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Behold my makeup tutorial, boy

I know this is wildly different from my usual art posts BUT I have wanted to make it for a long, long time, because I love sharing any knowledge that might help someone else. SO...

If you (A) don't want to spend more than 1 minute on your face routine, (B) don't want to completely change what your face structure looks like with makeup to have a consistent skin appearance and/or (C) have cystic/nodal/regular acne that just doesn't go away no matter what people tell you to do,

then I give to you:

My One Single Product 1 Minute Makeup Tutorial For People Who Don't Wear Makeup

In which I bravely show you my face to illustrate

Before and after on one of my "best" skin days:

It's very likely this is common knowledge for a lot of people BUT I wish I had known it when I was in my teens and struggling with a severe skin condition I thought would eventually go away and never did.

[TLDR: It's a concealer stick that matches your skin]

No, having a skin condition doesn't mean you need to cover it. However, that doesn't mean it can't still hurt your self image, confidence, and relationships with people who give you unsolicited comments on it (because you want to throw them out the window).

SO HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED:

A concealer stick, my preference being Covergirl's CG Smoothers. They're non-comodogenic and somehow seem to help with my acne, maybe just because covering it helps me not pick at it.

Now, I am the pastiest, whitest shade of white, so I use two shades: "Fair" for my face, which has more of a pink hue, and "Neutralizer" (wheeze) for my neck because it gets even less sun than my face, and is both paler and less pink.

You might be able to get along just fine with one tone if you don't get acne on your neck and chest or have a more even skin tone, but the most important thing is to get the shade that matches your skin tone as close as possible.

To do this, either look in a mirror in the most natural light you can find and hold up your hands and arms until you find a spot that matches your face the closest, then compare the makeup in the store to this. OR.... Just bring a little mirror with you to the store.

STEPS:

1. Start with a clean face. (Wipe your face with a wet cloth if you haven't washed your face already that day)

Optional step 2. Put on a little moisturizer if your skin dries out and flakes, like mine does. I'm allergic to my cats so I use a medicated cream in place of moisturizer lmao

3. Swipe the concealer directly onto red spots, scabs, or bumps, and rub it in with your finger making a soft halo that blends in with the rest of your skin.

...and that's it.

You don't have to do your whole face. You're only adjusting the parts that stands out so they blend in and leaving the rest alone. Some days I cover a few spots, other days it feels like my whole face.

It can't always completely everything, but it makes everything much less noticeable. The shape of scabs may still be there:

It won't cover freshly bleeding wounds well, either... But it will cover the red skin around it:

Like with any makeup, always remove it before you go to bed!!! With makeup remover or a cleanser! Cheap, unscented makeup wipes work great for me.

So yeah, I'm 30 and only just now started finally seeing improvement in my own skin because I did my own research and asked a doctor to try treatments for hormonal acne instead of all the antibiotic approaches, meaning I'm on spironolactone and thus also a mandatory birth control. But hey! It's something.

Having control over how my face looks helps my confidence and self image, like controlling how my hair or clothes look. I don't feel like I have to wear it any more than I don't have to wear my hair short, I just like it that way.

I also hope that this might be able to help guys too, or anyone else who feels like they're not "allowed" to wear makeup but still struggle with the look of their own skin, since the lack of any other product means you really don't look like you're "wearing makeup".

Anyway, long post over, time to flee 🏃‍♀️

#yeah i saved it as a draft to the wrong blog and couldn't figure how to fix it #*wheeze* #but here u go

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me and the mutuals

#but with love #so much love

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More very sketchy, very unreferenced Call of Duty, featuring: the drama of me playing sniper, and Soap whining about it.

I am always impressed by the snipers that manage to get me before I even find them, or change up tactics to get the advantage if I'm wiping them out.

(..... And I am frequently wiping them out)

#call of duty #cod soap #John “Soap” Mactavish #CoDM #call of duty mobile #cod ghost #Simon “Ghost” Riley #modern warfare #crossfire is my chill map for obliterating people #so eepy

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Oh yeah can't forget this thing that rattled around in my head for days until I drew it.

#call of duty #ghost #cod Ghost #cod Soap #John “Soap” Mactavish #modern warfare #MW2 #comic #meme #art #he eepy #drawing ghost is so funny with this design #best eye makeup applier in the world #Foap

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Can't believe I'm Call of Duty posting but I don't get to pick the rot my brain gets infected with.

