Shameless

by Leyna O'Neill

No I haven’t seen that show with Emmy Rossum and William H. Macy that everyone has been raving about, and I probably won’t.

The shamelessness that I am referring to in this    post is my own. I don’t often post a lot of pictures of  myself, but that’s not for lack of calculated self- portraits taken on my phone. In true girl fashion, I  love playing with makeup and clothes, coming up  with different looks, and generally transforming  into anyone other than myself. Ignoring whatever psychological implication that last statement has,  it’s fun. So this is just a little moment for me to sit in  the spotlight. I was in dire need of a selfish, vain moment without consequences.

*I don’t know why it had never really occurred to  me, but I figured out that the amount of makeup required to show up and look flattering on film is INSANE. I also realized that celebrities are  probably wearing a billion times more than I was wearing when this picture was taken. So…that’s gross. As I was piling on the blue shadow like frosting on a cupcake, I thought I had really over done it. And then I took a picture, and I realized that thick, heavy, disgusting makeup is the only kind that really shows up on camera.

This makeup was just for fun so I took it off about five minutes after I put it on, but I just really liked the way it came out, at least on film. The blue sparkliness reminded me of the dress that Ariel wears at the end of The Little Mermaid. You know, when King Triton turns her into a human after saying to Sebastian, “I guess there’s just one problem left…how much I’m going to miss her”. Am I reading into this too much?

*I have no idea why there are two different sized fonts on this post. I spent five minutes trying to fix it, then stopped caring.

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