eyeliner and asymmetry *
Oct. 25th, 2009 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adrienmundiWith anything that outlines my eyes, asymmetry really stands out. My right eye is much more open, and looks markedly larger, less guarded, kinder; my left looks smaller, more focused, more predatory.
With a lot of kohl, my left looks better, primary, alive and searching, the right eye the naive tag along not quite sure what she's in for but mistakenly believing she's up for the ride however it goes.
With only a little, my right eye looks better: drawing attention to openness, the warmer, kinder gaze, the left inclined to look askance, out of place, cynically guarded against some other weakness.
I don't usually look in mirrors much. That's probably one of the reasons I don't wear much make up; I don't want to face my reflection for that long. The asymmetry of my eyes has always struck me as immediately noticeable, impossible to miss. It makes me self conscious, makes me feel like a less balanced composite than most, a poorly stitched together science project of "what if". But my eyes, mismatched as they are (but not as much or as strikingly as some), are probably my best feature, so I draw attention to them, to the sometimes unsettling weight of their collective gaze. Interestingly, I break eye contact less, slip away less often, when kohled. That probably means something.
*well, technically kohl, but that's less assonant
With a lot of kohl, my left looks better, primary, alive and searching, the right eye the naive tag along not quite sure what she's in for but mistakenly believing she's up for the ride however it goes.
With only a little, my right eye looks better: drawing attention to openness, the warmer, kinder gaze, the left inclined to look askance, out of place, cynically guarded against some other weakness.
I don't usually look in mirrors much. That's probably one of the reasons I don't wear much make up; I don't want to face my reflection for that long. The asymmetry of my eyes has always struck me as immediately noticeable, impossible to miss. It makes me self conscious, makes me feel like a less balanced composite than most, a poorly stitched together science project of "what if". But my eyes, mismatched as they are (but not as much or as strikingly as some), are probably my best feature, so I draw attention to them, to the sometimes unsettling weight of their collective gaze. Interestingly, I break eye contact less, slip away less often, when kohled. That probably means something.
*well, technically kohl, but that's less assonant
