another ticky-box on the girl qualification exam

Since I won't be getting all sweaty every lunchtime for the next several weeks, it occurred to me that this would be a useful time to get a handle on my inability to apply makeup. Not that I have any intent of making this a daily part of my life, but I'd like to be able to do it with confidence and dispatch if I want to.

So I bought a book--I had a couple that were given me previously, but as I phrased it to sweh, I needed the kindergarten level and those started somewhere around middle school--and got crackin'. I came into work with makeup on both Friday and today. It is subtle, sufficiently so that audiovile didn't notice I was wearing any until I pointed it out. This is to the good, as I hold that makeup is like stage lighting: the viewer shouldn't be consciously aware of it unless you're deliberately doing something dramatic; they should merely notice that things are looking uncommonly well and they don't know why.

My current foundation is oil-free, which is mostly fine, but I think I need something else for my nose, which is awfully dry. I do moisturize it beforehand, but it would seem that bigger mojo is in order. The book advocates a sea sponge (!) for applying foundation, too, but using a regular wedge sponge seems to answer. Certainly it's vastly better than what I had been doing--I no longer feel like I've got glop on my face. In fact I keep forgetting it's there and rubbing my face. Oops.

I also keep forgetting mascara. This does not matter too much, as my lashes are naturally dark, but it should be a conscious decision not to wear it, not Hello I Am A Ditz.

I need more daytime eyeshadow (I have lots of gold and acid greens, but not much of natural shades) and lipstick (I only have one not-dark), just so's I don't get bored.

Also, GIP.