Before I left for Chile, I owned one tube of mascara and one duet of eyeshadow called “taupia.” Then, one night while I was visiting Perú, I let my friends talk me into wearing make-up. They painted up my eyes and spent the whole night exclaiming, “Wow, you have really beautiful eyes.”
After that, I feel in love with the concept of turning my own face into an empty canvas. Now, don’t get me wrong; I totally… hmm, I can’t remember the word in English. In Spanish it is proponer. Something like encourage, but not. So, I guess I totally encourage the idea of natural beauty. Promote!!! That’s the word. Okay, I totally promote the idea of natural beauty. But I have a lot of fun with the idea of being able to alter your appearance and, some manner, who you are. I have to say that there are times that I have more confidence while wearing make-up. There are just certain expressions that are really emphasized when I have make-up on.
Tonight, a friend of a friend is having a birthday party in Isla Verde. Isla Verde is filled with rich American tourists and always makes me feel slightly uncomfortable. So, I opened up my make-up door and pulled out my various eye-shadows. There is the cheap set of twelve colors from Chile that sometimes gives a special tint to the others. There is the set of three different greens that I also bought in Chile. It is rather special to me, because it suddenly made me realize that my eyes are actually slightly more green than they are blue. Then there are all the single colors that I bought at Fred Meyer: light pink, dark pink-almost-crimson, purple, light blue, and a very dark blue that sparkles. There are the two single ones that I bought at the PC Market: opal and “northern lights” (a sparkly darker pink). There is a duet of light and dark blue that has been such a staple in my make-up supply. There a couple of different brilliant greens. And then there is the risk-taker: a turquoise bright blue powder. Oh, and the sparkly silver tube.
I decided to take a risk tonight and cake on the turquoise across, up and down my eyelid. Next, a stroke of sparkly midnight blue around my eyes and a shade of blue similar to what you might expect a dull blueberry to look like covered the middle of my eyelids. Black eyeliner and mascara completed the look…
Well, I had planned on taking some pics to show what I just described, but my main photographer (Becca) had to leave Puerto Rico. Nobody else here really understands my photographic style. While I got some good pics of friends, there were no good pics of me. Maybe I could use Photoshop... We’ll see.
It was a good thing I decided to wear make-up and a low-cut top so that most people would focus on everything above my waist, because my shoes broke. Fortunately, the bouncers didn’t kick me out for having to go barefoot, but feet did get disgustingly dirty. And tomorrow, I will have to go pick out a new pair of heels. While the ones that broke were really cheap, they were also really comfortable. So, please join me in a moment of silence in remembrance of the $5 comfortable, black heels that broke tonight… Don’t cry too much; It would be a shame to have that sparkly midnight blue eyeshadow running down your cheeks.