After being a makeup artist for over a decade,I can pretty much size you up the minute I see you coming. I can quickly assess you by your outfit, your bag, and your hairstyle,and your jewelry and know immediately that you want only a tinted moisturizer. I know that, even when you say you want something more than that, and you won't like it.
I know that you exhaust retinol everyday without you telling me. I know that you possess botox and fillers. I know that you only wear chapstick on your very chapped lips. When you say "Um yeah,I possess an eye cream," with hesitation, and I know that you are referring to the free Clinique sample that has been in your drawer for at least a year. I also know that you are compulsively plucking your brows that "just never grow!" I don't judge. I really don't care what you execute at domestic. Please,I am asking you to just be honest. I can also tell as soon as you sit in my chair, whether you can handle a lot of makeup or not. But without fail at least once a day, and a preppy,non-makeup wearing women will sit down and observe me straight in the face and say "I think I would like a smoky eye."I don't know who came up with this clever term, but whether I ever meet him I will punch him in the face.
You don't want a smoky eye. You like the notion of it. You see Kim Kardashian on Pinterest and you fantasize about having this sultry observe the next time you are attending a wedding or bar mitzvah. You imagine yourself as a much younger, and sexier version of yourself,and you think that at the ripe age of 37 you are now alert to observe like that sexy woman on Instagram with fake eyelashes and "contour" and black eyeliner rimming every inch of your eyeball.
Sometimes you possess a bare Palette from Urban Decay so you think you are edgy, but whether you were to be honest you would admit you only exhaust the lightest shades in the palette and the darker colors are untouched. You may possess watched the tutorials on YouTube on "how to create a smoky eye, and " so you think you are alert for it.
You're not.
I know it.
You will possess to memorize the hard way."So execute you normally wear a lot of eye makeup?" I ask innocently,while I prep your skin. I start with a soft fleshy tone on your lid and then I add a shrimp bit of a darker tone. Never a true smoke color, because I don't want you to cry or run away. You will clutch the hand mirror and ask whether you can observe. I will let you.
I know. Please discontinue saying this. I don't even know how to effect someone observe like a clown. whether you hired me to execute clown makeup I would possess to decline the job. I am not in the clown business. I am simply attempting to execute what you requested me to execute. PS. We haven't created any "smoke" yet.
You will clutch your mirror and try to watch what I am doing, and as you give me permission to proceed. I will add some black brown or smoky color in your crease. I add some smudgy black liner and some mascara. You don't even possess two layers of fake lashes on yet like a Kardashian. I see that you are clutching your hand mirror and your knuckles are white so I let you pick a peek.
You don't. But you also don't observe like yourself.
I ask whether you would like me to pick off some of the makeup and gently remind you that you are nowhere near the amount of makeup featured in the Instagram photo that you showed me when you first sat down. You sheepishly say that you would like to pick off some of the liner . . . and maybe some of the black shadow.
I pick off the makeup. You say "Maybe just execute what you think looks best?" Now we can get along. I suggest a more realistic "eye observe" that will allow you to feel comfortable while still making you observe good. I say "Let's create a observe that shows off your eye color and makes you observe like a better version of yourself." The tension in your shoulders lessens and the grip on the hand mirror relaxes a bit."Yes,let's execute that." you say with relief.
Because you are not Kim Kardashian, nor execute you want to be. You will not be followed by the flashbulbs of the paparazzi and you will not spend your days taking selfies. You simply want to observe like a better version of yourself and a "smoky eye" does not execute that for most women.
You will leave with hydrated glowing skin and makeup that makes your blue eyes pop and your cheekbones glow. You are simply a better version of yourself, and you will walk out the door with your head held tall and a shrimp bit of a skip in your step.
You are better than a smoky eye. So don't ask for it again.
Source: popsugar.com