makeup, malkin, and flat noses

I checked out Veronica's link to Michelle Malkin's redo. As much as I find the logical lines of Michelle Malkin talks detestable (I mean, the jumps in logic she makes some times are inane. I really don't care that she's conservative, but she's Pinay and if she's going to be a conservative, she might as well be a great conservative that at least seems like she has brains.) Anyway, back to where I was, though I don't like Michelle Malkin's writing, I must feel for her as a fellow Pinay. As a Sister, Michelle, honey, get a better makeup person. And don't let those studio folks slap on some generic glitter powder and over pluck your brows!

Her writing does get her on TV and dammit, if you're going on TV you might as well try and look good. And so, if you go the link on Veronica's blog, indeed, MM has gotten a makeover. Alas, she got a white person's makeover.

One thing nice about the Fiance is that he loves make up and fashion, so when we're in the grocery line I have someone to discuss the merits of the various fashion magazine covers. Many of the fashion magazines recommend as a rule of thumb that when plucking eyebrows, one need to start at the vertical line from the pit of the eye nearest the nose. And that all hair in between be yanked. Now for people with more of a nose bridge, the gap between the eyes isn't so big. But on Asians, to follow that rule religiously is just death because it creates this cavernous void between the eyes above the nose that one might imagine a third eye to be planted right there. Note how much further the eyebrows go in the "before" photo.

Now if you go to the link of the link that shows her on that Fox News telecast, it looks like her eyebrows have grown back a bit and she's smart to continually give the camera a nice side profile of her face, but that maybe just luck of where the host was sitting. Problem number two for her is that because Asian features tend to be flatter relatively to Caucasians, the makeup they use makes her face even flatter, no contour, diminishes shadows. At least by her sitting with the side of her face to the camera, it accents the shadows of the studio lighting thus giving her face more texture as it were. They light colored eye shadow doesn't help much either it just overemphasizes the gap between her eyes and eyebrows. (ie the surprised eyebrow look)

Locally, KTVU has good makeup for its people. Sara Sidner looks gorgeous every night. Malou Nubla's makeup on Evening Magazine has vastly improved since when she started hosting.

Grant it, I don't bother with all this foundation, eyebrow plucking stuff on myself, because I'm just lazy and secondly I'm not on TV all the time. But frankly, if you are in the public eye, this kind of stuff makes a difference. You don't have to be model gorgeous or paper thin, you've just got to look good with what you got. In going to gender bending shows, I realize that beauty is part makeup/clothes, but a big part is simply attitude and knowing how to take what you have and bring out the beauty.