鬚根的特別處理

上次拍婚紗照，化妝的時候，化妝師問我為何沒有明顯的鬚根，好像沒有鬚似的。

當然，我有鬍鬚，只是跟其他人相比，比較稀疏，但如果我不特別處理，化起女妝時，也會有很難處理的煩惱。所以每逢是重要日子的前夕， 例如拍私影，出動漫節，出席派對等場合，我也會對鬍鬚進行特別處理。

其實所謂特別處理，只是刻意不剃鬚，留待重要日子前的一晚，便用拔眉毛用的夾，將鬍鬚一條一條的拔出來。記得最初做的時候，花了我個 多小時，而且每拔一條鬚也痛得要命，但過了那麼多年，現在也沒有甚麼感覺了。經過這樣的處理後，我可以享受到有一個星期的時間，面上 沒有鬍鬚的感覺。當然，鬍鬚還是會長回來，過程便這樣循環下去 。

由於我通常只有在某些日子才女性化，喜歡經常女性化的妳可能覺得我的方法行不通。那麼，妳可能要用化妝品幫忙。我的經驗是，MAC的 NC20 Full Coverage 和NW25 Studio 的遮蓋鬚根能力超好（當然要找配合妳的膚色的型號）。

另外，我的發覺我的鬚越剃，鬚像越粗。所以有時我甚至會在上女妝前兩星期，密密剃鬚，那麼在拔鬚的時候，因為鬚粗了，拔起來也方便 點。

朋友問，這樣拔，毛孔不是會變大嗎？這個嘛，我倒沒發現這個情況，或者是我粗支大葉的沒有理吧。

美麗，但很辛苦

昨天到影樓拍了一輯婚紗和晩裝照。整個過程歷時四個半小時，當中大部份時間花在化妝上。花了千四港元，價錢蠻合理，不過原來 要等一個 月才可以收到相片，那時我也不在香港了，要過一兩年再回港才看到結果。

其實當初決定去拍攝婚紗照，收到一輯漂亮的相片還是次要，最重要的是看看如果自己化了一個新娘妝，會不會好看。因為新娘妝應一個人最 漂亮的妝容。如果化了新娘妝後仍然不好看，那就不再扮裝也罷。我也想將這個新娘妝當作自己化妝的目標，有目標，才有前進的動力嘛。

今次拍攝學到了和領會了不少東西。
- 我的短髮look比長髮look好看不多，如果不是為了cosplay角式需要，也不會不買短假髮了。
- 原來我有幾個角度超漂亮，包括側面，七分面（多得我的高鼻子）和昂首；有些角度則超醜，包括低首和close up。
- 原來我的笑容相當不好看，反而含蓄地微笑，有一種神秘美。
- 我的上唇偏薄，上唇膏可以搽厚一點。
- 我一直用的脫鬚方法原來相當成功，繼續。
- 應該開始減少穿露肩膀的服裝，畢竟那男兒肩膀破壞了女兒妝容的幻象。
- 我應該買個girdle.
- 先選服裝，後選飾物。
- 原來民族味的手鐲，介指和頸鏈相當容易襯晚裝，可以多買。
- 貼fake eyelash 要由中間貼起，不要貼到接近鼻那邊。要先畫好eyeliner 後才䀡。
- 我要多練習用新式油性 eyeliner pen 畫eyeline, 不要不用鉛筆型的了。
- 我的面尖，落胭脂不要向側上方掃。圓圓的點紅便好了。
- 拔眉毛要拔下面的毛，不要拔上面的，現在弄得自己一字眉了。
- 保養皮膚最重要，不過的甚麼也需要做，就是多多睡。
- 髮型原來比妝更重要。
- 我的白皮膚配粉紅服裝很好看。

學了那麼多東西算值回票價吧。

One major advantage of baby sitting a booth for my friend

A teenage girl walked by and sat down next to me. She was the one who walked by the booth I baby sat at on Friday while I was convincing her friend to try out the maid contest. She told me that she hurt her ankle, and the showed me the wrap medical people did to her. I salute the medical people who stay up at night in order to treat all the crazy teenagers who hurt themselves for all sort of stupid reasons.

It was a short chat, but I enjoyed the human contact. Baby sitting a booth is so far the best way to meet new people as far as I tell, especially for me kind who rarely proactively talk to other people. When you are baby sitting a booth, you got a reason to lure people ton have conversation with you, and in a lot of cases, people came to talk to you instead.

Bubble

My friend said I am always living in a bubble, finding happiness in my own little world. While I admin that I indeed enjoying things in my own way, I also think that every single one of us are living in a bubble too. It's just that mostly of you guys live in the kind of bubble that shapes like the bubble you've seen from other people, while I tried to craft my bubble in my own way, and so far being successful. And for that, I have no regret ..... Well .... No regret so far.

Painting fingernail: still suck at it

Yesterday I suddenly had the mood to try painting my fingernails. I rarely do it because I suck at it, but of course you can argue that I suck it because I rarely do it. Anyway, I found that 5 out of 10 nails were done pretty ok, which is higher the success rate compare with the last time I did.

Let's see when I have mood to do it again.

Probably won't last for a few times

I really like the race queen costume I wore at anime matsuri yesterday. Sadly I found out that around the edge of the collar, some of the pattern already started fading. And that's when I realized that it was ruined by my sweat, which is something I cannot avoid since the whole purpose of getting this costume is to wear it.

Still, I think that's ok. After all, i did not pay a lot for this costume. So I think this costume is meant to be wear only a few times, and then put it in the storage as a memory.

By the way, I need to establish a system to separate clean (washed) costume and costume worn a few times, so that I know when to clean what costume.

Finally got some time to put some new photos online

Finally I got some time to put up some photos online. You can find them in this Flickr stream.

It's basically a showcase of some costumes I tailor made during my last trip to Hong Kong.

Among all the new costume, I like this blue auto show girl costume the most. I think I look reasonably good on it.