23 Stages Of Putting On Makeup When You Don’t Normally Wear It

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1. Stage 1: Waking up a little earlier than usual for whatever reason.

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2. Stage 2: Deciding to use your extra time to put on makeup instead of making a slightly more complicated breakfast or stretching.

3. Stage 3: Envisioning how amazingly flawless you’ll look with a full face of perfectly blended, color-corrected, and contoured makeup.

4. Stage 4: Going through your makeup stash and trying to remember what all this junk is supposed to do.

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5. Stage 5: Realizing that half of your makeup is expired because the last time you wore it, dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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6. Stage 6: Realizing halfway through putting on your foundation that you forgot primer.

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7. Stage 7: Not remembering if the concealer goes before or after the foundation and resigning yourself to doing it the wrong way. Again.

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8. Stage 8: Attempting something like a “daytime smoky eye” and ending up painting each of your eyelids a different shade of gray.

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9. Stage 9: You’re also now covered in glitter somehow. Head to toe. You don’t know where it came from. And it’s not coming off.

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10. Stage 10: Doing your eyeliner on the easy eye…

11. Stage 11: Then totally messing up when you get to the difficult eye…

12. Stage 12: So you go back to the easy eye to try and match the other one…

13. Stage 13: And you end up messing up the first eye even worse than the second one and WHO DOES THIS EVERY DAY? WHO HAS THE TIME?

14. Stage 14: Trying to remember all of the lipstick tips you’ve heard throughout your whole life and drawing a total blank.

15. Stage 15: Instantly regretting your decision to try and get creative with the lip liner.

16. Stage 16: Then trying to hide your mistake with lipstick and just… no.

17. Stage 17: Also you now have lipstick on your chin/ear/eyebrow and you have no idea how it got there.

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18. Stage 18: Smudging the lipstick onto your cheeks because you don’t have any blush and you read this in a magazine once.

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19. Stage 19: Realizing that you used up all of your extra time and are now, in fact, going to be late.

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20. Stage 20: Feeling really weird about having all this stuff on your face because you can feel it on there and you’re sure everyone is judging you.

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21. Stage 21: Getting stuck in an insecurity spiral because what if it looks too “not you” and why did you even bother trying to do makeup in the first place ugh…

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22. Stage 22: Catching a glimpse of yourself in a window or other shiny surface and realizing how good you actually look!

23. Stage 23: Acknowledging that even if makeup isn’t an everyday thing for you, it’s still fun to play with whenever YOU feel like it.

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Salazar Foundation and HUNI support North classrooms

NORTH DENVER — 2016 provided the Highlands United Neighbors, Inc.  (HUNI) organization, and The Salazar Family Foundation an opportunity to partner in support of augmenting North High School’s January 2017 classroom educational requirements. 

The Salazar Family Foundation, founded in 1999 by Rob and Lola Salazar, has an established mission to encourage Denver-area students to achieve their educational goals. In partnership with HUNI, Denver North Facility/Administration, and North High School Alumni Association, the Salazar Family Foundation has provided additional educational opportunities through a significant financial commitment via a classroom grant.

The 2016 North High School Salazar Foundation Grant is focused in the areas of the Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Special Education, Music/Art, Physical Education and World Languages Departments. 

Rob and Lola Salazar

Rob Salazar, a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the patriarch of the Salazar Family Foundation. Rob’s passion and commitment to supporting North High School can be traced to his North Denver historical roots. Rob is an Alumni of Bryant-Webster, Horace Mann Junior High, and North High School. Concurrently, Lola Salazar the focal point, lead and voice of the Family Foundation worked side by side with all the stakeholders to identify those grant areas where monies could be applied for an immediate educational impact. 

The Mission of HUNI, (a Lower Highlands Denver Registered Neighborhood Organization) is to facilitate consistent and responsible communication among Highland neighbors and the community at-large, to improve the quality of life for its residents, organizations, schools and businesses and to provide advocacy and promotion for our community.

Teaming with the Salazar Family Foundation, North High School, and the North High School Alumni Association, HUNI is proud to have helped deliver on a portion of their 2016 mission thanks to the financial generosity of the Salazar Family Foundation. 

Salazar Family Foundation
www.salazarfamilyfoundation.org

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www.denverhighland.org

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This Is What I Learned When I Tried Wearing Makeup For A Week

                                            <b>I rarely wear makeup, mostly because I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m very good at applying it.</b> So <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinlarosa/things-you-learn-when-you-dont-wear-makeup-for-a-week#327l312">while my co-worker Erin went makeup-free for a week</a>, I donned a face full of makeup.                                                          
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I have nothing against makeup, and I’m definitely not trying to make a statement by not wearing it. The reason I usually go makeup-free is mostly because I feel like I’m not good at doing it, and also because I love sleeping and would rather sleep for an extra 30 minutes in the morning than spend that time applying makeup.

