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In full makeup, YouTube user AwakenRain looks just like a cat. But that’s not what’s so unsettling about this video. It’s that she sounds just like a cat at the same time.
-via Fashionably Geek
If you’ve ever wished your makeup could better incorporate scientific principles, then you might want to check out Sephora’s newest nail polish, one that creates cool 3D effects once you put a magnet over it while it is drying. I’m not big on nail polish, but I’d love to play with this formula. How about you other geek ladies?
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You don’t need a mask, just a good makeup kit and patience. BeautifulYouTV will walk you through the process, step-by-step. Once, you’re done, put in these anime contact lenses to really freak people out (the objective of all sound fashion decisions).
-via Fashionably Geek
It's conventional wisdom that women wear make-up to appear more beautiful, but according to a new study, there's another effect: they appear more competent.
Here's the intriguing study by Pyschology professor Nancy Etcoff and colleagues:
The study’s 25 female subjects, aged 20 to 50 and white, African-American and Hispanic, were photographed barefaced and in three looks that researchers called natural, professional and glamorous. They were not allowed to look in a mirror, lest their feelings about the way they looked affect observers’ impressions.
One hundred forty-nine adults (including 61 men) judged the pictures for 250 milliseconds each, enough time to make a snap judgment. Then 119 different adults (including 30 men) were given unlimited time to look at the same faces.
The participants judged women made up in varying intensities of luminance contrast (fancy words for how much eyes and lips stand out compared with skin) as more competent than barefaced women, whether they had a quick glance or a longer inspection.
Crafty Lady Abby went to a zombie wedding in full skull makeup. It turned out so well that she posted the makeup process as a tutorial for you. You might not have a wedding this would be appropriate for, but a Halloween party would be the perfect place to show off your skull skills! Link -via Laughing Squid
This video might make you think twice about being liberal with your foundation in the morning (if that’s part of your routine, I mean). Dutch directors Lernert and Sander coated the face of model Hannelore Knuts with a year’s worth of Ellis Faas makeup – that’s 365 applications of foundation (it took seven bottles), blush (two bottles), eyeshadow (two bottles of a cream-based shadow) and lipstick (three pens). The goal? To see “how much is needed to go from a natural look to an outrageous one,” they explained. It doesn’t take long.
Link via Laughing Squid
This is pretty amazing. Katie Alves recreates movie scenes on the eyelids of models, such as the above presentation of The Nightmare before Christmas. Other featured films include The Lion King, Aladdin, and Alice in Wonderland.
Link via Flavorwire
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deviantART user ~viridis-somnio created a lipstick arrangement that makes a mouth look like the Pokémon Pikachu. She writes:
This is a bonus Animal-ipstick I did for a photo assignment. It’s Pikachu! Everyone in class loooved this one. My final project was a total of 20 photos of anything I wanted. Mine is sort of a typology, but the only consistent element are my lips.
This video will give you a detailed description of how to apply a makeup that looks very much like the one The Joker is wearing in the Batman movie The Dark Knight.
Link [YouTube] – via Cakehead Loves Evil
Scientists from the U.K., on an archaeological dig in the Murcia province of southern Spain, have made a discovery that seems to suggest that Neanderthals wore makeup.
The team report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that shells containing pigment residues were Neanderthal make-up containers.
The team says its find buries “the view of Neanderthals as half-wits” and shows they were capable of symbolic thinking.
Professor Joao Zilhao, the archaeologist from Bristol University in the UK, who led the study, said that he and his team had examined shells that were used as containers to mix and store pigments.
Black sticks of the pigment manganese, which may have been used as body paint by Neanderthals, have previously been discovered in Africa.
“[But] this is the first secure evidence for their use of cosmetics,” he told BBC News. “The use of these complex recipes is new. It’s more than body painting.”
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