Colorqueen
Well-known member
Well it was hard to do, I did not want to go to my mums house with this hair because I knew that she did not like it, but I finally did it.
Here is what I posted on MUA about it- since I am lazy and don't want to rephrase the whole thing- I have left it as is so that is why it sounds a bit odd for here- like I did not post this already here......
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Okay, here is a repost of yesterday's FOTD so in case you missed it, you know what I am talking about.
At the end after the photos and all, I will give you my discovery and what I learned after your comments yesterday......
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REPOST (NEW COMMENTS FOLLOWING)
I had a long post yesterday about how worried I was wearing my hair to my parent's house knowing they did not like it at all. They did not say anything about it when I got there, but I could sense that it was coming- the look of *how can she look so awful* started fomenting.
Given the history of being told I looked disgusting in looks that I felt good in, I was really starting to get stressed. However, in a wild twist of circumstances, a woman with cancer who used to have amazing hair showed up at our table for dinner and being the up front type person I am, told her that she just HAD to get a wig- how much it would free up her life.
She was wearing a little bright red cap and had spent almost a year not going out of the house due to shame of being bald now. I knew how she felt as I had similar situation when a hairstylist burned a huge hole in my hair that would not grow back.
So, I told her about wigs and thankfully I had one on- my mom said, " well, she has on a wig" - and the woman did not believe it.
Then my mom said, yes, when you see one that is so natural looking and nice as that one, it sure helps, doesn't it? (I know she hates this one too so this was amazing for her to say this).
And that helped the woman a lot- as she was so depressed looking bald for so long- her hair was her mantle so to speak.
Then when we got home, my mom told me that this lady was selling her furniture and everything just to pay for chemo as she was in bad shape financially so she was going to send her a gift certificate for the company that has the nicest wigs, so she did not have to be depressed anymore.
Isn't that COOL?
So, once again, a potentially horrid situation turned around to be a really nice thing. She never told me that I looked nice at all, so that lady got the compliment out of her in public, but I never did hear how bad I looked in private, which I usually do hear.
Oh, and the reason we were there for my son's driving test- he passed it too- HOORAY! The instructor had to look at my ID just to make sure I was over 21 (HAHA) and said, "Hey, you are the same age as my wife- 30. I told him that he was my friend. HAHAHA
Well, here is how I looked, except the lipcolor, which I changed after photos- it was too dark. I changed it to light peach sherbet color. Oh yes, and the liner under the eyes is not as dark as the photo makes it look- it is actually a medium to light auburn color (believe it or not!)
EYES
Frostlite FL(MAC)
Tupai Color Dose (Lancome)
Firefly pigment (Sweetscents)
Acid Orange pigment(MAC)
Electric Coral pigment (MAC)
Vanilla pigment(MAC)
Copper Interference (Sweetscents)
Chartreuse Pigment (MAC)
Nightfish FL (MAC) liner
Firefly is liner under eye
Face
Mango Tango (Milani)
Stereo Rose MSF(MAC)
Metal Rock MSF (MAC)
Lips
Vegas Volt (MAC)
Wet Shine Diamonds (Maybelline) Mandarin Ice
I thought it was too dark, so I changed it to---
Cosmic Girl (Lancome) Stargloss
with Wet Shine in Mandarin Ice over it which was more of an orange/peach sherbet color.
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COMMENTS AFTER ORIGINAL POST OF ABOVE ON MUA
Okay, several people kept referring to my under eye liner being too dark. Now, I have worn under eye liner that dark with no problem, but this has been puzzling me as several people keep saying this about photos where my undereye liner is quite light.
So, being the researcher and mad scientist that I am, I decided to explore this and try to figure out WHY the camera insists on making it look like I have dark or heavy under eye liner when in reality I don't.
In the photos above, my liner was between a light and medium auburn and quite light, but in the photos it came out like I had a dark brown black on.
SO! Last night I had to race out the door to go get a quick dinner with DH. I purposely decided to experiement with the absence of undereye liner just to see how it would look.
I did a waterline of a small corner of blue peep FL only- no other undereye liner.
When I got ready to go out the door, I noticed that it looked like I had applied liner under my eyes. Upon closer inspection, I saw that when applying my mascara, the brush had left little black marks at the roots of the lashes, which from a distance looked just like liner!
Well, that is a black color, so no wonder it looks like my undereye liner is dark on camera- cameras tend to connect the dots unless in a real high resolution close up, so that solved the mystery of why my undereye liner looks darker in the photos but in real life is not that bad.
See? I really DO listen to all comments offered and take them to heart- that is how you learn!
