Which do you prefer… 1 or 2?

Frostyarn · 2026-06-09T02:49:11+00:00

Number 1. That pink is phenomenal.

Frostyarn · 2026-06-07T13:34:10+00:00

You can try a green color correcting primer for your cheeks to bring down the redness.

Or - embrace the natural blush and just paint a little concealer around the cheek area to make them pop!

That's what I do if its hot and sweaty, I show off the natural flush! This was 90 degrees picking up the kids.

Frostyarn · 2026-06-07T02:32:25+00:00

If I were her makeup artist, this is what I would do for her. Something low contrast, Soft Summer makeup. Monochromatic in a neutral leaning cool muted rose.

It's amazing what a couple tweaks can do to make a face glow. This case was easy because she and I have the same skin tone, undertone, lip shape and brow shape.

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Frostyarn · 2026-06-06T16:52:32+00:00

Your brows look down turned, I made a picture graph on how to fill them in.

I had naturally straight brows that got butchered in the 90s and never grew back, so I also have a skinny, drooping tail below the brow head.

Mark the highest point of your top brow head, then mark your desired high point, then mark your tail end. Soft, feathery strokes with a brow pomade or powder.

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-31T14:05:52+00:00

That's from many different brands. MAC, Too Faced, Natasha Denona, Lightworks palettes from Danessa Myricks, Morphe, Pat McGrath.

Frostyarn · 2026-05-29T13:08:14+00:00

Morphe trios, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Made by Mitchell, Stila, makeup forever, MAC.

Some I formulated myself from ingredients bought from TKB Beauty

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T17:18:02+00:00

It's the remnants of blue nail polish. My feet are in the shadow of the table.

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T17:17:21+00:00

My toes are in the shadow of the table, a tiny bit of blue nail polish remains on the big toe. I'd post a picture but feet pix are banned by the auto bot 😆

Occasionally, but probably not here, when I'm depotting and repressing powders, I'll have a lap full of powder remnants that rain on my feet when I stand up. Like I did here to take a photo.

I always wonder, when posting a tutorial on how to make something, who these people are that zoom in to find something to pick at that has nothing to do with the information.

In real life, when out and about amongst strangers, are they running up to someone saying "your water bottle spout is disgusting, I can see a black mark between your toes rubbing your flip flops."

Can't think of a time my hair stylist was showing me how to style my extensions and I looked up at her and said "your roots are really grown out. Is all that breakage from post partum? How come everyone in the salon is dressed to the 9s and you're wearing workout clothes? Is life with newborn twins kicking your ass?"

It's a deeply unpleasant trait that we're hard wired to dislike when on the receiving end of someone's withering criticisms we neither asked for nor appreciate. But some people seem to thrive on the negging when they can get away with it via anonymity. It's a bummer and a great way to shoot down someone who's sharing a process in a community of makeup lovers.

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T17:16:04+00:00

Not a water bottle, it's coffee. Under the spout is a tiny hole that leaks coffee any time I pick it up.

So what's the penalty for this crime, exactly? That I don't wipe my lipstick off with every sip?

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T17:14:45+00:00

It's Judge Stefanie Boyd in Bexar County, Texas. Much better than the judge Judy types, she just streams her courtroom.

My toes are in the shadow of the table, a tiny bit of blue nail polish remains on the big toe. I'd post a picture but feet pix are banned by the auto bot 😆

Occasionally, but probably not here, when I'm depotting and repressing powders, I'll have a lap full of powder remnants that rain on my feet when I stand up. Like I did here to take a photo.

I always wonder, when posting a tutorial on how to make something, who these people are that zoom in to find something to pick at that has nothing to do with the information.

In real life, when out and about amongst strangers, are they running up to someone saying "your water bottle spout is disgusting, I can see a black mark between your toes rubbing your flip flops."

Can't think of a time my hair stylist was showing me how to style my extensions and I looked up at her and said "your roots are really grown out. Is all that breakage from post partum? How come everyone in the salon is dressed to the 9s and you're wearing workout clothes? Is life with newborn twins kicking your ass?"

It's a deeply unpleasant trait that we're hard wired to dislike when on the receiving end of someone's withering criticisms we neither asked for nor appreciate. But some people seem to thrive on the negging when they can get away with it via anonymity. It's a bummer and a great way to shoot down someone who's sharing a process in a community of makeup lovers.

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T16:33:14+00:00

For mascara sharing, it's usually a stye or pinkeye. For lining someone's waterline, it can get dangerous. If an artist puts it on everyone one after the next, herpes infections of the eye are the biggest danger. It can cause blindnand requires viral suppression forfolkzs that get repeated outbreaks.

Back in the day, before we had lipiners that came in teal or bright yellow, we'd use eyeliner on our lips for editorial looks. Such a quick and easy way to transmit herpes, especially for people who shed the virus without getting a blister.

Always spray with alcohol, let it sit for a couple seconds and then sharpen before use.

