Makeup as art supplies!
Neptys
won't come back to haunt me).
Anyway, I was trying to explain it to her and I ended up saying that buying
makeup was like buying art supplies.
Anyone who is an artist (or used to be, like me) knows what I mean - - the
colors, the textures, the infinite possibilities.
*neptys*
BertinaR
my mother, who is an accomplished artist. The only problem is when I show her
my new brushes, she gets this wicked gleam in her eye, and I just KNOW she
wants to stick em in water color or oil based paints (over my dead body!) But
at least she can understand my expensive habit a little better.
It is a matter of infinite possibilities -- and I love it when friends who have
different complexions than I do get into playing with makeup, it allows me to
see how a different "canvas" can totally change the tone of a lipstick or
eyeshadow. And it usually opens my eyes to limitations I have towards my own
complexion and features. My only fear about taking makeup one step further,
and actually "doing" makeup, would be that it would lose it's fun if it became
a job.
Anyone want to comment on that?
~Bertina
Rweyburn
> That is how I explain my passion for >makeup to my mother, who is an
>accomplished artist. The only problem is >when I show her my new brushes, she
gets >this wicked gleam in her eye, and I just >KNOW she wants to stick em in
water color >or oil based paints (over my dead body!)
I found my husband using a Max Factor
black eye pencil as a drawing pencil. He
had no clue it was makeup. At least it was
only MF. Had it been my Stila or Longo
lip pencil , or Trish or Bobbi Brown brush,
I'd be a widow now.
Esther in DC
Lutachris
mine that make up (which when I was younnger I did NOT like) has become a sort
of "color break" for me because my job does not involve color/ texture/ design,
etc. and I like make up as a break from logical, linear analytical thinking....
OPEN2UANDU
>colors, the textures, the infinite possibilities.
Absolutely!! At 13 I had 17 red colorpencils - all different to ME.
"If your friends jumped off a cliff would you do it, too?"
"Well...only if there was makeup at the bottom."
C. Ross
My explanation to folks who don't quite get my passion for make-up:
walking into a cosmetics department gives me the same thrill I got as a
kid when Mom bought me one of those big 64-crayon boxes of Crayolas. All
those colors - all the possibilities! Now my face is my coloring book.
Cathy
EMiriamD
>kid when Mom bought me one of those big 64-crayon boxes of Crayolas.
EEEK! This is exactly how I explain my makeup passion to anyone who asks. I
can still remember the absolutel delight in staring at my collection of 64
Crayolas (with sharpener!).
BTW, I have heard several professional MAs say that they began as art students,
so the link is not such an oddity.
EMiriamD
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
Lillian Hellman to House Un-American Activities Committee (1952)
hortensia
EMiriamD wrote in message <19990402093153...@ng110.aol.com>...
>>walking into a cosmetics department gives me the same thrill I got as a
>>kid when Mom bought me one of those big 64-crayon boxes of Crayolas.
>
>EEEK! This is exactly how I explain my makeup passion to anyone who asks.
I
>can still remember the absolutel delight in staring at my collection of 64
>Crayolas (with sharpener!).
>
>BTW, I have heard several professional MAs say that they began as art
students,
>so the link is not such an oddity.
>
>EMiriamD
LOL - I feel the same. And I also loved the names of the crayons which is
probably why Trish doesn't excite me.
- hortensia
HMatz88888
I actually did an entire figure drawing/painting a la Egon Schile using a
Christian Dior liquid liner in black. It worked wonderfully.
I recently did a "make-over" on a fellow alt.fashion reader and it was quite
the artisitc and creative experience. Plenty of inspiration and decision-making
went into the process and when the "canvas" was finished it was quite
gratifying (moreso for me).
WiggliGirl
to force herself to not "work" on this particular trip - and she ended up using
her MAC shadows to draw ( paint?) little pictures of the island whe was staying
on. They were beautiful - looked like pastels.
I relate to the Crayola memories, as well. I still tend to describe colors in
Crayola terms - including the discontinued ones. "Her sweater was raw umber."
Wiggli ( formerly Heather in LA - I know there's a few Heathers here and I
thought it would be less confusing to use my screen name)
Stellaglo
>I love this thread!
>I actually did an entire figure drawing/painting a la Egon Schile using a
>Christian Dior liquid liner in black. It worked wonderfully.
i find that the stila dahlia is wonderful for recreating the feeling of picasso
in his blue period. i must hasten to add that i did use a bit of the l'oreal
water series to get a more modern effect. the whole thing fell together quite
splendidly. i shall next attempt a self portrait a la van gogh, using only
lorac products.
HMatz88888
>i shall next attempt a self portrait a la van gogh, using only
>lorac products
hmmm perhaps Van Gogh palette-brush style would be best suited to a heavier
make-up, something like the new Body and Soul. Try the foundation!
However, I shall try sculpting a Rodinesque prehensile gorilla using some Lorac
foundation from the remains of a rather miserable swap I received.
shin kurokawa
speaking as an alum of the nyc art scene...
quite a few of my art school classmates did end up
as MA's (and in var.areas of ther fashion industry,
e.g. design, marketing, etc.). In school you learn
quite a bit about light&shadow & color/texture
combinations etc., and a lot of that is like
cosmetics 101. :)
In article <19990402093153...@ng110.aol.com>,
emir...@aol.com (EMiriamD) wrote:
> BTW, I have heard several professional MAs say that they began as art
students,
> so the link is not such an oddity.
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Diane Hardin
And I thought you'd used all of it to spackle the nail holes in your
bedroom wall!?!?
-Diane
In article <19990404151404...@ng28.aol.com>,
Erica Bial
when I used to paint, I would often just add foundation to acrylics (with
a little soap if it wouldn't solve) to get a "skin" colour - shades of
which are otherwise VERY hard to duplicate.
erica
Neptys (nep...@aol.com) wrote:
: I admitted to a co-worker to day that makeup is my passion. (Gulp, I hope that
: won't come back to haunt me).
: Anyway, I was trying to explain it to her and I ended up saying that buying
: makeup was like buying art supplies.
: Anyone who is an artist (or used to be, like me) knows what I mean - - the
: colors, the textures, the infinite possibilities.
: *neptys*
Andrea Pound
in nail polish. They came out surprisingly well!
--
Andrea Pound
Dept. of Anthropology, Rice University
Nartian5
writes:
>>>walking into a cosmetics department gives me the same thrill I got as a
>>>kid when Mom bought me one of those big 64-crayon boxes of Crayolas.
>>
Ok, Confession......I used to buy skeins of floss because I loved the colors.
Later I did learn to use them, but before that I just bought them to look at
and touch.
Lynne
Vaniti99
>..I used to buy skeins of floss because I loved the colors.
>Later I did learn to use them, but before that I just bought them to look at
>and touch.
>
Me too me too......I used to buy glitter...all colors because i love it so
much....and sprinkle it in my hair and put on lipgloss and put the glitter in
the gloss....the funny thing is now i buy make-up with it already in it...i'm
26...<g>