I feel pretty

[clevermanka]

During the summer, I don't often put on make-up for work. I sweat a lot (and I mean a lot), so any standard make-up I applied before walking up the hill to work would melt down my face. The sweat-resistant drag queen stuff I plaster on for Faire is absolutely not appropriate for the office. And during faire, I really don't feel much like getting made-up for work when I spend so much time heavily made-up on the weekends. Once faire is over, though, and the weather cools down, I enjoy putting on a basic face for the office.

I am amused at how many people (new grad students, usually, but occasionally it's the unobservant or forgetful faculty member) do a double-take and mention my make-up and how nice I look once I start wearing make-up to work again. The comments increased this year what with the new hairstyle. I've had at least three people a day each day this week mention how nice I look.

I tell them it's good to remind the department that I clean up nice and I could quit this job for that high-paying modeling career any day now if I so chose, so they'd better do their best to keep me happy.

Comments

[bestill.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you look pretty with or without make-up!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think so, too.

I know I photograph better with make-up (everybody does), but I think I look fine bare-faced. Good thing, since I don't have the time or energy to be one of those people who can't leave the house without make-up.

[cskippy2000.livejournal.com]

Hotter than doughnut grease. Yup.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Doooooggghhhnuuuutssss.

[curieuse.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear.

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

And you, being stunningly beautiful, totally get this all the time, I'm sure. God your skin is beyond perfect.

[curieuse.livejournal.com]

I wish more people agreed with you -- Including me! Thank you! :)

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Speaking of that, I loved the peacock eye make-up look you had going on for Faire!
and yes,.. make-up or no, always lovely!

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Yeah, I wish I could wear colors like that more often. But it's like Performance or Clubbing. There's nowhere else to wear that shit.

[redheadfae.livejournal.com]

Not unless we lived in NY or LA, for sure!

I feel bad that I haven't gotten tarted up in way too long. My make-up foo is getting weak ;)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

Not unless we lived in NY or LA, for sure!

Well, maybe it's a personal thing. I wouldn't get that tarted up for anything less than a performance or clubbing. I have seen girls wearing that much make-up to go to class. They're usually primping in the bathroom, blocking the sinks where I'm trying to wash my hands.

I want to ask them "Do you know where you are? You're in Wescoe, for godssake. You look like an idiot." I piled on the make-up to go to school when I was in high school, but it was the 80s, man.

Maybe that's why the 80s are having a revival (gods help us all). After the fashion horrors of Grunge and Courtney Love, we need some cosmetically inclined role models.

I vote for this guy (http://images.smarter.com/blogs/welfrey%20makeup.jpg).

[theoneinblue.livejournal.com]

Uh, yes, you are a strikingly beautiful woman regardless of what you are wearing in terms of clothing or makeup. Geez, are they blind? :)

[clevermanka.livejournal.com]

HA! Well, you know academics.

And thank you.