How to apply proper make-up

I always loved putting makeup on. Not too much, but enough to look and feel good. Applying makeup is a skill that not everyone has. Maybe that’s why some people don’t even bother putting it on. I think make-up should be worn as an accessory and should blend with your personality. It is your inner beauty that will count most when the makeup wears off. I have a little experience putting makeup on but I’m not a professional. So this is why, I would like to investigate how to apply proper makeup. I’m going to investigate my favourite type of applying makeup, which is the smoky eye, with light lip gloss and blending eye shadow.

Eye shadow: Blending
Well I kind of knew this, but I wasn’t sure how to blend. You usually use three different colors: The base is very light, a highlighter for the bend and a main colour for the lid, but how to get them to look as if they blend nicely? Start light then go darker. Brush the base colour, apply the lid colour and then apply the highlighter. Also, don’t be too heavy-handed or you will have to start over.

Lip gloss
1. The first step of putting on lip gloss is very easy. Apply some amount of      lipgloss onto the tip of the wand of the tube.
2. Looking at a mirror, push out your lips and apply the lipgloss gently.
3. Make sure you do not apply outside your lip-line.
4. If you want, put your finger inside your mouth and pull it outward after applying. This will ensure that nothing will stick to your teeth.

Eye liner: The Smoky Eye
This one is my favourite. Perhaps there is no longer running eye makeup trend than the smoky eye, which most likely will not go out of style. The main idea here is to blend well. Also, make sure to keep all other makeup light or you might look like a clown. You don’t want the rest of your makeup to compete with your eyes.

Step 1: Holding your upper lid close, apply eyeliner from the inside corner of the eye outward. The middle of the line should be a bit thicker than the edges.
Step 2: Use a cotton swap to “smudge” the liner and clean the undesired makeup off your face.
Step 3: Dab an eyeshadow brush into a deep-light eyeshadow and apply over the eyeliner. Layering liner with a shadow can result to a great smoky eye.
Step 4: Blend shadow well, and then apply eyeshadow. Colour should spread out from rich and dark near the lashes to almost upright as it extends to bend.

Seen reading

Read some of David Daniel’s pieces aloud.
Done!

Can you see a relationship between the content of the text and the shape?

Yes, I can see a relationship between the content of the text and the shape. The text is similarly the written form of the drawing. His poetry is shaped like flowers, fountains, animals, goblets; words that make up these images are jammed or spread out. This makes us see and understand the shape of the text and the writing clearly. One of his texts is in a heart shape and has the context of the poem talking about love.

Record the name of a band from Craig Leonard’s DNA project.

Out of all those bands listed on Craig Leonard’s DNA project, I chose Harmonia and Dramarama because the sounds of the names are interesting.

How is the framing of these pieces in a gallery inviting you to see them differently?

The framing of these pieces in a gallery is inviting me to see it differently because the collection of street posters, mad scribblings, political screeds, religious rants, and paranoid raves expands our notion of the outsider arts to include the written world. Also, if we saw it outside, we wouldn’t give it a value or wouldn’t think it has any meaning to it. When it’s framed in a gallery, we find importance to it and look at it in an artistic and creative way. Therefore, we give it a value.

Record an idea or art movement or artist or writer or writing idea you would like to investigate.

I would like to investigate Arabic Calligraphy because it is very similar to David Adam’s poems. The context of the text and the shape represents each other in Arabic Calligraphy as well.

Arabic calligraphy can be called an artistic handwriting. Unlike English writing, it is written from right to left. This art is written as the Arabic script. Throughout the enormous geography of the Islamic world, it is a primary form of art for Islamic visual appearance and creativity. Arabic calligraphy is a symbol meaning unity, beauty, and power. The sign of the cultural values of the Muslim world is the artistic principles of Arabic calligraphy. It is not easy to write, as it has many rules. There are extra writings on top or underneath the words to change the sounding of the words. While writing the Arabic Calligraphy, a person needs to be aware of it or else it may sound something completely different.

This calligraphy is used in different places. The growth of it has led to the creation of different decorating styles that were considered to contain special needs or tastes and to please or impress others. The greatest of these techniques or writings are called Gulzar, Maraya or Muthanna, Zoomorphic, Siyaqat, and al-Khat al-Hurr. They are written in Mosques, posters, walls, etc., to make it look unique and appealing.

Calligraphy is taken from the Greek word kallos (beauty) and graphe (writing), thus in western it is understood as ‘beautiful (hand) writing’ of the Arabic language. The Arabic word for calligraphy encourages closer understanding. The translated word ‘Khatt’ (خط) is an imitation from line, design, and construction in Arabic language. The grammatical ideas are lost in the translated term calligraphy.

The letters are placed mostly beside each other, with connected broad letter spacing. A medium size bamboo pen and a patient hand can lead to Thuluth shapes.