Ok, so I love watching makeup tutorials on Youtube (did I mention that Youtube is an absolutely amazing phenomenon?), all sorts of makeup, all sorts of artists, even watched a guy do makeup on himself (not very enjoyable I must say) and then I come across tutorials on how to attach falsies. To those of us who aren't familiar with MUA jargon (MUA means MakeUp Artisit by the way), falsies are false eyelashes. Are you kidding me?, the tutorials look so freaking EASY! 'I can surely do this' I tell myself, all I need are the falsies, some glue and I'm an award winning falsie-fixer! Funny enough, I could never summon up the courage to buy any till I went into makeup full time. I attended the IMATS in London (International Makeup Artist Trade Show) and bought myself some nice human hair falsies (I didn't even know they made them in human hair!) and some glue of course with the strong intention of practising my tutorial - gained prowess sometime soon. I return to Nigeria and as I occasionally do, procrastinated.
I finally get the ample opportunity, Olayinka and I will be going out to see an evening movie and I want to look fab, it won't take me 5 minutes to fix them just like on Youtube....my darlings, I'm in the bathroom for a good 30 odd minutes struggling to glue strip lashes to my eyes, not to mention that there is no electricity so I'm also sweating heavily. I finally tell myself I have tried jare, at least they are on my eyes, it can't be too bad and I announce to Olayinka that I'm set. We get outside into natural light and Olayinka looks at me and says, where's the makeup you said you wanted to put on? (you see I had told him I was going to put on makeup, well...eyelashes are makeup too) I instantly cower and say sheepishly that I decided not to anymore since I had wasted so much time fixing falsies. I don't need to tell you that he had a good laugh and asked to inspect the lashes closely. In conclusion, I pulled off my lashes before getting to the cinema for fear of looking weird as I had not done a good job at all.
Lesson learned - do not believe you can perform an activity 'perfectly' until you have tried. I came away telling myself that 'practice comes before perfect' and not the other way around.
Always,
Olusola :)