Make up!

Ladies and Gentlemen, hello to you all. In a few minutes, you will be coming face to face with someone who would most likely scare and disgust the majority of you. The minority might not actually display any sort of reaction to this person, except maybe, to ask where she bought her mascara from.

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, in a few minutes time, I, would be looking you in the eye. Yes, this (insert whatever word you want here, but not just yet, complete the sentence first) person would be right in front of you, and this person wears make up (ok, go insert that word now, depending on your reaction towards women who wear make up).

Let me answer the minority first. Its not foundation, just some loose powder from Shiseido's Maquillage series, which, I happen to feel is the best make up for asians with oily skin, particularly when you need to function under hot and humid circumstances. I do wear foundation though. On occasions where I feel I need to dress up a little more, and I usually enhance the OC20 maquillage shade with the face palette creator. The gel eyeliner is from that range too, in dark brown, which the sales girl recommended would be a best shade to suit my iris colour, and the mascara is really just from Loreal. There would be a day when I can afford to get the curler, lash conditioner and mascara all from Shu Uemura. But for now, I make do with curling them at least 3 times a day, even when I do not apply mascara. Yes I do wear eyeshadow on those 'occasions' too. I bought the limited edition silver palette from Maquillage. Yes, silver can actually be a very natural looking shade, as good as its gold counterpart, provided it is applied with the right technique. I always preferred gloss to lipstick, and now as I am scraping the bottom of my BE375 (this is about the most natural shade I could ever find), I would soon have to whip out the Sheer Lip Colour from my make up box.

Now to address the rest of you. Please proceed to uncringe yourself from the shock and horror of seeing a person with make up. And, before you proceed to bolt away from this freak of nature, let me tell you, face to face of course, that I never intended to scare you. Truth be told, I never stopped to think how my wearing make up would affect you. I'm actually more concerned with the fact that my BE375 is coming to an end than the fact that I wearing make up, somehow, goes against your morals.

Why? You may ask. Ok, sorry if I did not answer this immediately, I am in the midst of curling the hard-to-reach corners of my lashes. Done. Well, that is because I wear make up for no one else but myself. I enjoy playing with colours. I like to shade and highlight and create contours on a canvas. That's why.

Now, you may go and baffle yourself over my explanation as I work on the lashes on my other eye. I bet you are so thankful that I only have 2 eyes. Done. What is it I heard you say? Yes, from you, the one who hates make up and all women who wear them and has a deviant art account. Why don't I be an artist so I can play with colours instead? Brilliant. You seem to think that the word 'artist' is only confined to one who works on a deviant art account or carries a scrap book. Unfortunately, I do not subscribe to your way of thinking. To me, the word 'artist' is kaleidoscopic, and I consider make up artists to be, artists, as well.

Did I just give you a horrible tongue twister? Ok, go untangle your tongues as I apply my gloss. Lower lip done. Have you untangled your tongue yet? Upper lip almost done. How much time do you need? Ok both done. Why are you staring at me like that? Yes you. Don't pretend you don't know I know its you. Yeah you. Female. You look disgusted. Shall I give you a sink? What is that you say? That you have a different value system from me, and hence you think its an abdomination to wear make up? I have a one word response to you. OK. Yeah, simple as that. Sure we have different values (if you want to use that word, for me make up is just something Ifun, to ascribe it to a 'value' is an overstatement of monumental proportions to me really), so be it. And if it bothers you so much to look at me as I curl my lashes, I suggest you look somewhere else? At the floor?

Ok, for your own safety, keep your eyes on the floor. I am about to curl my lashes now. This might scare you to the point of feeling faint. Keep your eyes on the floor, I'm telling you.

Goodbye for now. I think you should have inferred the gist of my message by now.