Makeup 365 Day 48 - A Little Glam

I played with my curling iron today and have decided that my hair + heat = no effect. Right now, 5 hours later I have a decidedly un-cute wave in my hair. Yea, I know 'un-cute' isn't a word, but it conveys basically what this looks like which is hell on toast. I love my hair, don't get me wrong. I will especially love it after the Oireachtus is over and I can add feathers and a shot of color somewhere (I'm thinking pink or purple. Perhaps teal. That being said my hair does absolutely nothing that resembles a curl. I had a perm once for about a minute and it looked fab for about a week until it was just a limp wave. Gross. If I could just have some sort of texture in it, I would be over the moon. Add that to the ever-growing list of things that I as a woman do not like about myself. *sigh*

On a completely different note I had a moment today as I was watching The Chew before watching The Talk. Scorsese was on there talking about making Hugo and his passion for film making had me near tears. His love of the art form and the way he speaks so eloquently the things that I have such a hard time conveying stirred something in me. This feeling, this overwhelming sense that there are people out there like Scorsese without the 'Hollywood Icon' title who feel the same way about this art of story telling reaffirmed for me that this is not one of my throw away hobbies I will look back on and think 'oh, yea, I did that once upon a time'. There are stories out there that need to be told and with them come actors who need to become characters with the aid of a makeup artist. Yes, I know how that sounds, but it's true. A friend of mine who once played the Phantom in Broadway's Phantom of the Opera once told me that he closes his eyes while his makeup is applied so that he can open them and see the mask in place thereby completing the transformation. That is why I love this medium. The artistry, the amazing things you can hide and heighten, the characters you aid in creating; these are but a few reasons I love the art of makeup. It is more than making people beautiful, it is bringing out the character.

Stepping off the soap box now ... on to Makeup 365!

I had some errands to run today, so a basic face was needed. I realized I hadn't worn my fave red lip out in a while, so I picked my makeup around Kat Von D's Hellcat lipstick.

The makeup:

(Pictured: my staple primers, MAC Studio Fix Fluid NW15, Make Up For Ever HD Powder, Sephora blush in rose frais, MAC False Lashes, Smashbox waterproof gel eyeliner, Kat Von D by Sephora lipcolor in Hellcat)

My results: