Does that Small Red Dot Really Make Your Eyes Sparkle?

If your eyes are less than an eyes-width apart, you can create the illusion of being wider set by keeping the inside corners of your eyes light & the outer edges darker. To do this, sweep a concealer one shade lighter than your skin at the inner corner of the lids. Blend well & don't forget the gray shadowy areas on the side of your nose. Take a matte eyeshadow in a medium-to-dark shade & stroke it outward & slightly upward from the middle part of your lid. the outer half of your lid. Take eyeliner & start the line just a bit in from the inner corner of your eye, tapering the line up and out, just a bit past the outer corner of the eyes.

And what about that other problem, which often (but not by me!) gets landed on the Stage Manager - make-up? Quite frankly, this is often the weakest point of many a school production: brick red complexions (Leichner five and nine strike again!), carmine lips, blue eyeshadow, the red dot in the corner of the eye, lake liner for shadows and (for the girls - usually, but I have seen it put on boys too!) carmine for blusher. And you end up with a cast that looks like a bunch of pierrots with high blood pressure! You would think that this pre-War (or is it pre-Great War?) approach to make-up would have vanished by now, but it hasn't. For Smike, when I had no time even to think about make-up, I was delighted to accept the help of a number of fifth form girls who assured me they had done make-up before, and what we got was this traditional make-up! Clearly they had been taught by someone who had been taught by someone who had been taught by someone who had learned their make-up at least fifty years before!