I really hit the paint pots when I go to Science Fiction Conventions. Glamour means more than Hollywood beauty if you know your mythologies. I like glittery eyeshadows, and the opportunity to play. For business use, I paint the face so that it is not too obvious that there is makeup, but the result looks dressed and put together instead of raw-out-of-bed. The amount of makeup depends upon the time of day and the lighting, and whether I'm going to have to wear the same face all day and half the night. Bright sunlight is murder on a painted face (we can look a lot older), but full sun isn't good for skin anyway. I'll use a foundation: Covergirl ivory (being pale) even when hiking in the Yosemite high country because it has SPF 15 or something like that and lasts all day despite possible sweating. Flourescent lights make everybody look 3 days dead, so a bit of magic there helps cheer the spirits. Are you going to be under kleig lights? They are hot as well as bright and a film of powder is worn by men as well as women to give the skin a matte look under the circumstances. Bald men on camera have to watch out for chrome-dome effects, too! Even if no other makeup is worn, a faint dusting of powder will even the skintones and keep the shine at bay. (Do you want the viewers to see your eyes or your forehead?) Makeup is designed to draw the eye to what is attractive and away from what isn't. I have decent, interesting eyes and can make them look green or purple or blue with the right colors of shadows... yes multiple colors. I use liner and mascara. It is all illusion. My entire face is curved (late born children spend more time on one side or something during development) and I don't like the mouth... so there is neutral makeup there and no lip-gloss, no liner... just enough lipstick to cover. There are eyeliners and mascaras in different colors, but I haven't found a reason to go much beyond navy, brown, or black. A bit of blush on the cheekbones will enhance them and make eyes sparkle more. Ladies with a lot of pink in their skin (not me, but I have Irish friends) can use a green foundation to reduce the ruddiness while keeping the glow. Blush colors can go from orange through pink to purple, and you need to know and work with the underlying skin tone so that blush or rouge doesn't look spotted on top but as though the color comes from the depths of the skin! People with a steady hand can smooth the sides of the nose or jawline with a slightly darker shade of their foundation. (This ought not be so strong as to look theatrical unless you are in costume and need the effect.) A snitty bitch of a woman wrote a make-up book several years ago, declaring that blue eyeshadow ought to be illegal. Why? She has brown eyes and thinks the color looks fake. There is nothing wrong with blue eyeshadow if you have the right color eyes and skin. She also derided women who wear makeup matched to their clothing. Well, a properly-dressed woman knows what colors look good next to her face, so they probably look good ON her face! If I am wearing a purple blouse I might be wearing purple makeup, or the shadow tones which will make my eyes appear purple... my choice. Women will usually set a style of makeup in their dating years, say about age 20, and it will be influenced by what everybody else thinks is attractive (plucked brows, cupid-bow lips, yellow gloss, whatever) and they usually continue to put it on the same way decade after decade. (I'm guilty of this, too.) BTW, my eyelids are like FyreSpiryt's... but I thought this was normal! Carolly