Personally, I absolutely adored your hair when it was short. It made you look so sophisticated and suave and stylish. Like this:



I've had bodywave perms in the past and was never impressed.

As far as makeup goes, I think you pull off a smokey eye amazingly well. Your eyes are so gorgeous and it just works for you. Clearly you don't want to do a smokey eye every day, but you could always do a light version of smokey for a daytime look and darken it up for nights when you want it to be more dramatic.

My best makeup discovery of 2007 is blush and highlighting powder. I never thought my cheeks needed color until I started using it. I love adding a bit of color to my upper cheekbones (and sometimes the apples of my cheeks) and then running a bit of shimmery highlighting powder along the very top of my cheekbone and toward my temples. It's a great trick that a lady at the makeup counter taught me, I think it does wonders.

One thing that helps me not feel plain, even if I'm plain everywhere else that day, is lipgloss. Tinted lipgloss, clear lipgloss, glittery lipgloss...whatever it is, it always makes me feel better about my appearance.

Either way, I think you are gorgeous.

MAC usually has great highlighting powders. The one I use is a mineralize skinfinish, but they are limited edition and only come out once in awhile. Right now they have these which I checked out the other day and looked great : http://www.maccosmetics.com/templates/collections/collection.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CATEGORY22036

Scroll down to the sheerspark pressed powder. Other people use MAC's Vanilla pigment and swipe that across the cheekbones to get the same effect.

These: http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P161200&categoryId=RPYMAL&shouldPaginate=
are also very similar to the one that I use.

As for a light smokey eye, you can do it with any color. Use a lighter color all over your eyelid, and a slightly darker color in the crease. Gray, Green, brown...any of those colors. It's a bitch to sort through, but mac_cosmetics is a really good resource for this!

I would probably go for pave or warm ice. I saw fashionette in the store - the sales lady was actually wearing it on her eyes. It was sort of dark, and if you want to use it for a highlighter, you want something lighter.

I think it could work well as a shimmery blush. You might want to go into a mac store though and make sure the color works for you. If i remember correctly it was a pinky-purple color.

Nope!

Here is an example:

The purple-y gray color is in the crease....well, slightly above the crease where it touches the eyebrow closest to the nose, but you get the general idea. It's where your eye folds when it is open.

Totally possible that you're just not using the right colors. If you're interested, I'd suggest going to a local counter (I am a MAC junkie so that's where I always go) and make an appointment to get a makeover. Most places are free if you buy some products, other places are completely free. Tell them exactly what you're looking for and they'll help you pick out colors and teach you how to apply it so it looks best on you.

I'd had to disagree with the part about the lipgloss.


Although I generally don't like short hair on women, and I persuaded you to keep your hair long before you cut it, your short hair did infact look very chic. with a side part. It also makes you not look like a freakish sow not looks as short as you actually are. :P

It's really tough for me cuz I LOVE long hair...but I probably shouldn't have it cuz it makes me look shorter than I am!

But anyway, shorter hair on you WORKS. it fits your face and your body type. so why not?

If you're gonna continue with the long hair (which I love) I'd say go with layers and side swipe (long) bangs...I wonder how you'd loook!! at least try it before u chop it off again. it'll be a fun look for you I think. Then you wouldn't have to get a BODY WAVE (?! wat the hell lol). Layers will add volume.

I suggest going to the hair guy I go to (Volcan...."like volcano without the o in the end") at Pro-Euro on GWU campus. He knows what looks good on women. (lol I don't mean to sound like I have an amazing haircut but he's given my friends some really good haircuts too :) )

Regarding make up...for everyday...go with light blush (go to mac - but don't let them persuade you into buying crap...just shop on your own lol...they're so annoying those sales ppl. they put some lipstick on my hand that stayed on my hand for a week and a half) and kohl (or the smudge pot from sephora) and matte-ish lips (lip gloss if dry) but not like glittery gloss.

was that a really long comment? wow.

pic suggestion?

lol, i used to masturbate to tara reid. a long long time ago. not now! :)

Back in these days: http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~cbybee/j388_u02/projects/CosmoMaximCover.jpg

I think maybe that haircut would be cute! And not something I ever would have picked on my own.

I'd like to see you in dark forest green eyeshadow or liner, or silver eyeshadow, with deep red lip gloss.
Long straight hair.

Hmmm. Possibly add gold and red highlights.

yes, you need to cut your hair again. your hair looks boring long. most people's does.

I loved your hair short.
I have nothing else to say. My hair is long and boring and I don't wear makeup except the occasional mascara.
Oh, and you're gorgeous. I would never ever ever think of you as plain.

The only thing I would recommend is to remember good posture. Shoulders back and head held high. Be confident in yourself. You are gorgeous in a unique and exotic way that you should be proud of, because it is as much about what you are inside as it is your physical attributes that people see when they look at you.

http://www.hairdohairstyles.com/HairStylePictures/albums/Midlength_Hair_Style/MidLength_Hairstyle32.jpg

http://www.rankmyhairstyle.com/images/hairstyles/3_1.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobedwards/2086790173/

I linked off of the ANTM group.

And I think:

Short. You can pull of the gamine thing. But I would like to see the eyebrows thinner. I think it would put a bit more focus on the cheekbones. You have such expressive eyes already, with the heavier eyebrows it really overshadows the rest of your face.