"On the other hand, a lot of anti-makeup sentiment– particularly anything that starts talking about how “frivolous” and “shallow” makeup is– is also misogynistic and femmephobic. Makeup is a form of visual art. If making your face beautiful is shallow, so is making a canvas beautiful or a block of marble or a hunk of plastic. If you understand why someone would feel satisfied and happy when they make a gorgeous print, you understand why someone would feel satisfied and happy when their makeup looks perfect. I do not think it is accidental that the form of visual art almost entirely practiced by women is the one that gets accused of frivolity and where the talent exhibited by many of the artists is ignored or denigrated."
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Other People’s Makeup Use: None Of Your Business – Ozy Frantz’s Blog (via brute-reason)
Bring it.
You try painting a freaking star or vines on a curving cheekbone on a breathing, sweating person. Or reproduce an open wound. Or do a full body sculpt, recreating tiny muscle details that blend into the model’s actual skin and allow full body movement. Or mixing up a pigment and adhesive that will not burn your actor’s skin if they have an allergy. Or figuring out before hand how to remove a make up Hell, something as simple as matching a skintone, is an art in itself. It took me until college to figure out how to do my own make up fairly well, let alone someone else’s.
Make up, either every day use or special effect, is art. It is great and highly challenging art. It makes you crazy because, unlike other art forms, your canvas has to breath, can feel pain, and might move prematurely and destroy hours of hard work.
It’s art. There is no argument.
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lilepop:

MY GOD. SO FUCKING CUTE!
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