For this week of wearing makeup, I wanted to go all out in the makeup department. The only problem was, I wasn’t really sure where to begin. So I decided to head to Sephora to get some ~stuff~.

I wandered the aisles looking totally lost, until, finally, my half-terrified, half-excited look prompted one of the makeup artists to approach me. After I explained to her what I was doing, she was super excited to help me, and ended up giving me a mini-makeover. Though I dropped way too much money, I also left with a look to try and emulate each morning.

4. Here’s what I learned wearing makeup for a week:

5. Day 1: When I learned that people would notice something was different, but wouldn’t be able to figure out what it was.

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For the first day, I decided to go big or go home, so I came to work sporting hot pink lipstick, several brown and gold eyeshadows, foundation, bronzer, black eyeliner, mascara, and highlighter… I even filled in my eyebrows! After putting on so many different layers of products, I sort of felt like I was wearing a mask, but figured at this point I had to try and own it.

When I finally worked up the courage to walk into the kitchen after hiding at my desk for the first hour, a few people came over and said something — that’s when I realized how different the reaction would be from guys and girls. Every girl seemed to notice I was wearing makeup, while every guy knew something was different, but couldn’t put his finger on what it was.

My male boss asked if I did something to my hair. Another male co-worker said I looked different, “in a good way,” but it was clear he had no clue what exactly had changed.

But female co-workers immediately commented on my lipstick, eyeliner, or just that I was wearing more makeup in general.

7. I felt the need to mention the experiment as an excuse for why I was wearing makeup.

I quickly realized that when people began to comment on my change in appearance, I would immediately tell them I was doing an experiment for work where I was wearing makeup.

Why couldn’t I just say “thank you” and own the fact that I wanted to put a little extra effort into my look that day? I’m allowed to spend time making myself look pretty, even if it is just to go to work. But for reasons I’m still not entirely sure of, I found myself still feeling a need to justify myself instead of just embracing it.

9. Day 2 (aka the day my phone would only take blurry selfies): When I learned how insanely hard it was going to be to not touch my face all day.

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Ladies who wear makeup every day, I don’t know how you do it! Apparently I touch my face all the time, and wearing makeup really made me realize that. All I wanted to do after looking at a computer screen for a few hours was rub my eyes, and remembering I couldn’t because I would smear makeup all over my face was a form of torture.

11. Also, this is the night I learned that coconut oil is a truly amazing makeup remover!

12. Day 3: The day I realized I love sleeping in.

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One of the main reasons I usually don’t wear makeup is because I have a love affair with sleeping. I feel totally fine about getting 10 hours of sleep on an average night, and sometimes on the weekends, I marathon sleep.

So having to wake up 30 minutes early was never fun for me.

This became painfully clear on Day 3, when I woke up and wanted nothing more than to crawl back into bed. It took everything in me not to say “fuck it” and go back to bed. But I pushed through because I was doing this experiment and I had to. My sleepiness made it quite clear to me that a little extra beauty sleep is the main reason I end up makeup-free most days.

14. Day 3 was also the day I finally found the courage to actually post one of the millions of selfies I had taken…

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15. Day 4: When I learned that people get used to you looking a certain way, and they’ll notice any variance from that — whether it’s makeup or something else.

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On Day 4, I decided that it was time to spice up my makeup-wearing experiment by also wearing my hair pulled back — something else I never do!

I did this because I figured it was the bravest I could get, forcing my full, made-up face to show without any hair to hide behind.

But ironically, my master plan failed, because on Day 4, no one noticed that I was wearing makeup; everyone just noticed that I had a new hairstyle.

17. Also, a lot of people had no idea I didn’t wear makeup in the first place.

One of my male co-workers who knew I was doing this experiment told me that before this week he didn’t realize I didn’t wear makeup, and if someone had asked him, he would have said I do. He said that now looking at me, he definitely sees a difference, but that neither one is better or worse, just different.

Later that day, while chatting with a female co-worker about what I was doing, she made a comment like, “Well, you usually wear some makeup, like mascara and stuff.” “No,” I corrected her, “I usually wear literally NOTHING. Not one ounce of anything.” My co-worker, who has seen my face five days a week for over a year, was in disbelief at the fact that I don’t wear makeup.

As Erin talked about in her post, I think this is because society has conditioned us to assume the people we see are all wearing makeup — it’s almost expected at this point. I think this is especially true for women who seem to put some extra effort into their appearance, like I do. While I might not wear makeup on a daily basis, I always do my hair and spend the extra time to make sure I feel confident and beautiful in the outfits I wear. People assume that ~those~ types of girls must always wear makeup.

