March 28th, 2007
You know what I hate? Those women who put lip liner on that is several shades darker than their lipstick. Don’t they know it makes them look like clowns? Honestly, if there was one makeup manouver that looks like utter shit on everyone who does it, this is it. It’s worse than baby blue eyeshadow. It’s worse than clumpy mascara. It’s worse than goth eyeliner painted to look like an ankh at the corner of your eye. Just stop it!
I think the theory is it creates lip “shadow” so your lips look fuller – like, the edges are darker because they’re super far receeded from the middle fleshy parts, which are huge and pillowy and sexy like Angelina Jolie’s. Alas, the human eye is not so easily fooled, and you just look like you drew a circle around your mouth so horny drunk truckers with ten bucks to burn would know where to aim.
(See how pissy I get when I someone tells me no dog?)
I’m with you on this, though I think I know why it happens. Makeup, especially in modelling and stage performances, is put on at varying degrees of heaviness depending on how far away your audience/camera is. The further away, the thicker and higher-contrast it is.
Girls wearing that ridiculous dark lip-liner are probably trying to look like the model/star they like without realizing that they often wear makeup made to make them look good at a distance.
It doesn’t mean they shouldn’t wise up. It’s a reason, not an excuse. WISE UP!