lipstick, nail polish, and lip-gloss oh my!
The past week has been beyond hectic for me, between dinner guests, preparations for Kestryl’s one-queer-show’s NYC debut in the next two weeks, changes with my gay for pay job, beginning to seriously plan for the June release of my first book, and my femme show performance proposal 
I haven’t had a whole lot of extra time. This of course means that now more than ever I have to be thinking about time management and prioritization. You might be wondering how this relates to being femme, but I assure you there is a reason behind listing my schedule, the above are a sample of the things, which in one way or another tend to make it onto my ‘to-do’ list. Thus you can only imagine the hilarity, which ensued when on Saturday I announced proudly that there was one more thing I could cross off the list- I had painted my nails.
Without a doubt, I take my makeup application seriously and I have to make time for it in my schedule. To me, flamboyant makeup makes me feel seen as a femme, and makes me feel more comfortable in my body. For me, makeup isn’t about making myself more rationally beautiful or following some prescribed idea of how people read as female are “supposed†to look. For me, makeup is flamboyant; it is over the top and heavy on the glitter. It involves loud colors and is part of how I view queer femininity as highly performative. Makeup is something I need in order to feel true to my identity, without it I feel as though I don’t have some of the requirements of my gender present. Everything from going out to dinner, to running to the grocery store is an event, and to me it is essential that I be appropriately costumed.
Right now, my favorite makeup items are an electric robins egg blue nail polish I got in my stocking, pink lemonade glitter lip-gloss and my trusty MAC lipstick. This is of course always subject to change at any moment, and I am always open for suggestions, so I’ll ask makeup loving femmes, what is your favorite item of the moment?
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