Girly Deficient
Nov. 2nd, 2008 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You know, I often feel like there are girly-type things that everyone else seems to know how to do and at which I am just slightly hopeless.
Tonight's example? I've spent the last hour doing my nails and all I have to show for it is a barely passable clear polish. I cannot manage color to save my life.
Did I miss a "How To Be a Girl" orientation class somewhere?
ETA: I wouldn't even mind that much if I'd gotten the "How To Be a Lesbian" class! At least then I'd know how to change my oil.
Tonight's example? I've spent the last hour doing my nails and all I have to show for it is a barely passable clear polish. I cannot manage color to save my life.
Did I miss a "How To Be a Girl" orientation class somewhere?
ETA: I wouldn't even mind that much if I'd gotten the "How To Be a Lesbian" class! At least then I'd know how to change my oil.
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Date: 2008-11-03 02:19 am (UTC)Honestly, I don't think I'd bother with my hands except that if I don't I pick at the resultant hangnails and my hands end up a torn bloody mess. Not professional.
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Date: 2008-11-03 02:23 am (UTC)Ah, I never bother with makeup anyway. Too much trouble and it makes my face feel funny.
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Date: 2008-11-03 02:31 am (UTC)as for eye makeup- I've even perused sites and articles online that supposedly explain how. I still fail
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Date: 2008-11-03 02:57 am (UTC)::glances at area round laptop, currently occupied by base coat, top coat, thinner, one bottle of polish, and one bottle of 100% acetone remover; thinks about the drawers of polish organized by brand and the spillover shoe boxes, plural::
...and possibly that of just about everyone else here.
I can direct people to nail polish blogs! I think Nail Tech Secrets is still up, and it has fabulous directions! I, umm. Really, the only advice I ever give is that the trick is to be willing to fail multiple times while getting the hang of it, and as far as eye makeup goes, practicing in the privacy of your own home, pretending you're a drag queen getting ready for a show.
I admit, I learned how to apply makeup in drama class. From boys. Plus, I'd be forced to turn in my dusty Goth Card if I failed Makeup 101. (It's like painting or drawing! Only on your face! And sometimes other places! Yes, this is how I wound up with magenta streaks of Manic Panic staining my face and half my body once in college when I was bored and it wasn't 90210 night.)
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Date: 2008-11-03 03:09 am (UTC)That's awesome, really. I've read a bit and I know a little. Honestly, I'm reluctant to spend the money on the nail supplies if I'll still have to go to the salon to get them to look decent. Which is very likely given my utter lack of skill. It's cheap, I know, but ...
As for make-up, maybe that's the problem. I can't draw even a little.
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Date: 2008-11-03 02:56 pm (UTC)1) Throw away any tweezer with which I had trouble gripping the hair (all of them) and find one that I could actually pull with. The Revlon Slant Tip Micro Fine Tweezer is great.
2) Go to a salon to get your eyebrows done and from then on just pluck the regrowth daily. I go back to the salon about once a year to make sure I haven't gotten too off track.
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Date: 2008-11-03 07:55 pm (UTC)I didn't wear one regularly until I was 22, and have never gotten the knack of slick removal (either on myself - I always have to turn it around - or on anyone else - which understandably makes girls suspicious about how gay one is).
Apparently I need remedial studies in BOTH how to be a girl and how to be a lesbian - this seems way more basic than either nail polish or oil changing, both of which I am okay at. *grins*
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Date: 2008-11-04 04:29 am (UTC)But there are other things I sometimes hear other girls talk about as if they are something *every* girl should know, and those who don't are cretins - eyebrow plucking, for instance, and several aspects of intimate personal grooming come to mind - that I didn't know about at all. Not just knowing how to do them, but that they were things that were done by anyone. I don't think my mom was remiss in my education?
My dad did teach me to change my oil and change a tire, though. :)