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Recently, the blues in my own world began to sizzle and crack.
Sydney Sweeney: Courtesy of HBO; Getty Images / Design by Bella Geraci
Swift channeled herMidnightsera during a tour stop this summer.
Wanting with no end.
And then theres literature stomping grounds for theelusive sad girl.
Swift channeled herMidnightsera during a tour stop this summer.
Name adoomed damsel, and a swath of grungy blue is sure to be plastered somewhere nearby.
Take embattled influencerCaroline Calloway, for one.
The whole world is gonna know my name!
Sweeney wears her signature shade of blue eye shadow as Cassie onEuphoria.
just before she murders the films villain.
Now meme royalty, Sydney SweeneysEuphoriabathroommeltdownis also complemented by a pair of baby blue shimmering eyelids.
Sweeney wears her signature shade of blue eye shadow as Cassie onEuphoria.
Tears arent blue, anyhow.
Those minerals were then pulverized to create the synthetic pigment Egyptian Blue.
In line with her own research, Hankir says historians doubt whether Cleopatra ever wore lapis lazuli shadow.
Nevertheless, blue eye shadow would become Taylors shade of choice, in part because it enhanced her eyes.
At the center of blue eye shadows rise to infamy: deception.
The shades of blue cluttering your eye shadow palette are, in one regard, capitalism doing its thing.
For this reason, its particularly striking when applied to the skin no matter how advanced your makeup skills.
There’s something about blue that just feels very common, Davy adds.
Not all blues are tranquilizing or serene.
A bolt of lightning.
A bright star shining in the heavens.
These are the memories participants call upon when asked of the resonance of bright blue, Eiseman says.
If its scary, it calls your attention.
It makes you stop and look.
Not sadness or weakness, then, but defiance.
Its so camp and clown-like, but that’s why I like it.
It’s a very performative color for your eyes because it’s so far from being natural.
Before 2018, she adds, no bitch was doing blue eye shadow.
It just looked dated.
There, she can escape herself in favor of something grander.
As Roan has discovered, in powder form, we can extract power from blue.
The center of the rainbow where, as Nelson writes, the blue is beating.
