Day 12: Lip Gloss and Black.

"A picture of something you love."

AAaahhhh...

So I could very well have made this all about Jeremiah. He is the biggest love of my life, after all. But I decided to give it a rest and go to the next best thing.

Makeup.

I'm slightly obsessed. It is something fairly new for me, though. I didn't start wearing makeup until I went all angry in the 7th grade, but even then, that was really only heavy eyeliner and mascara. All about the black raccoon eyes for me! No. I was not really into cosmetics prior to about a year or two ago. God knows I couldn't apply it properly to save my life. I'm really not really even sure how it happened. I think it started the last time I went to Mexico. I remember that there was one time when my mom went to stay at the hospital overnight with my sick cousin. That night, there was no way I was sleeping; I was way too freaked out. So what did I do? I searched makeup tutorials on YouTube. And I've been hooked ever since...

It took me awhile to actually experiment, though. I started buying an absurd amount of makeup about a year ago and it has literally been months since I began to really play and create crazy looks. Now, I'm not very good, but I am practicing. Hopefully one day I can have half the talent of the gurus I religiously watch on on the Tube.

I think it's a beautiful art. Because it is an art, after all. It amazes me how makeup can transform someone into something so different. It takes real talent to be a makeup artist.

If only, if only...

I think that is what I love about it so much. I love the reaction some people get when they have a transformation. It's like..."Wow. I AM beautiful..."

And sure we can all talk bullshit about how everyone is beautiful even without makeup and BLaH BLaH BLaH, but come the fuck on. The vast majority of the female population don't look decent unless they put a bit of mascara on.

But I guess that's just coming from my own warped mind.

Whatever. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have makeup anymore. Crazy is the first, though. Let's just hope that doesn't happen anytime soon. I'm sure I've got enough to last me a lifetime. And in the meantime, I'll just keep experimenting.

But don't get me started on makeup brushes. That's a whole 'nother level of obsession...