Makeup for a Night Out

I've only been bowling three times in my life. That's enough to discover that my bowling skill are extremely bipolar. I do really great--get spares and maybe even a strike. Then it's completely downhill from there. Or I get lots of gutters and suddenly get a spare.

What's strange is that I'll bowl the ball and it goes in this beautiful straight line toward the pins and I start feeling a little happy. Then, seconds before it hits the ball, it veers. I don't understand. If an object in motion is supposed to stay in motion unless acted upon by a force, what force is takes that ball out of its straight path?

I'll never know. What I do know is that I wore this makeup to bowling recently. It was a fun night and I thought it deserved fun makeup.

Except for the mascara, I only used the Coastal Scents Metal Mania Palette.

Makeup for Night Out

The blue is the color on the fourth column, seventh row. As the night wore on, the house lights came down and the blue neon lights came on along the lanes, making the place look more like a club than a family-friendly bowling alley.

Makeup for Night Out

The color in the outer edge is the one on the third column, sixth row. The bowling balls were brightly colored and looked like giant marbles. They would get stuck behind the pins and sometimes take a while to come back to us. They never felt quite right either. My thumb would get stuck and I could never get a good grip on it.

Makeup for Night Out

The red around my eyes in the one on the ninth column, eighth row. Red was the anger in my bowling mates' eyes as a girl came around offering them vodka shots over and over after they said no. After all, they had to drive home somehow.

Makeup for Night Out

That was the dichotomy. There were children having a good times with their families. But the music wasn't family-friendly and the alcohol roamed so freely that one would think that the bar had been closed so everyone had been forced to take the alcohol to the lanes.

Makeup for Night Out

The pink on the inner corner of the lower lashline and the browbone is the color on the sixth column, first row.

When the music is loud and the lights low, people start to loosen up as they let go of the stress of the week. But there's a tightness, too--tightness in the vocal chords because of all the yelling, tightness in the muscles because the legs are working harder to avoid slipping on the refurbished floors, and the tightness of competition as the mind races to tell the hand how to throw the ball and win the game.

I think going to a bowling alley during the day wouldn't present as many dichotomies. The question then becomes, would it be as fun?

Depends on what you prefer, so here's hoping you have a week filled with what you prefer.

Lying on the Grass and Looking at the Clouds

For this look, I used a lovely green from the Coastal Scents Metal Mania Palette (fourth column, third to last row) all over the lid except the browbone where I put a lighter color to highlight (third column, first row).



For the eyeliner, I used the black color from Avon's 12-in-1 Shimmering Eye Palette.



I put some Avon Ultra Luxury Eye Liner in Black on the lower lashline as well.



I'll admit this isn't my favorite look. I think I've blended better near the browbone, but I didn't see that until I saw the photos. But we make mistakes sometimes, and we can't stop learning from them. Interesting that applying makeup can teach that lesson sometimes.

And now for a few words about what this blog is all about. I started this blog as an outlet for my makeup hobby. I'm not an expert and I don't want to do makeup for a living (though I'd love to take a professional makeup course someday). Makeup is a way of expression my artistic side and keeping my life fun. I don't wear it to feel beautiful. I wear it to have fun.

So although I started this blog for myself, I want to give something to whoever is reading out there. And the only way I know how to do that is to tell stories. Over the past year, I rediscovered not only my love for makeup but my love for stories as well. So somehow or other, I'm going to try to tell a story in each post. It's what will set this blog apart from a few of the others and it's going to make it a bit more personal for me.

What kinds of stories? Perhaps a few will be things that have happened to me. A lot will be reflections about the books I'm reading or movies I've watched. And some might just be reflections on something I've been thinking about or the inspirations behind my looks. I'll find out as I go along. :)