Juli Alexander writes award-winning Young Adult
Fiction. You can learn about her and her books at her website. Today, though, the teenage sleuth of her Paxton PI series stops by for a guest post about
makeup.
My name is
Townsey Paxton. I’m seventeen, and I’m not really into makeup. Actually, my
best friend Hearst, who’s kind of Goth, wears a lot more makeup than me.
I have
learned a bit about makeup recently, and Anastasia asked me to share.
My brother
recently had a… situation. He went undercover in a fraternity to find out who
was drugging girls. Unfortunately for Graham, he got roofied himself. He’s
fine. I took him to the hospital, but he had some residuals. While he was
unconscious, the criminals wrote all over his face with permanent marker. I’ll
show you his picture, but please don’t tell my brother. He dropped out of
veterinary school to run the family business and take care of me. He’s my
guardian, and he can ground me forever.
You can
see it was pretty bad. I even censored the words on his cheeks because they
were not appropriate for your blog.
We spent a
lot of time trying to remove the marker from his face and learning how to cover
it with makeup. My brother runs Paxton Private Investigations, and the
face-graffiti look was not going to work for business. Graham found Nikkie’s
tutorials, and I have to admit I’m getting addicted to her makeup tips. She has
a blog and a YouTube channel.
The top
three things I’ve learned from Nikkie are:
~ Makeup
can make you appear more alert and awake.
I love Nikkie’s tip for using a light shadow on the inner
corners of the eye. For some great examples, see Fresh and Flirty Everyday Natural Makeup Tutorial or Back to School Makeup Tutorial. This is great if you are in high school and
want your teachers to think you got enough sleep. It’s also helpful for when
you are worrying about a case. Unfortunately, this does not fool your brother
if he’s also a big fan of Nikkie’s tutorials. I’m not going to tell you how
many times my light eyeshadow has disappeared from my bathroom counter lately.
I don’t think Graham has slept well in a month.
~ Wearing
makeup does not mean you have low self-esteem or that you are boy crazy.
Sometimes wearing makeup can be fun. (If you tell anybody I said that, I will
deny it.)
~ Models
and celebrities get a big part of their beauty from makeup, and we can
too.
Check out Nikkie’s The Power of MAKEUP!
See how glamorous she looks with makeup? And you can see
from the other half of her face that she’s human, just like the rest of us.
One last tip from me to you. Kat Von D, the famous tattoo
artist, makes a foundation that covers tattoos. It can also cover marker in
case you find yourself in my brother’s position. A person’s face can only take so much abuse from paint
thinner and nail polish remover!
Paxton
Private Investigations
Seventeen-year-old Townsey Paxton
longs to run the family detective agency. After her twenty-six-year-old brother
leaves vet school to manage the agency and care for her, his sacrifices start
to take their toll. Townsey finds a way to help, enlisting the aid of her
diverse group of friends. She grows bolder with her success. When she suspects
one of the agency’s clients is being abused, she can’t look the other way. She
risks her safety to do what she knows is right, but things suddenly go terribly
wrong. Can Townsey control her justified panic long enough to use the lessons
from her father? Or will her life-long dream lead to her untimely death?
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