Fashion help sought
Feb. 12th, 2004 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiOK, so I'm clueless on a lot of girly-type things such as fashion and makeup and all that (me? I had a dress code all through high school and spent college wearing something resembling jeans-and-t-shirts). And tonight MAB and I are dressing up all formal-like, which we do periodically but rarely. So I have a question for anyone who might be able to help:
My outfit for tonight is black velvet skirt-black velvet blouse-and-jacket combo, fancy-shmancy shoes. Do I need black nylons? Or are my standard tan-colored ones OK?
I know this sounds like a silly question to a lot of people...but these are the things I worry about sometimes.
My outfit for tonight is black velvet skirt-black velvet blouse-and-jacket combo, fancy-shmancy shoes. Do I need black nylons? Or are my standard tan-colored ones OK?
I know this sounds like a silly question to a lot of people...but these are the things I worry about sometimes.
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Date: 2004-02-12 07:41 am (UTC)Almost no leg shows, honestly. Just the bit from just above my ankles to the tops of my feet, the part the shoes don't cover.
And as long as people won't laugh and point, I think I'll go with the tan ones (and thus not have to go nylon shopping on my way home from work). Thanks so much!
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Date: 2004-02-12 08:29 am (UTC)If you ever want a makeup consultation, lemme know -- I do a LOT of stage makeup, facepainting, and street makeup. I have, basically, three makeup kits chez moi: street, stage, and facepaint. As long as you don't mind clutter and cats, come on over sometime and we can try stuff out. :-} Or I'll go with you to MAC or Sephora (or CVS; altho' the higher-end stuff is somewhat better and more fun, one can do okay at CVS, too) and play advisor :-}. (I've done this with a few other folks, and I've done wedding makeup for 2 friends, too.) My idea of makeup consultations is to find some "look" that you'd be comfortable wearing and applying that enhances your face -- NOT making you look like J. Random Spritzhead.
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Date: 2004-02-12 08:44 am (UTC)And I'd love to have a session of makeupness with you at some point. I keep saying that some day I'll go to one of those places where they'll teach you how to do the makeup thing for free as long as you, in the end, buy some of their products, but time (and $$) have kept me from following through. I'd be much less nervous putting myself in the hands of a friend than in the hands of a stranger.
And not looking like J. Random Spritzhead is always a goal of mine. I don't wear any makeup on a day-to-day basis because I'm so scared of overdoing, but for formal occasions, I'd like to be able to apply makeup with confidence.
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Date: 2004-02-12 08:45 am (UTC)(I love this "dress
As with moth things it depends
Date: 2004-02-12 02:37 pm (UTC)Re: As with moth things it depends
Date: 2004-02-13 07:36 am (UTC)In the end, I found a pair of black nylons, so I went with them - all coordinated and everything.