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| A "MakeupFree Me" in the morning! |
I periodically go through phrases that are with and without makeup. Working at some plush "rich white man" gig in the city? Oh hecks yeah, I wear War-Paint to that meeting and lots of it, if that's what it takes to make the deal go down with you, idiot!
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| Me: concealer set with powder and some blush, in the afternoon! |
Humbly working from home on my own stuff, on an old (and supposedly) "outdated" system? Nope, just me and my old clothes here, y'all!
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| Me: morning time, hairband and ponytail, then make breakfast. |
But it's really not a series of hard-and-fast rules that I rush through compulsively. Sometimes I skip the face paint AND I work summer hours at a seasonally slow publishing house. Who cares? It's hot out, and maybe my skin needs a rest in the heat.
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| Woke up, tied back the curtains, and looked out the window. Who's that? |
Plus, I have a lot of work to do, and quietly so, too, while the rest of humanity leaves town to go on vacation. Go, and good riddance to you! Or, maybe I want to go to the store while I'm working from home AND I also dot cover-up on that stubborn blemish. Who knows? Who cares?!
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| Yeah, I've got a blemish. So what? Not in the mood. Got work to do. |
The point is this: I'm not on some big anti-makeup "Crusade", because if I were on that particular quest, human, you'd sure as hell know it. I'd be sportin' a big red cross (hand-sewn by me) right across my chest in recognition of that fact, yo. Besides, we fought those old battles centuries ago, and moved on from it. Far from it.
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| Bathed, dressed, and brushed, but no makeup. I like my hair in this one. |
No, I don't hate girls with face-paint, be it a little or a lot, because I don't hate myself with it on, nor without it either, and neither do my close family and friends. After all, they have seen me in all lights (as they see me still), and they've found me worthy of beauty, along with their beauty, too. That's real. See it here, for yourself.
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| Right before bath time. My love asked me to take this shot. |
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| My "Nigella Lawson in the kitchen" look, with some makeup on. |
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| I just woke up and my eyes are still red! |
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| Parents in town taking you to a fancy steak house dinner? "Glamour Girl"! |
On a technical aside: Please note that all of the pics you see here were snapped by me and posted by me, on my (again) "old" iPhone3. I don't have a design system set up (because, once again, it's old and outdated, thus rendering it unusable, as it broke down from "Planned Obsolescence"*), so all my magic comes from me, a good camera built into a nifty smartphone, and whatever filters that I sometimes choose to use on a Mac iPhone and/or an Instagram app. You're welcome!
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
