A question for the ladies...

As y'all know, I'm not shy about much asking questions about things I read. Hence all the winkie-related questions to the guys lately.
Well, now I'm reading a book about Sharon Tate for about the 10th time and I see this sentence referring to her makeup that makes me stop, shake my head and re-read it about 40 times. Now...I realize it's the 60's and all and God knows I'm no makeup artist...but, this has GOT to be a typo...please. I quote:

"Sharon also affects thick, black false eyelashes, brown eye shadow around her lips and long ash-blonde hair that falls freely about her shoulders..."

Now, if this was a book about Tammy Faye Bakker-WhateverinthehellherlastnameisNOW or Baby Jane, I'd understand that. I've heard of putting certain makeup shit in odd places for 'effect', like blush in the cleavage and eyeshadow to contour or create cheekbones and shit like that, but brown eyeshadow around yer lips? Did anybody ever in the history of makeup do this and if so...why?
Or, did the editor of the book fuck up and it's supposed to be 'lids' (good God I hope so)?

I don't wear makeup very often these days and when I do, it's minimal...cover-stick, compact, mascara, blush and lip gloss...yes, I said lip gloss. LipSTICK looks like shit on me. Too heavy and fake looking, so I stick to lip gloss and no, not that "I've-just-eaten-KFC-shiney-shit", either.
But, back in high school I did 'full-face' ever' damn day of my life. Cover-stick, compact, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara, blush, SHINEY lip gloss...the works.
Then one day I read in some dopey magazine that if it took longer than 5 minutes to do yer makeup, you're wearing too much.

So, I learned to put it all on really fast.

Nowdays, it takes about three minutes tops but, it's because I don't wear as much not 'cause I'm throwing it on like spackle like some people (TammyFaye,BabyJane,90%of thebimbettesthesedays) do.

But...back to this eyeshadow around your lips shit...what is that about?


Posted by: Stevie at 04:14 AM

Comments

1 *shudder* That HAS to be lids. Even though I like to believe editors are perfect (being one and all), we miss small shit like that all the time. Don't worry -- that editor has probably smoked 1,000 cigarettes and downed twice as many shots to forget that one boneheaded error. That's the thing -- spellcheck never picks up even half of the mistakes in a document. D'oh!

Posted by: Dawn at December 10, 2003 06:37 PM (L6pam)

2 Nope, it's not a typo. My Mom did/does the same thing, only now she uses "lipliner". It's to make the shape of your lips stand out so they have an actual shape. If the color of your lips and skin are similar, your lips just kind of fade into your skin. So, you outline the lips with a darker color, and slap a thin layer of translucent lipstick over the top.

What's funny is when women do the outlining, and then their lipstick wears off. Looks like indian warpaint! bwhahahahaha!

Posted by: Minerva at December 10, 2003 11:13 PM (rzNqL)

3 Wow...lipliner never occured to me 'cause I don't use it precisely because of that reason...I've seen women walkin' around like that. The lipstick is usually on their teeth by then...lol.

And, Gawd, I'd love to be an editor or proof reader. I find so many typos in books...course, some of my own get by me, now and again, but still...I'd love to do that.

Thank you BOTH for answering that. Sure do appreciate it...Thanks!

Posted by: Stevie at December 11, 2003 02:57 AM (etOiU)






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