before I try it again and give you pictures.  (It’s also not as hard to do as a lot of other hair tricks, important for me and my klutziness!)

Enough babbling.  Here are my eyes.  First open….

And then closed.

See what I mean about too subtle?  You can barely see the liner, especially on my right eye where I put it on a bit more narrowly.  (Is that even a word?  Well, it is now.)  My vision is significantly different in my right and left eyes (much blinder in the left, in case you were curious), and I seem to have not gotten the hang of compensating for that when I put my eye makeup on.  Either that or I overcompensate.

What I used:

• Concealer, for once!  Benefit Erase Paste in the lightest color on my dark circles.  It’s a bit cakey, which means I really need to be more religious about eye cream, because the skin is getting a bit dry there.
• Painterly Paint Pot as base (next look, I swear to you I will try my Detrivore primer again…pinky swear, even!)
• Fyrinnae Valhalla on the lid
• Fyrinnae Maneki Neko on the outer corner, quite lightly, and dry on the lower lash line
• Fyrinnae Shinkirou as a brow highlight
• Aromaleigh Rocks in Dirtydeeds, used dry as a liner on the upper lid
• Cover Girl Lash Blast Length on the upper lashes…it’s a lot more subtle than the Volume, so I think it’s a better everyday mascara for me.  I seem to be extra sensitive to the smell of it though, because it really bothered me today.  It hasn’t gone bad (I just opened it a couple of weeks ago)…it’s just a bit more chemical-ish than the Volume.

Valhalla and Maneki Neko are very neutral browns–in fact, I’d venture that Valhalla is pretty darn close to taupe–and they both seem to have a slight purplish cast on my skin, either from combining with the Paint Pot or just from my skin, which didn’t really come through in either photo.  I’d be perfectly willing to wear this makeup to work–especially behind my glasses, it’s very subtle and professional.  In fact, next experiment I think I’m going to throw some Pixie Epoxy in there and see how professional I can keep it.

I used a neutral pink gloss with this, and it worked well, though I think I’d have been happier with something more on the matte side.

(For the record, no job yet, though I should be hearing back soon about the first job I second-interviewed for, and I have another second-interview scheduled, this one for the job I reallyreallyreally want, just after the 4th of July weekend.)