Salon Slogan Sighting

"If your hair is unbecoming you should be coming to us."

Blush : Blood Under Your Skin

Blush is blood under your skin or a burn from the sun. For Scandinavians a snow-burn is acceptable, but the application should be lower on the cheeks. For Eskimos a windburn is better, full front and wide on the cheeks including the nose and forehead. For men, it's better to blush high on the cheeks and over the nose bridge. This I hear is how virile men blush after tramping in the woods rescuing virgins. For Goths, no blush. Blush is too happy, it gives too much clue about health, life, and manners.

Blush is essentially a deep bright color showing through your skin. That color is red; pinks and oranges are simply variations of red. Never brown. Brown is a shade so it must be used to contour not to color. The reverse is also true. Blush should never be used to contour the underside of fat cheeks, fat faces and wide noses. Contour is a shadow, so unless you live in Mars where shadows are probably reddish you never use blush to contour. Remember, blush is color, brown is a shadow to contour.

If you want to find out where you blush best you can do any of the following. First, have vigorous sex in a hot place, immediately after orgasm excuse yourself from your partner and check your face in the mirror. Having sex with mirrors all around your bed is also nice. Second, jog, jog, jog then splash water on your face and look in the mirror. Third, go under the sun for thirty minutes. Better yet do a specific task under the sun so you won't look silly sunbathing away from the beach i.e. wash your car or pretend to sell detergent door-to-door. After disposing detergents, get into a public rest room and see where you burn first. Most probably you will find the strongest blush points on top of your cheeks. Other blush points, but fainter, would be right above your brows, on top of your nose bridge, and behind your ears.

Now if you do all of the above at the same time, you will have sex outdoors in broad daylight while jogging, while selling detergent door-to-door (again to avoid looking silly). I can't imagine anyone doing that without getting embarrassed - selling cheap detergent. And when you're embarrassed you blush. Only humans are known to blush.

My favorites are : Benetint by Benefit, 14 Flamme by Chanel, Red 19D by Shu Uemura