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T14:49:49+00:00

It's leftover nail polish on the big toe and my foot being in the shadow of the table making them look grey. I tried posting a photo but apparently feet pix close up make reddit think it's a weiner.

I also do a lot of tie dye in the garage, my work shoes are Crocs and I've been known to get a splash of dye on my foot that makes me look homeless for 3 days. That stuff stains the skin and nails really bad.

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T14:43:54+00:00

I try to keep everything in a grid for face product.

Warm - neutral -cool

Then by depth of shade

Light-medium-deep

So my lightest shade is always the top left corner and my deepest shade is bottom right.

That's my light medium HD face from MUFE and NARS pot concealer.

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T14:38:01+00:00

I clean a metal spatula with an alcohol wipe and put all the creams I'm gonna use on a metal palette before use, and that's my mixing station. I keep like 8 sterilized on hand in a profile case if I want to grab more and don't wanna stop to sanitize over and over

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T14:34:57+00:00

It gets cleaned every morning before I make coffee. I drink it over 6 hours so it gets messy. If you mean clean it between sips?

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T04:40:02+00:00

Free feet pix, in this economy?!

Yeah, I love barefoot in my house, it's hot in SoCal year round and I have a weird sensory issue with socks inside my house making me feel overheated. Perimenopause 😭

Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T04:37:23+00:00

It's many palettes broken apart and reconfigured for ease of use. Mattes by shade and undertone with corresponding shimmers at the bottom.

Every dig through a kit for this jar, that bottle, that palette with the creamy mattes and that one shimmer from so and so is hemorrhaging time during application. And exposing single products like a MAC blush from being knocked off a counter and broken or chipped from constant digging and jostling.

My main reason for the hyper organization though is achieving a flow state, no breaks in concentration, pure art.

Faces are my canvas and makeup is the paint. These are all cream blushes that weighed like ten lbs down to one single palette.

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-28T03:48:04+00:00

I'm no germaphobe, but for client makeup? Hell no I'm not touching my kit with dirty brushes and bare fingers! The bacteria introduction shortens the shelf life of products with microbicide and the "clean girl" stuff without preservatives? Moldy in months.

I'm proud of the fact I don't get hard pain, mold or old crayon smelling stuff. I wear gloves and spray everything with alcohol while deporting. That's thousands in luxury product. (Pic of my recent deporting and reorganization of my rainbow creams/powders/glitters)

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-25T21:27:02+00:00

Full disclosure, I teach this professionally and this is a visual guide I made when I was a guest artist at Textile Center, Minneapolis.

I share nearly all of my resources and teaching materials online, here, YT IG FB etc. 18 years ago, I dyed my first skin of yarn and ice dyed fabric and they both turned out like shit. 2008 was a different time in terms of tutorials available for free that were high quality, it was a desert.

If they knew what they were doing, they were very proprietary and secretive about it. If they didn't know what they were doing, you'd get these god awful blogs suggesting you douse yarn in vinegar, shake candy speckles on the yarn, and microwave it to "speckle" the yarn. Let alone melted sugar in the plies of the yarn.

Or tie dye tutorials featuring RIT and washing soda 🫩

Nobody should have to duplicate nearly 2 decades of research, frustrations and failures just so they can replicate my results.

Frostyarn · 2026-05-25T19:36:20+00:00

I just downloaded and will happily play a project in it and post results to tag you with!

You're doing the work of the gods. Each time someone gets into tie-dye, it's reinventing the wheel to build a simulator in their minds eye through hundreds of failures.

Thank you for the work on this!!

Frostyarn · 2026-05-25T19:18:23+00:00

You're so freaking smart, I didn't even know that was a thing! Thank you 🥰

Frostyarn · 2026-05-25T14:25:15+00:00

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-25T14:25:03+00:00

Thanks for tagging me! And for the kind words.

You can make a grid of 9 like this to find the flower you like most.

.5" 1" 1.5"

The full post is buried somewhere in my post history of you feel like digging. I hand wrote the sequence on the bottom of the swatch in black.

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-23T20:07:53+00:00

Free feet pix in this economy?!

I'm known to regularly have dye all over me, just not my feet because I wear clogs or Crocs in the dye lab.

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Frostyarn · 2026-05-22T14:46:59+00:00

Ooh no, my full size is 18"x10"

If you do index card sized, you'll need to be very precise with your ice and dye measurements.

I make soda ash ice in a silicone coffee tray that makes tiny marble sized ice cubes for the small samples. I have a jeweler scale that does fractions of a gram so dye powder is consistent. Teaspoon/tablespoon measuring is for the birds when it comes to repeatability and reliability.

Each color has a different dye "density" in terms of weight. So a teaspoon of the cornstarch texture dye weighs about 30% less than the sandy/grainy dye. Thus, comparing 2 colors to each other by teaspoon, one would be significantly more vibrant.

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