A Dashing Duo: Benefit They’re Real Duo Shadow Blender in Sexy Smokin’, and the Unwritten Rule of Middle School Dancing (Circa 1989) - Makeup and Beauty Blog
Heart schoolhouse dances were the worst. I don't know why everyone thought they were fun.
Well…I know that there were some kids who probably had fun, like the kids in the popular clique who planned the dances. I bet they had a good time, but I never did. I always felt awkward sitting there in the bleachers, wringing my hands and tap-tap-tapping my lace-less Keds.
This was before it was OK to dance with a group of your girlfriends out on the trip the light fantastic toe floor, so you lot had to wait for someone to ask you, ugh! And then painful. Nobody I ever actually wanted to dance with would enquire me, which wasn't a large surprise. I hateful, I was beyond shy and awkward and nerdy.
I did go asked a couple times…which leads me to the unwritten rule of middle school dances (circa 1989), which is that 2 is the magic number.
I'yard thinking almost this because I've been all about "the twos" today. I'm rockin' a new eyeshadow duo and a new lipstick duo from Benefit — They're Existent Duo Shadow Blender in Sexy Smokin' ($24) and They're Real Double the Lip lipstick ($20). They're part of Benefit's new bound collection (available now at Benefit stores and counters), which is all virtually duos.
With the eight neutral powder eyeshadow duos and the eight lipsticks, and they're basically um… the whole bargain is they make your eyes and lips await bigger, instantly.
The shadows take a funky round sponge applicator, which you swipe across the pan (the pan has the two shadows stacked on top of each other horizontally). You swipe the funky sponge across the pan, and and then across your eye, with the darker shade closest to your lash line.
The idea is to brand your eyes look bigger, brighter and schmexier with just one swipe.
And you lot do something similar with the lipsticks. They have a teardrop-shaped bullet, with a slighter darker color at the tip, so that when you swipe the tube across your lips, the darker edge makes the lighter part in the eye pop.
So your lips look bigger. ?
I programme to do a total review of the whole drove soon, simply today was all about Sexy Smokin'. It's a dark, satiny, cool-toned brownish taupe, and a shiny, silvery taupe shimmer.
I'm all nearly the darker taupe, and when I wore it with my NARS primer last Sat, it stayed put all day long.
And then, back to the unwritten magical dominion of twos… It was one of those things that nobody always told my me or my friends. Ever.
You know how there were things that your friends never told you, and you had to figure out on your own? Well, i of them was that back in the late '80s at middle schoolhouse dances, you couldn't but move your arms and feet to the beat however it moved you lot. There were, like, actual dance moves that the kids in my schoolhouse did, like the serpent, the running man, the kid 'n' play and the robocop #datingmyselfsohardrightnow. And the unwritten rule was that when you were dancing with somebody, you couldn't merely do one of these dances… You had to practice two of them. 2 dances.
For example, you could do both the snake and the robocop together, or the robocop and the wop.
Nobody ever explained why it was washed this way, either. Information technology was simply understood.
Maybe it was for multifariousness, or mayhap it was because if you lot just did one trip the light fantastic by itself for the duration of a iv-minute song, yous would have been completely exhausted, because those dances were taxing! Maybe information technology was easier on your cardio if y'all did them together… 🙂 I dunno… Too funny.
And then there it was — the unwritten two-trip the light fantastic dominion.
The Santa Clarita Diet
In other news, I'm watching the craziest evidence on Netflix! It's called The Santa Clarita Diet, and it stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, aka the guy I e'er mix upward with Fergie'due south husband (conspiracy theory: they're the same dude).
It'due south about a family in Southern California, and ruh-roh! Mom is a zombie.
Hilarity ensues.
It's bananas! It'southward clever, smart and random, and it doesn't have itself as well seriously.
I'm half dozen episodes in, and there have already been so many times when I've gone, "WHAT THE WHAT IS GOING ON Here?!"
Anyway, it speaks to my sense of humor. If you requite it a picket one of these days, let me know what yous think. ?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
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