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Oct. 2nd, 2006 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elsajeniOkay. I have two key questions for all of you, because I am planning my Halloween costume, and I am going to go as A Gothic Novel, and I need help.
1. What, in your opinion, is the perfect example of the gothic novel -- the one title, out of all possible options, that I should write on the big posterboard book cover I'm going to be wearing? I've been debating madly in my head about this, and I just can't make up my mind. I need your input. I know I have some serious English-lit dorks on my friendslist. Help me out, people. (Note: Must be a novel. I thought about "Fall of the House of Usher", but then I would have to tell people that I was A Gothic Short Story, which doesn't sound as dramatic.)
2. ... Can anyone give me makeup tips? Seriously? I do not wear makeup. Even a little. About the extent of my Makeup Routine is, occasionally I put on Dr Pepper-flavored LipSmackers, because it tastes good and has no visible color on my lips. Other than that, my sole makeup experience is stage makeup for the musicals I somehow got involved in this past year, and I'm not really going for the "Clown Hooker" look or the "For Some Reason I Am Playing An Eight-Year-Old Girl" look. I think I'm mostly pretty competent; my real problem area is going to be eye makeup, most notably mascara, which I have never successfully worn, because my eyelashes and eyebrows are blonde and it frightens me to darken them. Please, people. Save me from myself.
1. What, in your opinion, is the perfect example of the gothic novel -- the one title, out of all possible options, that I should write on the big posterboard book cover I'm going to be wearing? I've been debating madly in my head about this, and I just can't make up my mind. I need your input. I know I have some serious English-lit dorks on my friendslist. Help me out, people. (Note: Must be a novel. I thought about "Fall of the House of Usher", but then I would have to tell people that I was A Gothic Short Story, which doesn't sound as dramatic.)
2. ... Can anyone give me makeup tips? Seriously? I do not wear makeup. Even a little. About the extent of my Makeup Routine is, occasionally I put on Dr Pepper-flavored LipSmackers, because it tastes good and has no visible color on my lips. Other than that, my sole makeup experience is stage makeup for the musicals I somehow got involved in this past year, and I'm not really going for the "Clown Hooker" look or the "For Some Reason I Am Playing An Eight-Year-Old Girl" look. I think I'm mostly pretty competent; my real problem area is going to be eye makeup, most notably mascara, which I have never successfully worn, because my eyelashes and eyebrows are blonde and it frightens me to darken them. Please, people. Save me from myself.