I Want You to Get Sick of These Things

“What if I just wanted to play the intro to “Song 2” over and over on repeat?”

Thank you for this week Word Nerds!

As mentioned last week, I’m now trying to find balance in this ongoing archive while continuing to pour worthwhile work in. So, I hope this new piece is a fun little dalliance and that you’ll let me know about your week too?

See you next week!

My goal is that you will get so sick of seeing my “Soft Light Powder” face that you’ll actually believe a person who’s posting online when they say:

“These are the products that I use.”

I’m not totally sold on that name, by the way… but it’s what I’ve been running with in my last couple of videos.

I thought about calling it my “Blur Face” but that seems to imply we have imperfections TO blur…. even though “blur” and “balm” are my favorite textural adjectives when it comes to products and marketing, as well as:

“What if I just wanted to play the intro to “Song 2” over and over on repeat?” You don’t know me! (Just kidding. You very much do)

I thought about calling it my “Paris Filter” face because that’s essentially the gentle lighting energy I’m going for without reducing my actual freckles or features in any way, AND I’d like to believe I can stake claim to originating the “Paris Hilton Blur Spot” distinction for about a year now.

This is a term I’m radically unashamed of over-using that designates a highly specific pseudo-inch of the high cheekbone only, which Paris seems to diffuse with powder and blush in such a distinct way that it deserves its own name.

Thus far, I haven’t seen anyone else obsess over it as creepily as I have (good for you), but it’s worth some sort of official branding.

But since I’m not trying to actually use a filter, and I’m not trying to take away from my freckles or very real human face - the dark under eye circles and the sunken spaces that I refuse to warp or adjust with makeup, personally- “Soft Light Powder” is the latest lackadaisical name at the moment.

(I can do better. Suggestions needed.)

I want you to see me do this “face base” so often - just changing the eye look or the lip color or the shade of blush, etc- that we begin to realize that we all should have fun with products however we please… but we can’t trust a review or a time tested suggestion unless time actually tests it.

This one has taken me some time to solidify (but takes almost no time to apply, is drugstore, and doesn’t technically recuire any brushes)… and I really really love it.

I truly use the special items gifted to me by Danessa Myricks (her brush is perhaps shockingly the most worth it of them all) - so those will be items of celebration in videos for years to come since they’ll last for hella too long - and the couple special goodies from dear friends that I milk to every last drop and then wish I could get refills immediately …

But I want you to get sick of these things.

I’ve written about cold creams and manuka honey and (now) even diaper ointment for years and years now - check the timestamps, Fred- but with makeup?

I think I’m ready for “play” to also evolve into “stay”.

I want to be more walk than I am talk.

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