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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

What kind of face is that, anyway?

SUMMARY: Makeup
Backfill: Typed this May 20, 2019...:oops, why didn't I post it?  --- MARCH 25: Added first-grade class photo.

True story about me: When I was about 35, I went to a stylist who suggested that I try false eyelashes or at least mascara. I said no. But she talked me into finding a very pale mascara (light brown, I guess), which was hard to find, and it was OK, i suppose. Never used it much. But that's me--because my lashes are so short and straight, they needed a tiny bit of curling to show up even then. All too much of a pain for such tiny lashes. My newest cousin infant is lucky to have naturally long, curled-up eyelashes.

Me, at eighteen. What I think is interesting about this is that my eyes have always been listed as blue. When I got my first license, I asked the clerk something about the color, and she agreed blue. They sure don't look blue here!


Class photo, 1st grade -- they do look a bit blueish; I'll have to go find any photos at all from my youngest youth to see how blue they really looked.




My eyes today. About the color they've always been, I think.  Sort of bluish greenish. The Colors person I went to (different from Stylist) suggests bright teal or BLUE as my most flattering colors ("Dramatic", as in, if I walk into a room and I want people to notice ME and I'd look great in them--based some on eye color but also on skin tone). But see what she  put for Eye Tones? Not blue!




Me at 50. Depends on the light, too, I suppose.


Me at 47.


Added Oct 20, 2019:

Me, now. (Cell phone selfie, hence not so sharp, but colors are ok.) Not really blue...?


3 comments:

  1. Grey? Green? Definitely not fully blue...lots more interest than just blue. Says me who has blue eyes. I think. I haven't looked in awhile, maybe I'm just assuming what I've been told my whole life is true.

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    1. Funny, isn't it. I think that I always saw my eyes as blue when I was younger. Of all of the very-young-ellen photos that I or my dad have scanned in so far, it's impossible to tell; I'll have to go scouting at some point. Maybe my school portraits? This is the only one I see so far that has some color other than "darkish", and it does look vaguely blueish--- Oh, I can't put images in comments? Darn it. Maybe I'll just add it to the post somewhere.

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