Most recent to oldest CoD doodles, including two of my favorite operators in the phone game, Roland and Iskra.

And a lot of Soap. Literally had to blow the dust off my drawing tablet but the brain rot was stronger than the burnout.

#Call of Duty #modern warfare #John “Soap” Mactavish #Ghost #CoD Soap #CoD Ghost #art #doodles #CoD Mobile #MW2 #modern warfare 2 #straight up clowning #oh yeah just a little bit of #whump #i guess #the fanfics do be slapping in the call of duty fandom #i must say

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Can't believe I didn't know I had autism when I drew this

Khim’s very early days after leaving Csilla. He may be wildly ADHD but he’s still an incredibly smart Chiss… He just chooses to use his big brain for stupid things half the time.

#congrats on the audhd diagnosis Khim #that's just masking #literally masking the thing i did my entire life that i based this comic on

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I’m just sayin…. @fan-fangirl-world you had a good idea with Leon and the corset vest okay….

It’s like fancy-dinner-party-that-got-violent attire

#it's repostober so here's Leon in his corset vest

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Is anyone else's "snooze Tumblr live" button not working on Mobile anymore?

#delete later #tumblr live #w h y

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Slowly easing out of burnout one doodle at a time! Currently it's by doodling critters from Beasts of Bermuda, mostly while at work.

The spooky Mosasaurus (named Meat), and the stripey Apatosaurus (named Zenga) are my dinos! The others belong to BoB friends :3

#Dinosaurs #art #colored pencil #beasts of bermuda #traditional art

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It is simple. I find a movie I have only heard bad things about (DOOM 2005) and I watch it and fall in love with it.

This of course means I had to make an OC (horrifying creature, what else?) to put in with it while I rotate it in my brain. It's a good puppy and it used to be a rottweiler several mutations ago.

Maybe it's just my asexual nature to see a movie with 0 sex scenes and so much gore instead and just go nuts for it.

Also, as a twin, I appreciate any media that DOESN'T KILL ONE TWIN?? WHY DO THEY KEEP KILLING ONE OF THEM?? LET THEM LIVE. This movie did it right.

#DOOM #doom 2005 #movie #oc #Reaper #Grimm #monster #yeah I'm thinking about Karl Urban doing an extremely good job as Reaper #and Dwayne Johnson playing somebody really menacing and unhinged instead of funny #the whole arc with The Kid #yeah #Destroyer giving the Hell Knight a proper run for its money

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To answer both: it SHO IS

There are many reasons to read Halo: Silent Storm but these are a couple of my favorite ones.

Troy Denning is a gift who knows exactly what I want to read in a Master Chief story.

(I would say this image contains John’s face but I can’t in good conscience call that an honest representation of his face.)

#sgt. johnson would be the one offering cigars to teenagers next to the highly combustible oxygen tanks yes

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OH THESE ARE WONDERFUL I am loving them so much.... Especially that good flowy motion 👀

In honor of the RE4 remake coming soon, I decided to draw some of my favourite infected Leon AUs !

AUs are from @erinmccomics @patchworktrash @prettyflyshyguy @the-squeege and @polarspaz !! Go check out their stuff ! it's great !!!

#LOOK LOOK #such good draws #Leon time

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This makes me SO HAPPY TO HEAR and I wish you many tangle-free days ahead 🥺❤️

Boy heroically puts horse conditioner in princess’s hair without a moment’s hesitation

#like my wavy thick hair self discovering what conditioner is for as a child

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Really important updates:

Remi is a small princess who likes to lay her head on a pillow when she naps, so I used my new sewing machine to make one just for her.

To my delight she uses it and I'm so happy

#cat #Remi #the princess

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Remi is a small princess who likes to lay her head on a pillow when she naps, so I used my new sewing machine to make one just for her.

To my delight she uses it and I'm so happy

#cat #Remi #sewing #definitely not digital art #i just thought y'all needed to see

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Thank you!! And yes, yes I very much did. Also, his grandfather’s name is a play on ingwane, the Zulu word for octopus.

Tibberone, my shark-aesthetic Sith Inquisitor whom I have been dying to draw.

#if Vilkas and Farkas can both be named wolf in two languages i can name my people sea creatures #thank u for noticing my language shenanigans