Journal SolemnDragon's Journal: You look PRETTY, i hardly recognised you!!! 30

I wore makeup today.

It took courage, i don't usually bother. I don't usually care, since it's all drag to me anyway. (c'mon, kids, ya can't have 'dragon,' without 'drag!') But i wore it, and in a fit of trying to make my not-quite-as-business-formal-as-i'd-like outfit look more formal, chose an oriental red lipstic.

*sigh* and since i don't generally bring eye makeup, settled for the green eye makeup that was in my bag.

Coworkers noticed. (can't have 'coworker,' without 'cow!')

"You wore MAKEUP! I hardly recognised you, you're pretty!"

Er... thanks. (Blinder gets the line of the day award: "I don't know how to thank you guys. I don't know WHY to thank you guys.")

But, no... it gets better. The cooing goes on. "You should wear makeup more often. You should wear it ALL the time." Excuse me? "You just look so much prettier." Than what, pray tell?

We're obviously not going to win our flattery merit badges today, let's see how deeper we can dig ourselves in, shall we?

"Really. But you- you did SUCH a fantastic job on your eyes, and your lipstic is great, the colour is great, you should wear lipstic MUCH more often, but..." I swallow my low growl of discontent, waiting to hear what's next... "Green eyeshadow with a green blouse? I mean, they aren't the same colour green, but you should never, EVER leave the house with the same colour like that, they can't match."

I didn't even think about it. And to be honest, i didn't leave the house like this, i put it on in the elevator after i got here. But not the lipstic. The lipstic i put on while getting on the train.

"You should definitely wear makeup for us more often," says another. "You look so much better."

SO, to make a long story short, the makeup advice for the day is that one's eyeshadow shade should always correspond with the fact that if anybody's looking for officelady 1 and officelady 2, they'll find them in the skip out behind the building. I gift-wrapped them in a tarp for you.

Don't worry. It doesn't match their eyes.

  The end.

update: i accidentally duped, here's the comments from the other one:

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FUCK THEM! (Pardon my French) (Score:5)
by btlzu2 (99039) * on 14:43 28th January, 2005 (#11506830)
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That is RUDE and distasteful. First of all, I'm not a fan of makeup. I like to see naturally what a woman looks like and I appreciate that. Women are not these perfect chiseled out of marble statues, neither are men. Wearing make-up propagates this view.

Secondly, again, that was a HORRIBLE thing to say to you. I'm absolutely positive you're lovely without one bit of makeup on whatsoever. If society realized that the women on magazines or in Playboy look like a normal human beings without all the air-brushing and make-up, you learn what beauty really is.

And that is my mini-rant for the day--summary: "Fuck them!"

P.S. I tried Chantico today with fdb. Humina humina was it AWESOME. We SPLIT one. :)
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Re:FUCK THEM! (Pardon my French) (Score:5)
by Abm0raz (668337) on 15:01 28th January, 2005 (#11507063)
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wow ... got some repressed issues about your eyeshadow not matching your blouse, btlzu2? :)

Being colorblind solves all those problems. I took friend of mine to my company christmas party, then out for more drinks later. After the 5th hour, I was like, "BTW, you look great toight." She was all, "Yeah, I even wore make-up." I looked and was all thinking, "damn, she does have eye-shadow on. Maybe I should be looking there instead of at the neckline of her dress[1]," but I said, "Oh, I didn't notice. That's the sign of a good make-up job, right? Either that or my color-blindness is acting up again.

-Ab

[1] yeah, so she's a real tomboy chick that's hot, but thinks she's ugly. She plays softball, hockey, volleyball, soccer, and drinks her beer straight from the pitcher. She works out 4 days a week and drinks 5 days a week. She owns 1 "little black dress" and its neckline[2] is as low as legality will allow it to be in public. It's really weird seeing a girl that owns more pairs of sweatpants than shoes, more sports bras than regular bras, and not a single pair of heels dressed up like that.

[2] Why is it called a neeckline when it's nowhere near the neck? Shouldn't it be called a "breastline" or a "cleavageline" or a "HeyguyslookhereIgottitsbutIamgoingtobemadatyouwhe nyoulookatthemline"?
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