80's Friday: Make Up!!!

Hey Y'all!

You knew it was only a matter of time before I got to talking about make up from the 1980s!
I strongly love the make up the 80s because it was basically like anything went. You could wear a rainbow of shadow on your eyes lips and cheeks, draw anything on your face...your face was your own canvas on which to execute art.
As a child, as i wrote about before, my first real 80s influence was Prince's Purple Rain where I dreamed of one day doing my face up like Apollonia.


She really is what I wanted to look like when I was a kid. Glamorous, sexy with a hint of sweet. She looks like the kind of woman you could be best friend with and still have to guard your man anyway. LOL. I wanted to emulate that.. Occasionally when I wear red, and have an extra hour on my hands, I do wear my "Apple Face" as I've dubbed it. And I haven't heard a complaint yet.
But besides Apple, what appealed to me was even more wild and daring looks.

Singer Cyndi Lauper

Strop drooling boys, this ain't a sexy fashion model. It's Kulture Klub front MAN, Boy George!

I didn't know YELLOW shadow even existed before I started exploring the 80s.

And Joan Cusack is the bravest woman I know to walk around looking like THAT, damn it! And that was her characters, AT WORK face!

And I cannot forget lips. All I knew of the 80s was the word "FROSTED".
Everything was frosted, mostly pinks. Black for the punks and goths.
I even owned a red frosted lipstick before the shade was discontinued.


Every so often I dare a frosted lip. Every so often. Not like that, since I'm Black and a shade that light will look like I've done something I shouldn't have!

Tragic model Gia with a frosted lip. Scary thing is, I've copied her eye make up more than I'd like to admit.

And last but not least, a VIDEO of yours truly sporting an 80s look!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu7gnTpknVA&feature=youtu.be