Man, I haven’t done a What Would You Do post in ages! Five months to be exact. I was supposed to write one once a month. Ooops. 😛
Okay, today’s scenario is something I experienced years ago and I’d like to know what you’d do if it happened to you. By the way, if you’re new to What Would You Do, it’s a series of posts where I come up with scenarios for you to think about and find out what it is that you would you if you were placed in that situation.
For today, I’d like you to think blue. By that, I’d like you to picture bright blue eyeshadow. Ready? Go!
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Today’s Scenario:
A friend of yours has an attraction to blue eyeshadow. She doesn’t really know how to use or wear makeup, but she absolutely loves blue eyeshadows, think they complement her eyes and tends to wear a bright strips of it on her eyelids. It really isn’t a good look on her at all.
What would you do?
A. Honesty is the best policy. “Honey, the 80s called. They want their blue eyeshadow back.”
B. Show her how do blend the blue eyeshadow with other shades, making it not so obvious. There may or may not be any visible blue eyeshadow left.
C. Do nothing. Hey, it’s not your business if she likes the colour. Even though she kinda looks like a clown.
D. None of the above. Your choice. What would YOU do?
My answer:
Years ago, there was a lady in my workplace who wore bright blue eyeshadow to work every day. Now we had to wear a uniform to work and believe it or not, it’s a purple one. Not dark purple or lilac, but Barney-the-purple-dinosaur purple. And she wears bright blue eyeshadow with her purple garb every single day. As she was a rather formidable lady at the office who scared almost everyone at the office, no one told her it wasn’t a good look. That, or no one lived to tell the tale. True story. 😛
I made the mistake of wearing matte sky blue eyeshadow once. This was when I was still living in Japan in 2005; I had only started using makeup and I had no idea how to blend eyeshadows. I wore this Wet n Wild bright and matte blue eyeshadow on my lids during the weekends and thought, oh yeah I looked pretty darn cool. That was before I saw a photo of myself taken by a friend with me in that damn blue eyeshadow (forgot to bring that photo back to Melbourne with me or else you’d get to see it too). I looked absolutely awful. I looked like I had blue stripes on my eyes that came out of nowhere. That was the last time I wore matte blue eyeshadows.
In the scenario above, I’d choose B. I’d help the friend in teaching her how to blend that godawful blue eyeshadow with another colour. Or just teach her how to blend the crap out of it. Unless I’m dealing with Ms Formidable Lady. In that case, I’m pulling a C and keeping my mouth tightly shut. 😛
What about you? What would you do?
pixiwoo has a few gorgeous tutorials using blue eyeshadows and I wish I could rock that look but blue looks awful on me even though i love the colour. if i had a friend who wanted to rock the blue look I’d show them the tutorials or suggest other colours which would look fabulous on them haha.
Back then, no Pixiwoo. Hence the godawful blue stripes on my eyes. Damn. 😛 Not everyone can wear matte sky blue on their eyelids, that’s for sure. *shudder*
I think it would depend on how good a friend. ..if a really really good friend then I would just tell her out right but I’m pretty mouthy so a really good friend probably likes that about me….if it were just a friend friend for a while I might ask if I could do her make up for her to practice doing it for other people as I have mua fantasies anyway.
Spot on with scary lady I think. ..the only alternative would be what happened with you and take a photo they casually see when hopefully they realise it’s not such a good look lol 🙂
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Err with the scary lady, oh hell no. Shutting up right there. 😛 That’s a good idea actually, playing makeup artist with the friend. Show her how you can play with blue eyeshadow 🙂
If it was a close friend, I’d choose A, then follow up with teaching her how to wear blue eye shadow without looking like David Bowie in ‘Life on Mars’ (google to see)
If it was worn by a random, I wouldn’t say anything. Live & let live I say . Unless they asked “What do you think of my makeup”, then I’d do what I would for a close friend…Which is probably why no body asks me for my opinion unless they want to hear the truth haha.
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I don’t think I’ve ever had someone ask me “how’s my makeup?”. Okay, maybe my mum. I just Googled David Bowie’s Life on Mars. Oh boy. Still, it’s Bowie. He can pull anything off. 😉
Most probably I would do B because it is a more polite way than saying you don’t like her look, hihi…. Maybe she wouldn’t even notice that you’re trying to change her look because she might enjoy the tutorials! 🙂
Haha I’ll probably send some Youtube links down her way. 🙂
That’s a hard one! If it was a good friend, I’d tell them and help them blend it or something like that, if not, I’d probably keep it shut, nobody asked me anything, am I right? :p
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See, not easy, right? I like your “nobody asked me anything” stance 😛
Ahahah what if we thought the makeup we’re wearing is TOTALLY AWESOME and somebody comes up to us and say “THAT is horrible! You look awful!” ? We probably wouldn’t take ot lightly also ahaha
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Hahahaha talk about devastated! 😛
My mom used to wear blue eyeshadow and did it well into the 90’s until I showed her Kevin Aucoin and his neutrals and she’s never looked back!
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Hahaha go Mama SkinScrubs! 😀