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  • Food
    • Stews
    • Duck Cracklings
    • Lisbon Inspirations
    • Roasts
    • Seafood
    • Vegetables
    • Drinks
    • Breakfast
    • Weekend Brunch
  • Makeup & Hair
    • E3 Bashes
    • Launch Parties
    • Halloween
    • Christmas Parties
    • Nail Art
    • Sock It To Me
  • Travels
    • Budapest Hungary
    • Tijuana Mexico
    • Lisbon Portugal
    • Madrid & Seville Spain
    • Stockholm Sweden
  • Writing
    • All For One
    • Tis the Season
  • Video
  • Anecdotes
    • A Fitness Challenge
    • COVID: WFH
    • GDC Recruit
  • Contact

​Always more a tomboy than a girly girl, makeup and hair were not something I paid a lot of attention to. Until I met my previous roommate eleven years ago. She would tell you I was work. So much work. Even clothing. To get me to buy into jeans was a huge commitment on her part. I've come a long way since Shin's intervention, and I'm still learning.
 
My view of makeup changed from something you put on to cover freckles to something you use to make art when I saw this Shu Uemura ad at a department store in Taiwan in 2015. 
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​Can I do that? For EA Christmas party. The answer was yes. At $26 a pot, I bought three metallic eyeliners: red, blue, and gold. Combined with the hair foam rollers, I had this for the Circus themed event.  
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​​​The super talented Mindy Lee (someone needs to snatch her up for a runway show already!) helped me pick out a sequin dress. Here is at the party with my lovely friend Sylvia.
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​​So then it began. Every party is a challenge to do something fun and different. My source of inspiration: Shu Uemura. As a comic fan to the DC and Marvel Universe superheroes, I replicated Shu's work on my eyelids, which aren’t the easiest to work with. My lids fold inward so much the eyeliners barely visible if it’s not at least half-inch thick. This means I need extra ink. The eyeliner from the brand is the only one that lasts for me. 

​My cosmetics: foundation, powder, eyeshadow, blush, lipsticks/gloss, brow and eyeliners. The basics.​​
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​​My high tech hair tools.
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​No mascara, fake eyelashes, or elaborate makeup kits or hair extensions required. And I try to reuse what I have as much as possible, including my wardrobe. This section shares my adventures in the costume and style department.    
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