Call it boredom, call it curiosity, call it whatever you want – but somehow I came up with the great idea to have my boyfriend do my make-up for me. After a significant amount of resisting, I promised him that he would never have to do anything like this ever again (maybe). Disclaimer: If you’re reading this in class, you might want to save it for later unless you feel like laughing out loud in the middle of your lecture.
My Thoughts Beforehand:
I’m terrified but also excited. This should be pretty entertaining. My expectations are fairly low, but at the same time, he’s very handy and his mom taught him how to paint very well… so we’ll see.
His Thoughts Beforehand:
Please don’t make me do this. Is this punishment for not paying attention when you do your make-up normally?
His Plan:
I didn’t really know what I was doing, I just thought I would get a base down and then work my way up. So face make-up and then stuff like eyelashes and lips and that kind of thing.
So I took off all of the make-up I currently had on (which wasn’t very much), explained what everything was, and let him go for it.
Step 1: Face
I was impressed with how he applied the concealer, pretty much the same way I do, but that’s where the positive vibes ended for the face make-up. After I corrected his technique as to not ruin my foundation brush, he started to re-gain a little bit of my faith. Quite the sense of false hope. Next, he went straight for my darkest bronzer. I’m pale to begin with and it’s winter. And quite honestly, I really have no right to own a bronzer that dark in the first place. So, yeah… this was my face after that happened:
Step 2: Lips
Not much to work with here, I literally only had one lip gloss with me, so he breezed through this step with flying colors.
Step 3: Eyeshadow
I wasn’t sure what direction he was going to take this in, usually I’m very neutral with my eyeshadows – browns and golds, the occasional smokey eye for the bars, but still, a very tame smokey eye – and I think sometimes he wishes I would be bolder with it. Well, he said he wanted to do a smokey eye as well as include the purple. I just closed my eyes and took a deep breath, I was already in for the long run. He was super sweet and made sure that he wasn’t pressing too hard, so he gets points for that. Really, if he had just blended a little more, it probably wouldn’t have been that bad.
Step 4: Eyeliner
Now this is something I was very curious about. I gave him a wide array of liquid, pencil, and crayon-type eyeliners. He went with a sparkle-y black liquid. Bold choice. Instantly, I knew I had put too much confidence in him. It looked better than it felt – in the sense that it wasn’t as shaky or all over the place as it felt… just nowhere near where it should’ve been. Hey, he tried.
Step 5: Mascara
Yeah… I did this myself, I wasn’t risking getting poked in the eye. He wasn’t very pleased with his work, so he made me apply my mascara without using a mirror (something I’ve never done before) which went smoother than I thought it would!
Without further ado, I give you the finished product:
My Final Thoughts:
Hey, he tried. In some ways it’s not as bad as I thought it would be. I mean, he actually tried when he could’ve easily just made a complete joke out of it. Props for being a good sport, babe!
His Final Thoughts:
I don’t think it looks that bad! Although, I would’ve liked a redo on the eyeliner, I immediately knew it was way too high but I didn’t know how to fix it without just filling it all in and making it way too thick. Luckily, I’ll never have to do it again!
Images: Cover, all others belong to author