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This is for the DA Seventh B-day contest, specifically the Traditional Art section: [link] . It's 'Sloth'. :boing:

...Do you know how HARD the concept of "sloth" is to get across in makeup? Sloth is laziness, apathy, entropy. Technically, I should have just taken a picture of my makeup kit and gone "I was too lazy to do a project. So there." ...But I don't think that'd fly. So we hop on the back of my good friend, symbolism!

I decided:

:bulletred: Sloth is a bit of a grey and yellow girl- colors that don't suggest anything but wishy washy, one way or the other. Even blacks and whites have a tendency to be polarized, stand on themselves and their opinions. Greys and yellows don't give a flying f.

:bulletblue: Sloth's lips have gone into a bit of disrepair. She uses them to voice an opinion so seldom. You'd almost forget they were there.

:bulletred: Sloth's eyes are glazed over. Things right beneath her sight are dark, boring.

:bulletblue: Anything Sloth might do to improve herself, the world around her, or her visage- they're right there, hidden from her sight. She just doesn't care enough to put them into action- so there they stay. Flat. Slipping down her form until one day they'll be at a puddle around her feet.


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Time: 1/2 of 'Throw Momma From the Train'
Medium: Makeup.

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Not important Notes:

* My hair did NOT want to stay teased.
* I cleaned my neck off with a sponge. XD
* For some reason, while I was cleaning makeup off my right eye, it started to SCREAM in stinging pain. I swear, somewhere at that moment, Satan looked up and thought "I love it. I must add it to my repetoire..."
* Traditional Art Category got the hard sin. No fair.
* The comments written on my neck are all notes from my idea journal for makeup projects. I just went through and copied a whole bunch.

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:iconevillemonnumber845:
I would say that this is best, for the contest.
The fact that she's (you're) looking so far off screen and laying, (It looks like) just makes it all the better.

I would suggest though, if you can, making a bit more of a border.and if you've got Photoshop, maybe try and make the background white. Just a few things that'd make it cleaner, but it works just as well as is.

Hope that helped!
:iconsweetgreychaos:
Thank you, the feedback really does help. ^_^ I appreciate it!

And I don't have Photoshop, actually, but there's a program online I've been using to add some shadow to the edge of my photos- I could manage something for the final image. But as for making the background white- well, beyond my capabilities. ^^

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~I do so enjoy making sense. ...Too bad I don't manage it more often.
:iconrazorderockefeller:
my fav <333

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Mi$$ Razor De Rockefeller: An Ugly Girl Who Like Ugly Things
:iconsweetgreychaos:
Why thankya. XD Vote's split already, and it's only 2:30 in the morning. Oh dear.

By the way, the videos you just uploaded had me dead laughing. You can bite cheeks with the best of 'em. :chew: :heart:

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~I do so enjoy making sense. ...Too bad I don't manage it more often.
:iconmystitat:
This is my favorite of the four.

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"By the way, I'd like to share a cosplay idea with you. Go out and find a license plate. Wrap it around your forehead. Congratulations, you're from the hidden leaf of California."
-Emcee, Masquerade, Fanime 2007
:iconarania:
This is my favorite of the photographs for Sloth. I think that it is the positioning of the head - not even giving the effort to keep her head aloft - and that comes through with just enough of the background to give you a downwards looking angle.
:iconsweetgreychaos:
Thank you much for the 'vote'! ^_^ :coke: Coke, and :donut: donuts for you!

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~I do so enjoy making sense. ...Too bad I don't manage it more often.
:iconsweetgreychaos:
:glomp: Hey you!! I miss you. ^_^

Thanks for the input. So far, I think this one is winning. XD Good thing I'm asking, then- I wouldn't have picked this one as my 1st choice originally.

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~I do so enjoy making sense. ...Too bad I don't manage it more often.
:iconrazorderockefeller:
hahahahaha! thanks hun!

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Mi$$ Razor De Rockefeller: An Ugly Girl Who Like Ugly Things

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