Month: May 2020

Mrs. Cooper (aka Shelly Johnson):  “Scarlett” doesn’t suit you dear.

Becky (aka Lili Reinhardt):  Well, I like it.  It makes me feel powerful.–Riverdale

Jessica: What color lipstick are you wearing?

Helen: Well it’s three different kinds. I blend. I start with MAC Viva Glam 3.

Jessica: Uh-huh.

Helen: Which is a great base, and then I add Prescriptives Poodle on top.

Jessica: Oh my God I love Prescriptives, it’s the best.

Helen: I know, isn’t it?

Jessica: The moisture and the . . . It’s great.

Helen:  Then I finish with Philosophy Super Natural Nude, which is more of a . . .

Jessica: Of a glossy, kinda?

Helen: Exactly, a little bit of shine.—Kissing Jessica Stein

Lili Kathleen Hardy is cute and a beaut who walks with aplomb and spunk to spare.  What’s not to love about this Miss Ooh La, Montana girl, who once marched midway into a Taco Tuesday party with a loaf of ready-made garlic bread under her arm.

“This is just for me,” as she deftly heats the oven to 350 degrees.

Lil Lil’s tagline: “Garlic, I’m interested.”

Write Between the Lines is interested in Lil Lil’s beauty routine.

Through the looking glass, she graciously takes time to teach good face.  Apply the maquillage to the visage.

Lili:  So, what I do first thing, if I know I’m going to put my makeup on within the next hour, is moisturize.  Prep my face so it’s hydrated and sticky.  I won’t moisturize after I wash my face, if I have more time.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: What’s the rationale?

Lili:  Moisturizing serum.  I always start with my eyebrows, always. 

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: Side note:  We both go to Chandler Husband at the Beauty Strip for waxing.

Lili:  Omg, luv Chandler.  Shape the brows with concealer.  Eyebrow pencil and a pomade.  If I don’t really care, I’ll just use a pencil.  I’ll always start back to front: fill in the eyebrow up to the front fourth.  Blend it out with the spoolly brush using super simple hair strokes.  Blend it out again so it’s not so harsh.  More natural, not so blocky.

Then, I will set them with clear brow gel I like twice instead of once, so I know they’ll stay if I go out all day.  Next, I’ll shape the brow with Anastasia “soft glam” palette, Jouer Cosmetics Essential High Coverage Liquid Concealer, so I know the shape they’ll take.  I always start on the top part of below my brow.  After the bottom I’ll do the top, same thing: create shape that stands out in sharp relief to the skin.  If I make it too thin on accident, or I don’t shape it well enough, I’ll go back in with a brush.

Lili checks her look in the mirror and kicks up her heel.

Lili: Next eyes.  I like to prime with concealer, then blend it out.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: Why not foundation first?

Lili: Tons of fallout and it messes up your face.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: How do you choose your color?

Lili: I just look at the palette.  I set my eyelids with translucent powder so it doesn’t crease.  Tap, not swipe.  Hmmm. Transition shade.  Matte or shimmery?

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: Matte.

Lili:  Burnt orange.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: Is that the same palette I use?

Lili:  It’s Anastasia’s Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette.  You have Modern Renaissance.  I do beat it into a pulp, using this Morphe M167.  Blend with a big fluffy brush.  Build up the transition color.  Darker, Darker, Darker.  Don’t go too fast.  The transition color can be lighter or darker; neutral blends everything together.  Deepen the crease brush fluffy more tapered Lexi 249.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: When did you start playing with makeup?

Lili:  Twelve?  I started doing it in 7^th grade.  I got serious when I was fifteen.   I didn’t get good at it until I was sixteen, seventeen.  That’s when I could actually pull off full glam looks and not feel stupid.

Lili’s hip shifts to one side, her feet Battement tendu into second position.

Lili:  Once I’m done with the eyelids: eyeliner.

Lili locates the Kat Von D Tattoo Liner.

Lili:  Yep, it’s a banger.  My holy grail.

Wing flipping back and forth swoop with precision light brush strokes.  Stops to admire the thick wing line that frames the matte shadow.

Peaches and cream complexion.  Button nose, nary a blink.

Lili:  Then I’ll check if the length to see if one is thicker or longer than the other.  If so, I’ll make adjustments.  False eyelashes:  Black lash glue if I have liner, clear glue if I don’t.  Glue on first until it’s tacky then I’ll put on mascara.  I won’t curl them at all.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: Which mascara do you use?

Lili:  It literally changes every day.  I pick at random.  Loreal Telescopic Volumizer is a really good drugstore mascara dup for Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara.

“I do my hair toss, check my nails
Baby, how you feelin’? (Feelin’ good as hell.)” Lizzo

Prep and prime.

Lili:  Eye cream if I just washed my face.  Put on the moisturizer with little dabs.  While this setting in the skin, I get out my beloved beauty blender.  I change it every three months.  Always get your bb damp so it expands.  I wring it out with a towel, and let it sit while I prime my face using a lil Bye Bye Pores primer t-zone.  Also, sometimes if you take too much pore filler, it balls up in your hand that’s how you know.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: Where do you buy your products?

Lili:  Sephora and Ulta.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻: Nigel’s gives us the NoHo neighborhood discount.

Lili:  Foundation literally depends on what is the right shade of face.  At home I use a tray.  While traveling, I put it on my hand, then dot it all over my face.  Polka dots. I like to use a brush to blend it.  It’s just not attractive to see a line between foundation and the real face.  Concealer under eyes, dab with beauty blender.

Big fluffy brush with translucent powder.

Contour.

🆆[🅱🆃]🅻:  Blush changes every day. 

She plumps up a half smile for the apple of the cheek, and brushes the blush swiftly away towards the hairline.

Lili:  Melt everything into your face so it’s not so cakey.  Fan everything with the highlight’s brush.  Put some on my nose and cupid’s bow.  If it’s too intense, blend it out a little.

Highlight brow bone matte on my eyes’ inner corner is my fave thing to do.  Eyeliner outer corner of my lash line blend out with brush.  Urban Decay setting spray 30 sprays drench my face doesn’t move for the rest of the day.

Touch ups.  Brush teeth.  Do lips.  Outline with Kylie Cosmetic Candy K.  It is my basically my lip color, but better.  Fenty lip gloss, and that’s it.

Write Between the Lines takeaway?  Blend always.  Lili blending in? Hard(l)y.