Thanks all!
Here is what I posted on MUA about it- since I am lazy and don't want to rephrase the whole thing- I have left it as is so that is why it sounds a bit odd for here- like I did not post this already here......
--------------------------------------------
Okay, here is a repost of yesterday's FOTD so in case you missed it, you know what I am talking about.
At the end after the photos and all, I will give you my discovery and what I learned after your comments yesterday......
--------
REPOST (NEW COMMENTS FOLLOWING)
I had a long post yesterday about how worried I was wearing my hair to my parent's house knowing they did not like it at all. They did not say anything about it when I got there, but I could sense that it was coming- the look of *how can she look so awful* started fomenting.
Given the history of being told I looked disgusting in looks that I felt good in, I was really starting to get stressed. However, in a wild twist of circumstances, a woman with cancer who used to have amazing hair showed up at our table for dinner and being the up front type person I am, told her that she just HAD to get a wig- how much it would free up her life.
She was wearing a little bright red cap and had spent almost a year not going out of the house due to shame of being bald now. I knew how she felt as I had similar situation when a hairstylist burned a huge hole in my hair that would not grow back.
So, I told her about wigs and thankfully I had one on- my mom said, " well, she has on a wig" - and the woman did not believe it.
Then my mom said, yes, when you see one that is so natural looking and nice as that one, it sure helps, doesn't it? (I know she hates this one too so this was amazing for her to say this).
And that helped the woman a lot- as she was so depressed looking bald for so long- her hair was her mantle so to speak.
Then when we got home, my mom told me that this lady was selling her furniture and everything just to pay for chemo as she was in bad shape financially so she was going to send her a gift certificate for the company that has the nicest wigs, so she did not have to be depressed anymore.
Isn't that COOL?
So, once again, a potentially horrid situation turned around to be a really nice thing. She never told me that I looked nice at all, so that lady got the compliment out of her in public, but I never did hear how bad I looked in private, which I usually do hear.
Oh, and the reason we were there for my son's driving test- he passed it too- HOORAY! The instructor had to look at my ID just to make sure I was over 21 (HAHA) and said, "Hey, you are the same age as my wife- 30. I told him that he was my friend. HAHAHA
Well, here is how I looked, except the lipcolor, which I changed after photos- it was too dark. I changed it to light peach sherbet color. Oh yes, and the liner under the eyes is not as dark as the photo makes it look- it is actually a medium to light auburn color (believe it or not!)
EYES
Frostlite FL(MAC)
Tupai Color Dose (Lancome)
Firefly pigment (Sweetscents)
Acid Orange pigment(MAC)
Electric Coral pigment (MAC)
Vanilla pigment(MAC)
Copper Interference (Sweetscents)
Chartreuse Pigment (MAC)
Nightfish FL (MAC) liner
Firefly is liner under eye
Face
Mango Tango (Milani)
Stereo Rose MSF(MAC)
Metal Rock MSF (MAC)
Lips
Vegas Volt (MAC)
Wet Shine Diamonds (Maybelline) Mandarin Ice
I thought it was too dark, so I changed it to---
Cosmic Girl (Lancome) Stargloss
with Wet Shine in Mandarin Ice over it which was more of an orange/peach sherbet color.
----------------------------------------
COMMENTS AFTER ORIGINAL POST OF ABOVE ON MUA
Okay, several people kept referring to my under eye liner being too dark. Now, I have worn under eye liner that dark with no problem, but this has been puzzling me as several people keep saying this about photos where my undereye liner is quite light.
So, being the researcher and mad scientist that I am, I decided to explore this and try to figure out WHY the camera insists on making it look like I have dark or heavy under eye liner when in reality I don't.
In the photos above, my liner was between a light and medium auburn and quite light, but in the photos it came out like I had a dark brown black on.
SO! Last night I had to race out the door to go get a quick dinner with DH. I purposely decided to experiement with the absence of undereye liner just to see how it would look.
I did a waterline of a small corner of blue peep FL only- no other undereye liner.
When I got ready to go out the door, I noticed that it looked like I had applied liner under my eyes. Upon closer inspection, I saw that when applying my mascara, the brush had left little black marks at the roots of the lashes, which from a distance looked just like liner!
Well, that is a black color, so no wonder it looks like my undereye liner is dark on camera- cameras tend to connect the dots unless in a real high resolution close up, so that solved the mystery of why my undereye liner looks darker in the photos but in real life is not that bad.
See? I really DO listen to all comments offered and take them to heart- that is how you learn!
Thanks all!
