Work Spirited Away in somehow for the hat trick.

The monster is No-Face?

[eta: Which would make Locke Chihiro, I suppose.]

I think 'delenda est' started on TWoP, before it was TWoP. And it was about Tess, which makes this on topic!

Everybody else was European in really, really bad eyemakeup.

If I could just pretend to be white by using really, really bad eyemakeup, my life might be very different today.

Further, we did a unit on racial makeup in our theater makeup & masks class, and I was a little bemused by it. Also offended that the base closest to my skin tone was the one intended for white people making themselves up as Japanese. Heh.

Although, it occurs to me that this is a part of why I don't wear makeup, too. Instead of being taught how to supplement and focus my natural beauty, I was taught how to use street makeup to minimize my Japanese appearance. How to apply eyeliner to make my eyes look less Asian, how to de-emphasize the fullness of my lips. No wonder I eventually found it off-putting and discarded it altogether. This is how my face looks, damnit, and if the world doesn't want to look at it like this, that's just tough for them.

During WWII Life did this horrible article on "How to tell the Japs from the Chinese".

Yeah, it was awful. There were some of those propaganda posters at the Japanese-American internment display at the Smithsonian, lo, these many years ago. Unbelievable.

Oh, yeah, Lost. Well. We should not kill off any of the Hawtness. And we should not kill off anyone that is interesting to me. Unless they are killed off in an interesting way.

Instead of being taught how to supplement and focus my natural beauty, I was taught how to use street makeup to minimize my Japanese appearance. How to apply eyeliner to make my eyes look less Asian, how to de-emphasize the fullness of my lips.

That is just plain evil. Was this in a stage makeup class, or a makeup store? In either case, SHAME ON THEM.

No, you know, in life. "Oh, you're old enough to want to wear makeup? Okay, well, this is what you should do."

That is crazy and shameful. I have met you, Liese, and you have fabulous, gorgeous full lips. They should never be made up for de-emphasizing; they should be made up (if at all, as they are plenty lovely in their natural state) so that all the other lips in the world will gasp with envy.

A pox on your erstwhile makeup mentors. Human beings are depressing.

the base closest to my skin tone was the one intended for white people making themselves up as Japanese.

So was mine. It was always kind of frustrating waiting for the makeup person to go through all of the "white" bases before realizing that, no, I really am that pale.

It was always kind of frustrating waiting for the makeup person to go through all of the "white" bases before realizing that, no, I really am that pale.

"Oh, honey.... That can't be right. Here, I'm a professional, let me find the correct shade for you...."

Have not met Liese. However, can comment on the universal desireability of full lips. Go check out the fanfic thread -- I speak nothing less than truth. Also, the 'makeup to hide' a feature never works. I think that goes double when what one is trying to hide is one's whole face. Bleah on that.

Actually in that vein, I wonder whether we will be able to track the deterioration of the grooming situation as we progress past the first week. Charlie's nail polish is still there (mostly), and Shannon lacks not for lip gloss. Also, nobody has bug bites or sunburn. This is truly fantast island.

Thank god for international makeup smugglers.