Birthday Felicitations, Beth! I wish you a year ahead of good food, good friends, and good music!
smonster, I'm no expert, but a lifetime of pet-owning and observance suggests that bonny's probably right. Ginger looks like a love, but the chow in the mix would worry me around your cats. Frankie might be the better option.
Bonny, I would kill maimuse harsh language for your bone structure. You clearly don't need makeup to look fabulous. I do understand the wish for a little color and polish. I'll second Scrappy's suggestion for tinted moisturizer and powder, with a quarter turn. I use regular moisturizer and mineral powder foundation. It does even out my skin tones, and doesn't melt into lines the way even good liquid foundation can do. It has better staying power on a warm day, as well. I use an eyebrow pencil to fill in where mine are sparse, pencil eyeliner, with dark powder shadow smudged over the line to both soften and "set" the pencil line. The same pencil in the crease, smudged with a fingertip to give me the fabulous definition you have naturally. And powder blush stroked on the apple of the cheek toward the hairline, and on the upper lid under the arch of the brow.
I second the notion of colored gloss. Or a lipstick you like slicked with clear gloss. You'll be gorgeous-er than you already are.
My condolences to your sister, smonster. Losing even a frenemy at so young an age is difficult.
Happy birthday, Beth!
Shir, that's fantastic! Your project sounds fascinating and challenging. Will we ever get to see the results of it?
Shir, that sounds amazing! Looking forward to hearing about how you approach that.
smonster, that's really sad.
Looks like I'm off to see Frankie on my own. What's up with all my local friends having lives and stuff?
Hmph! I wanted to get a pedicure, mostly for the massage chair, but the place is not open even though they're supposed to be!
Will we ever get to see the results of it?
That, I think, will depend on how supportive my lecturers will be. Last year was dedicated to a partial historiographical analysis of the 19th century and how come a very specific type of camera has been developed, and what for (governments totally had a key role in it). Then I began question the notion of clear representation, or: picture as proof (there are 4 barriers the conscious have to cross to accept photograph as real. That's a lot. I also question Barthes' "studium" and "ponctum", for if it is right, National Geographic would have failed miserably).
Walter Benjamin said that the future's illiterate will be the one who can't "read" pictures. These days, after reading all of that literature about photography and modernism, when I look at the pictures and going "WTF this has to do with that?" 90% of the time, I fear of becoming one.
I won't bore you with more details, but once again, unaware human behavior and justification doesn't fail.
ION, it's now officially Memorial Day. RIP, guys and gals. May my country have the guts to strive for peace, and stop sacrificing your lives upon it's past traumas.
