80s Makeup

[azurelunatic]

From vidicon, this pitiless look at 1980s makeup.

I am happy to say that I do not believe that any photos of me exist where I am looking like that.

That's mostly because Mama refused to let me out in public wearing more than a little blush and lip gloss, in the 80s, because I was under 10. By the time I was old enough to wear makeup in public, fashions had changed.

swallowtayle and I got the most mileage out of the eyeshadow by creating realistic-looking fake bruises on ourselves and each other, just because we could. Yellow all around the area, and then the reds and blues and purples blended *just* so, with some green in the fade...

We looked ghastly.

Comments

[karlita.livejournal.com]

I survived that decade - fortunately I was a rebellious rock-n-roll wild-ass and didn't wear a lot of makeup - but photos DO exist - and the swept-to-the-side hairstyle passed thru - I think it was more along the lines of Prince - short on one side...

[dawn-again.livejournal.com]

I have a photo of me somewhere with 80's helmet-hair.

Fortunately it was halloween, so the makeup is purpously overdone.

[azurelunatic]

Oh! And the skyscraper bangs!

I soundly vowed, during that decade, to never double-pierce my ears, and that a crimping iron would never touch my hair.

A crimping iron has never touched my hair; my left ear's now double-pierced because of an obscure tradition in the Star Trek fandom...

[azurelunatic]

I was free to style my hair any way I liked... without scissors, and without styling products.

I should ask Mama to scan and send me all of my old school photos.

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

i want that book.

wantwantwant.

yup.

heh.

fake bruises

[perchta.livejournal.com]

I remember doing that too! Fake bruises were fun to do, though in retrospect I'm not sure how realistic they really were.

Re: fake bruises

[azurelunatic]

Mine were pretty damn realistic. Mama freaked out a few times when we showed them off to her, then she learned to look for that characteristic shimmer of mica bits in the bruise.