You can't see it but I nailed the fake eye crease look finally. It's where you draw a new crease above the natural one and it's used on stage to make one's eyes look bigger.
Hey ho!
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Mary Poppins rides again.
Now I know that green eyeshadow, glitter and pink lipstick are far from the usual Mary Poppins look but Drag Mary is a different story! Also I climbed out of this costume into others.
You can't see it but I nailed the fake eye crease look finally. It's where you draw a new crease above the natural one and it's used on stage to make one's eyes look bigger.
Makeup is such an odd thing. I personally have very little time for it and my only concession is lipstick. The whole idea of painting on a face every day just to go to work, or out to dinner, bored me, it's a tedious chore. But using it to do crazy things like moving my eyebrows up, contouring etc for a character - that is interesting to me. I don't aspire to look beautiful or sexy, but to look like Constance, who is neither - like clown makeup.
Hey ho!
You can't see it but I nailed the fake eye crease look finally. It's where you draw a new crease above the natural one and it's used on stage to make one's eyes look bigger.
Hey ho!
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Your make up is great. Your eyes look huge. I bet it is very effective from the audience perspective. I used to wear make up a lot but don't except for high days and holidays now. It takes too much time. You see a lot of people here with full on conturing and face on. How do they find the time and energy at stupid o' clock in the morning? :) Xx
ReplyDeleteStupid o'clock indeed! It is about the audience experience for sure, and of course men tend to have smaller eyes and lower eyebrows than women so these techniques were used to feminise the male face in drag. So ironically when I do them I look more masculine! This is good!
DeleteYou nailed the giant eye look! I love the green for Mary Poppins. :D
ReplyDeleteI just do eyeliner every morning, since I don't have much and very light eyelashes on my bottom lid, and I like my eyes defined a bit more. I think it's become habit now, though I read something a few years back about someone saying their makeup is their armour that they wear out into the world. That they feel naked without it. Sort of resignated with me, even if I just wear eyeliner. And sometimes, rarely, lipstick, if I need to feel extra strong and armoured! :)
funny how you go for eyes and I go for lips - lips only works for the kind of work we do when it is the kind that will not come off though. When I had a bridal store many years ago, I couldn't wear it - too often I had pins in my mouth, and then little red dots on a frock!
DeleteIt looks great! I always wondered what that "line" in drag makeup (probably not the right term, sorry) was. A fake eye crease makes total sense though! I do wear makeup every day but it takes about 5 mins to do, so totally doable.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! It's not the time it takes though but the sense of obligation I experience that I am not willing to waste time on. If you don't mind doing it and enjoy the experience then yay! WE women should be allowed to choose how we groom ourselves, not all have to go with one flow :)
DeleteYou look beautiful.. I too, hate the make up everyday routine.ha
ReplyDeleteHave fun.
It's one of those female obligations, like removing ody hair, that I resent the tyranny of, after so many years, and have given up. It's not wrong or bad and the sense of tyranny I feel is an individual one for example I embrace Christmas and Easter without feeling remotely like I am pressured into doing so by the weight of advertising and commercial interference, but I know that this spoils it for others. We all have our own experience of life I guess! And thank you for the compliment! xo
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