19. Day 5: The day I realized wearing makeup makes me feel more confident, i.e., the day my boyfriend called me bossy.

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“Whenever you put on makeup, you get sassy and bossy.”

That’s what my boyfriend told me as we were walking home from dinner on Day 5. I’m sassy by nature, but I think the bossiness and sassiness he was picking up on was actually my heightened confidence.

But this moment wasn’t the first hint that I was more confident in my appearance when I wore makeup. I work for BuzzFeedVideo, so from time to time, I appear in videos, and on that Monday, I was in a Jewish Taste Test video. In the past, my makeup-free face has appeared in a couple of thumbnail images, and I’ve been slightly mortified, but when my made-up face was used for the thumbnail, I was kind of excited about it. A co-worker even emailed me to tell me I looked “amazing,” and instead of getting awkward or trying to come up with some sort of excuse, I simply said, “Thank you!”

I’m still not totally sure how to feel about this. As someone who identities as a non-makeup-wearer, it feels somewhat defeating to admit that makeup might actually make me more confident. Does this mean if I start wearing makeup every day I will become a more confident person, or will the newfound confidence wear off after a few weeks or months? I really don’t know. I think it might not be the makeup, but just giving yourself a little extra time to make yourself feel good in any way — whether that’s putting on makeup, spending extra time doing your hair, getting your brows done, or even getting a massage or a manicure.

21. Day 6: When I realized that women’s reasons for wearing makeup and not wearing makeup are REALLY similar.

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… And that the experiment I was doing was more similar to Erin’s than I had ever thought.

I was on the phone with my best friend Victoria talking about women who feel the need to wear makeup vs. women who don’t feel a need to wear makeup, when I had an epiphany.

I think women who don’t wear makeup have an easier time claiming that they are so confident and comfortable in their own skin that they don’t need to wear makeup, while women who always wear makeup can be regarded as insecure or vain.

But in reality, I think that not wearing makeup can be as much of a mask as wearing makeup.

I think a lot of women who don’t wear makeup do so because they don’t feel they are beautiful enough, or worth the time and money that makeup entails. In the same way that women who usually wear makeup feel insecure without it on, women who usually don’t wear makeup, like me, can feel insecure with it on.

Now, I’m a pretty confident gal, but I think my original need to justify wearing makeup for this week proves that I felt in some way insecure about being dolled up, in the same way Erin felt about not being dolled up.

Us makeup-free ladies have more in common with makeup-lovers than I ever would have guessed.

23. Day 7: When I learned that if you feel pretty, you are pretty — makeup or not.

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While I’ll probably never be the type of girl who wears makeup on a daily basis, I did come out of this week feeling like makeup isn’t as horrible or irritating to wear as I initially assumed it to be — makeup can be a fun way to express yourself and accentuate your attributes.

But I still feel like my makeup-free face is pretty darn cute. I don’t think I necessarily need to spend a bunch of time and money trying to make something I already like look different, especially when I’m just going to work or to see people who I already feel comfortable and confident around.

Just like anything else, getting dolled up takes some getting used to, and while I don’t see myself showing up to work wearing bright pink lipstick again anytime soon, I do think this experience has opened my eyes to the world of makeup, and I think I’m now more open to wearing some subtle makeup from time to time. Also, if I ever do have the urge to give that hot pink lipstick another go, I’ll know that the world definitely won’t end, and I might even look kind of cute!

25. Here’s my before-and-after.

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Foundation aids I-70 future

Foundation aids I-70 future
NORTH DENVER – A group of business executives and community leaders has created a new foundation to bring their expertise to neighborhoods on the verge of big changes. Denver neighborhoods surrounding I-70—River North (RiNo), Elyria-Swansea …
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Brick Foundation Repair in Denver

Brick houses have long been valued for their solid, stately appearance. Many homeowners prefer a home with a brick exterior over one sided with wood or vinyl because of brick’s inherent durability. A brick wall can stand up to snow, sleet, rain, gale-force winds and errant baseballs without even breathing hard. Immune to fire and insect damage, brick demands little in the way of maintenance (occasional repointing), outlasting other siding treatments that require periodic painting, sealing and spot repairs.

Brick is Beautiful, but Also Brittle

A brick house built before 1900 or so will probably have double or solid brick walls. Interior brick is likely to be covered with plaster, while the exterior brick will be exposed. Newer brick houses are typically built with a brick veneer -a single layer of brick that is laid up outside a wood-framed wall.

