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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Saturday, June 18, 2005 1:53 AM (Eastern)
I was reading the Face Of The Day thread for today...who came up with the idea of having a FOTD thread? When I read my first one (circa 1998), I was, simply, astounded. It had never occurred to me to post the makeup you have on your face for the day.
And for a long time...years...I did not post my FOTD much; certainly not every day. Partly I suppose, I was still tinkering with what to do with makeup in the first place.
Now it all feels so natural. My FOTD's are not particularly creative...and some are truly artistic, like a painting...but, it is what I'm wearing.
Today I noticed that many of the FOTD's consisted of a lightish green eyeshadow of some sort, paired with pink or purple. (Granted, the FOTD'ees today tended to have green or hazel eyes.) This has become a rather quintessential Lipstick Page eye, I think. It's more universal than either the orange and purple eye, or the orange and green eye (which hinge on one's ability to wear orange eyeshadow in the first place); purple and green, or pink and green, can be worn by pretty much anyone.
My eye today had one of my favorite eyeshadows, Milani Golden Bronze. This is slightly greenish gold. I pretty much always wear this shade with purple of some sort. Today it was MAC Permaplum Powerpoint eyepencil (deep, smoky, blue-based purple). Other times I'll wear it with MAC Trax eyeshadow (this is purple with almost an equal amount of gold, with a strong rose tone). Golden Bronze is good with MAC Bordeauxline Powerpoint (deep neutral purple with a reddish cast).
Another favorite of the Lipstick Page FOTD is clear pink blush. I'll guess most of us on the board own one and wear it fairly often--from Benefit Dandelion to MAC Angel to Cargo Catalina (that's mine) to Nars Desire...some form of clear pink sans brown, peach, wine, etc.
Many of us own MAC Blot pressed powder. I would never have tried this on my own (I don't recall so much as reading about it outside the boards), but it's marvellous. Next to transparent, yet blots oil and shine all day, most days, for my super oily skin. Well worth stepping out of the drugstore (before Blot, I'd tried Cornsilk, Almay, Maybelline, etc.).
Hm. We are a small board, but, over the years, I like it that way. I've read so many FOTD posts...there is truth in reading what people wear, day after day, year after year. After a while you sort of absorb it.
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