I am easily amused: shallow makeup thoughts

[cupcake_goth]

In between editing things, I've been reading the reviews at Makeup Alley of Chanel's black nail polish. It's very fun to read the contortions the trendy fashion junkies are going through to explain how Chanel's black nail polish is So Much Better than any other black nail polish, and how it Isn't Goth At All, but Fashionable and Elegant, Dahling.



"This is a true elegant black. Slightly punky but not goth, it's the black you get from a soft black kajal eyeliner or the black of a true shot of espresso."


"So you think this is you average $5 black polish or even the Halloween black polish that Wet n Wild puts out. Yeah, I thought the same thing. I didn't want to spend $18 for a black nail polish. But I did. Think of that sleek black Maserati that when the sun hits it, the black paint emits many dimensions of its undertones-blues, silvers, greys, etc. Black is not black but more of an illusion of it as the light rays bounce off the polish. It doesn't look goth nor does it look playful. It looks sleek and sophisticated like that sports car!"


"Once it gets messy looking, your black nail polish goes from stylish to "goth"."



Now, I wear black nail polish all the time, and consider it as work appropriate as the strange, hyper-white tipped French manicures I see on other people. But, black nail polish ALWAYS says "goth" or "punk". Always. Anyone who believes otherwise has mainlined too many fashion magazines, and should probably take a little break and try and find their own style, instead of having one dictated to them every six weeks or so.

Comments

[water-of-fire.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you like my observation vis-a-vis the bloodline. That's how I've always thought about goth in mainstream media. It's odd -- they really do get it ever so slightly wrong, every single time. In some niggly, nearly-imperceptible way. Something is off.

I did just eBay a NIB tube of Inimitable Mascara for about $22 all said. I'll let you know. :)

You mean other cats drown mousies, too? I thought that was just Aramis' game. He'll take a mousie into the kitchen, deposit it in the water dish and then sit there batting at it and going, "Awwww, God, it's wet. Ewwww. It wasn't supposed to get WET."

[seven-veils.livejournal.com]

I gave a mouse with a motion sensitive little chirpy noise in it from a imbedded micro chip to a friend's cat and it played and played and played with it. Then one day it decided to drown the little bugger and put it in it's water dish. After my friend found it there and rescued it, it sort of warbled in a warped record sort of way when played with. A week later where was the mouse but in the water dish again. Never to be heard from again. That finally did the electronics in the mouse in. The cat lost all interest in the mouse when it no longer made sounds when batted around. Odd cat.