Regardless of which method of construction was used, a brick house has one principle weakness that is often apparent in the greater Denver area and in many parts of the western U.S: It’s inflexible. So if soil movement causes its foundation to shift, a brick house is almost certain to crack due to the brittle nature of the material.

Structural cracks in brick don’t look the same as cracks caused by normal mortar shrinkage or weathering. Structural cracks are larger than nonstructural cracks; they’re also uneven -often larger at the top than at the bottom.

Soil Movement is Surprisingly Common

According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, about 25% of all homes in the U.S. have some sort of damage caused by unstable soils. In fact, soil movement causes more property damage than earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined.

The reason that soil movement damage goes unnoticed is that it often occurs gradually. Cracks start out small and are easy to overlook until they grow larger over time. In many parts of the western U.S., soils have a high content of clay and silt. When this type of soil gets wet, water doesn’t drain through the soil. Instead, it’s absorbed by clay and silt particles. Adding the water volume to the soil causes the soil to expand in a very powerful way.

Soil Settlement is a Common Cause of Cracks in Brick Walls

Many masonry foundations can withstand expanding clay soil without sustaining damage. But when the soil dries out and shrinks, a more stressful situation can occur. The soil beneath a footing and/or foundation wall can shrink away from the masonry, creating an empty area, or void, where solid, load-bearing soil is absent. Unable to bridge the gap over this void because of the weight of the house, the footing cracks and settles down. A wood-framed wall located over this settled foundation section can often bend slightly to accommodate the change. But a brick wall doesn’t have the same flexible characteristics. So it cracks.

Foundation Repair Specialists Can Fix Structural Cracks in Masonry Walls

Structural cracks in a masonry wall should never be ignored. It’s certain that the same conditions that caused the crack will continue to affect the foundation. This will cause the crack to enlarge; or it may cause displacement, with one part of the wall sliding or tilting inwards or outwards. While the home’s inhabitants won’t be affected initially, a house with this type of damage is almost impossible to sell or provide collateral for a second mortgage.

Fortunately, foundation repair specialists have engineered solutions to this type of foundation problem, and many other foundation problems as well. When the soil immediately below a foundation can’t support the structure, these contractors can drive steel piers down to stable soil at greater depth. A steel bracket connects each pier to the foundation, enabling the contractor to raise the settled wall or footing back to its original level. In most cases, this causes cracks to close up and restores the building’s structural integrity. By correcting the problem rather than simply treating the symptom, foundation repair contractors help ensure that settlement and cracking won’t recur in the future.

Complete Basement Systems of CO a trusted foundation repair contractor in Denver, and also specialize in crawl space and basement waterproofing and repair. They proudly serve in and around Denver.

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Foundation repair Denver

One’s own home as well as one’s headquarters or other structure might end up in need of repairs to its foundation. The foundation of a structure needs to withstand large loads of stress and high pressure and it can run a lot of risks due to seismic activity, due to the normal development of cracks and of clits that sometimes happen due to the surface the construction rests upon. A structure has to accommodate a lot of different problems but sometimes it needs to be fixed. Thus, the foundation repair Denver Company can aid you if you’re a citizen of the area.

A company that offers such repairs has got to work in construction and in heavy duty construction repairs. Sometimes a construction needs to be excavated around, sometimes sediment has to be removed or an injection of concrete must be put in place. The substrate of the area where the structure rests upon will always have to be considered, as it might sink or rise, which in time can lead to a number of problems.

The architect Colorado is also someone who can aid in making sure that the repairs of a foundation are handled correctly. He or she will know how the construction has been erected, how it has been produced, what its weak spots and its problems might be. So, without a doubt, the end result can differ greatly from construction to construction, and the stress and the amount of work poured into it can differ greatly.

Sometimes a foundation fix Denver can be quite simple, as the fix might only require a very short amount of work. However, what is required is that the company checks the area thoroughly; it makes in depth analyses and decides on a proper course of action as fast as possible. Otherwise, the  end result might not be as good as one might expect and problems might resurge after a while.

Therefore, working with a professional company is the best way to achieve long time success, and to make sure that in the future no issues will be uncovered. Consider running a foundation check every time you purchase a new property so that you can evaluate the cost of repairs or the extent of the damage that has been caused. This too can be very important to someone that might not require immediate repairs but simply wants to find out if his/her home foundation is ok.

The foundation fix Denver can be handled by a number of different companies. Choose the one that is able to offer you the best report, run the operation in a timely manner and insure that the work will be handled by professionals. Great quality control is essential, since a faulty foundation can lead to cracks in the walls, instability and issues in cases of natural disasters, floods, or earthquakes. All of these can cause issues in time but if you make sure you get a good repair you have fewer issues to trouble you.

 

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