My 600-hour adventure in beauty school. (Learn more about the project or catch up with Orientation and Week 1.) Old-school “professional stage makeup box” from The Art of Stage Dancing by Ned Wayburn (1925) via Project Gutenberg. I apply my first Daytime Face on Thursday night. Loretta is my model. We start giggling while I fuss [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘week 1’
November 6, 2009
Miss Jenny, Queen of the Brazilians
My 600-hour adventure learning to apply makeup, excavate pores, and wax, well, see below. (Learn more about the project and catch up with Orientation and the rest of Week 1.) Vanity Fair writer Christopher Hitchens gets a Brazilian, describes it as “like being tortured for information you do not possess.” (No, neither of those women [...]
November 4, 2009
the daytime face.
My 600-hour adventure in beauty school. Learn more about the project or catch up with Orientation and Week 1. What’s your daytime face? Miss Jenny announces that tonight, she’s doing Daytime Makeup Applications on everyone except Tasha, who is giving someone a facial in the clinic with the other senior students. A Daytime Application, in [...]
November 3, 2009
class participation.
My 600-hour adventure learning to apply makeup, excavate pores, and wax, um, everything. (Learn more about the project, or catch up with Orientation and Week 1.) The lecture portion of class is spent reading from a PowerPoint presentation loaded above us on a flat screen, which corresponds to a chapter in our textbook. We go [...]
November 3, 2009
career in a bag.
My 600-hour adventure learning to apply makeup, excavate pores, and wax, um, everything. (Learn more about the project, or catch up with Orientation.) Having parted with $400, I am now the proud owner of: 1 FantaSea Deluxed Multi-Layered Cosmetic Kit. Yes. That is like fantasy, only aquatic. Their logo includes a swan — presumably what [...]
