Interview Look

Hello All! I know its been a few days since my last post, but I've been looking for a new job! Here's a look I've been doing lately. Its really subtle, but it's still kinda pretty and perfect for interviews! Interviewers don't want to see a face full of makeup, but we can't go in there bare faced lol. We just want to "look like ourselves, but better".

Face:
Motives Custom Blend Foundation in 17-Five
MAC MSF in Natural
MAC Plum de Bois Blush (my favorite!)

Eyes:
Honey MUFE Pigment
Stila Eye Kohl

Lips:
Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush Lip Gloss in Slice of Heaven

Thanks and A Thought for the Day

I want to give a huge thanks to Amina and Anjela for this. I'm really honored that I'm on the list for the blogs you love. I appreciate that you check out my site regularly. Thanks ladies!

My blog nominations are:
1. Forty is the New 202. Inverted Reflection
3. The Coarse Hair Diary
4. Light Skinned-ed Girl
5. Clumps of Mascara
6. Dao's My Makeup Blog
7. NessasaryMakeup

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I also want to post this article that I saw on No More Race's Blog. He always has some very informative material. I thought this article was excellent and I had to post it for you. I know its not makeup related, but its very good. Its by Tim Wise, "a white man who is unafraid to say the truth even when others who share his skin color will not".Let me know if you guys mind seeing the occasional interesting non-beauty related posts from me. Enjoy reading!


A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

By Tim Wise

For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a "f*ckin’ redneck," like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll "kick their f*ckin' ass," and talk about how you like to "shoot sh*t" for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is when you can attend four different colleges in six years like Sarah Palin did (one of which you basically failed out of, then returned to after making up some coursework at a community college), and no one questions your intelligence or commitment to achievement, whereas a person of color who did this would be viewed as unfit for college, and probably someone who only got in in the first place because of affirmative action.

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don’t all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you’re "untested."

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because "if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me," and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the "under God" part wasn’t added until the 1950s--while believing that reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because, ya know, the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), is a dangerous and silly idea only supported by mushy liberals.

White privilege is being able to be a gun enthusiast and not make people immediately scared of you. White privilege is being able to have a husband who was a member of an extremist political party that wants your state to secede from the Union, and whose motto was "Alaska first," and no one questions your patriotism or that of your family, while if you're black and your spouse merely fails to come to a 9/11 memorial so she can be home with her kids on the first day of school, people immediately think she’s being disrespectful.

White privilege is being able to make fun of community organizers and the work they do--like, among other things, fight for the right of women to vote, or for civil rights, or the 8-hour workday, or an end to child labor--and people think you’re being pithy and tough, but if you merely question the experience of a small town mayor and 18-month governor with no foreign policy expertise beyond a class she took in college--you’re somehow being mean, or even sexist.

White privilege is being able to convince white women who don’t even agree with you on any substantive issue to vote for you and your running mate anyway, because all of a sudden your presence on the ticket has inspired confidence in these same white women, and made them give your party a "second look."

White privilege is being able to fire people who didn’t support your political campaigns and not be accused of abusing your power or being a typical politician who engages in favoritism, while being black and merely knowing some folks from the old-line political machines in Chicago means you must be corrupt.

White privilege is being able to attend churches over the years whose pastors say that people who voted for John Kerry or merely criticize George W. Bush are going to hell, and that the U.S. is an explicitly Christian nation and the job of Christians is to bring Christian theological principles into government, and who bring in speakers who say the conflict in the Middle East is God’s punishment on Jews for rejecting Jesus, and everyone can still think you’re just a good church-going Christian, but if you’re black and friends with a black pastor who has noted (as have Colin Powell and the U.S. Department of Defense) that terrorist attacks are often the result of U.S. foreign policy and who talks about the history of racism and its effect on black people, you’re an extremist who probably hates America.

White privilege is not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is when asked by a reporter, and then people get angry at the reporter for asking you such a "trick question," while being black and merely refusing to give one-word answers to the queries of Bill O’Reilly means you’re dodging the question, or trying to seem overly intellectual and nuanced.

White privilege is being able to claim your experience as a POW has anything at all to do with your fitness for president, while being black and experiencing racism is, as Sarah Palin has referred to it, a "light" burden.

And finally, white privilege is the only thing that could possibly allow someone to become president when he has voted with George W. Bush 90 percent of the time, even as unemployment is skyrocketing, people are losing their homes, inflation is rising, and the U.S. is increasingly isolated from world opinion, just because white voters aren’t sure about that whole "change" thing. Ya know, it’s just too vague and ill-defined, unlike, say, four more years of the same, which is very concrete and certain.

White privilege is, in short, the problem.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Tim Wise is the author of White Like Me (Soft Skull, 2005, revised 2008), and of Speaking Treason Fluently, publishing this month, also by Soft Skull.

Glam and Goth

I got a chance to do a photo shoot Tuesday with some AMAZING People. My photographer is one of the best I've worked with; his work is wonderful and he always knows the vision I try to explain to him so we are on the same page. Also my models, Kat and Stephanie, were so great, showed up SO promptly, friendly, and were dreams to work with. I got my photo's back the very next day and today I'm putting them up for you! I'm also putting even more photos from the shoot in my online portfolio so be sure to check those out also. You can make a comment on a specific photo there too if you like! I hope you enjoy them!

I Got the Blues

Hey! First off I wanted to say thanks so Amina and Anjela for nominating me! Aw, I'm glad I'm one of the blogs you love!! I'll nominate some other blogs next week!

Now for my FOTD. I have missed my blues! I haven't worn any in a while. When my hair was red, the blue clashed so bad that I just couldn't wear it. Now that my dark brown hair is back, I can wear it again! Yay!


I'm doing a wedding today and I really like to wear bright colors when I do a more natural makeup application. It shows the client that Im diverse in my skills.


All products by MAC unless specified otherwise.

Face
Prep+Prime
Strobe Cream
Motives Custom Blend Foundation in 17-five
MSF in Medium Plus
Blush in Blooming

Lips
Lipglass in Naked Space

Eyes
Fluidline in Blacktrack
Carbon e/s
Coolheat e/s
Contrast e/s
Vanilla e/s

Bing Look from Cult of Cherry Collection

Hello!

I know I haven't been sticking to my 3 times a week posting schedule, but I'll get back on it soon. I promise! And I've brought you all a look. Its the look entitled "Bing" from the Cult of Cherry Collection. I think Bing Mattene, is quickly becoming a favorite for all, even those who don't usually wear dark colors (like myself). I had to try and pull off this look.

I followed most of the directions from the looks page on the official MAC website, but made a few changes where I saw fit.

EYES
Deep Truth e/s
Shadowy Lady e/s
Smudged Violet e/s
Pat Painterly Paint Pot
Lash Blast Mascara

CHEEKS
Sweep Plum du Bois Powder Blush

LIPS
Velvetella Cremestick Liner
Bing Mattene Lipstick
Cult of Cherry Tinted Lipglass