So Back to Eye Makeup

Eye makeup is a rite of passage for a girl. I don't know many females who wear none.

There is of course the "natural look" and if you are a raving complete beauty, then this is for you. If you wanted to divide the female world into Dorothy/Wizard of Oz types and Jezebels, that would be fair. I'm a J for sure. I paint my face and would not go into Hannaford's without doing so [as always, Hannaford's is the Ultimate Test for me]. In the 1960s, women went all out with eye makeup, the darker and more pronounced the better.







Nowadays, most people tone it down a little, though most women I know keep the same eye strategy for decades. You might try a new technique, but most of the time you come back to the tried and true. My friend Gayle wears total shocking blue eyeshadow/Sixties-looking eye makeup. If I described it to you, you'd be appalled. But you know what? She looks pretty darn glamorous in it. As I said before, I watched my friend Ketta put on eye makeup in high school and have copied her ever since. I don't even know where she is now.

Blue eyeshadow is an individual decision. Nay nay, I say, for myself. Same with green or purple or anything except muddy dark brown. In fact, there are many many colors to choose from.

But if you are like me, you will own a huge container like this and only use one of them. This is inefficient. Only buy the color you like. I use brown because that's what Ketta used.


Eyeliner goes on after the shadow. There's eyeliner above the eye and eyeliner below the eye. Below the eye is where you can make your really big raccoon statement. Eyeliner can be applied with pencil, which can hurt depending on how hard you have to press, or paint, which takes artistry if I may say. I'm a painter and many's the time I've had some regrettable mirror accidents. I always try to paint a very thin line but then I make a little blip and have to increase the width of the line and pretty soon it's a great big thick sucker. And by the way, there's no crying in baseball and there's certainly no crying in eye makeup. You cry, you do it all over again, know what I'm saying?

God, this is exhausting.

Mascara is next and I don't use it. The only wand I want to see is in Good Witch Glinda's hands turning me into Ava Gardner. THANK YOU, MISS G!!!!

Uh, whatever.

My friend is NOT wearing eye makeup.

A bientot

love,

becky