When John was visiting his beloved children I had a bit more time on my hand than usual and I don't know why but I suddenly had this idea to photograph myself through my routine of make up. Not that I use that much mind you but I am always amazed how different it can make me feel. I know that a big part of that is all in my mind.
I mean.. I know that make up most certainly helps to make me look better, I am not one of these women that can get out of bed and look nice and fresh and wonderful. I am more of the type of hair all over the place, shiny fatty face and bland, very bland.
I must say that working from home doesn't help, nobody knows what I look like when I am on the phone on conference calls and putting make up on often feels like a waste of good make up so a bit of moisturiser just has to do, if I scare myself with my blandness too much I might go as far as adding a bit of lipstick or kohl to my face but that is it.
So, 'gettng out of the house to see other people apart from the people walking their dogs in Wemyss Bay' is a bit of an event which requires loads of attention and make up. You can imagine that a visit to Glasgow was a perfect reason to do it properly.
And I don't know why but I suddenly had to think about all the 'make over' things they do in the magazines, you can't open a woman magazine without one of those in it so I thought I would try it myself and prove a point while doing so.
On the left is me, freshly showered (so not so shiny anymore :-)) and me on the right WITH make up - I think myself it is a pity that I didn't take a photograph of my wet fringe down on the left picture because now you can't really properly compare how much difference it makes. What I notice from these pictures is that I have a droopy mouth!! Wonder if that is old age? But why only on one side of my face! My right mouth corner has dropped dramatically I think. I do think I look better with the make up but the difference is not as spectacular as I feel it to be if you know what I mean. I feel I look a lot better than this picture shows me to look. Erhm.. hope you are still with me.. my point being... if you take a before and after photo with a sort of the same look on your face the effect is not dramatic at all. Interesting is that you can see that I almost smile on the after one.. I suppose that is the make up effect, feeling better for it :)
But now.. to part 2 of my experiment... the following picture shows another after picture which is more like the ones you see in those magazines:
And I don't know about you but this looks much more like a dramatic difference, not only by the smile (which takes care of the droopy mouth nicely) but also because of the colorful cardigan I am wearing.
So.. lesson here... don't believe those make over pictures in those magazines, if they would get these people to smile and let them wear the same clothes the effect would not be that dramatic!
Note to self: Smile more but keep mouth closed because of crown
:-)
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