“When I’m
Make-up Look
actually this old, I hope I still do my makeup however I want”
By Alexa Gordon. Lex Gordon is an Aries and also a Canadian university student. She grew up near the city but on a farm. This means that her personality is a wonderful mix of pretentious city slicker and down to earth farm girl. The best description she has ever heard for who she is was from Dolly Parton, a Backwoods Barbie. She is obsessed with the art of makeup as it provides a new and fun medium to create and tell stories with. You can find more of her work on her Instagram.
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his look is called Ageing Gracefully. It was incredibly fun to make lots of silly faces in the mirror to define and fill in the wrinkles that are already forming on my face. I love being outdoors so I made sure this older version of my face had freckles and sunspots. After doing the ageing portion of the look I went on as I normally do, adding my favourite blush, a lip liner, some mascara, a light shimmery eyeshadow that is just a couple shades off my own skin tone, and topping it off with lipstick my grandmother gave me when I was 5 that I still have, that is surely past its expiration date. I approached this look with only a single idea in my head “When I’m actually this old, I hope I still do my makeup however I want” and for me, that’s a standard lip, mascara, and enough blush to think “hey that person put on blush today”. 13
