What would you like me to do with this draft?
Editor’s Note
Eight years in, the note I keep coming back to is how often Dramatic women resist the makeup their lines are literally built for — the sharp cat liner, the architectural brow, the mouth that commands a room. The 229 reports we’ve collected on this type tell a quieter story than the clothes do: 42% of you gravitate toward heavy gabardine, 34% toward crisp fabrication — structure that announces itself before you’ve said a word. Yet the makeup conversation always circles back to “is this too much?” Here’s the contrarian read: for a Dramatic, “too much” is almost never the problem — diffusion is. Your lines don’t soften drama; they contain it. So what would it look like if you stopped editing the makeup down?
Okay so I’ve been doing my makeup totally wrong for YEARS. I’m in Boston and honestly the gray winters here had me convinced I needed soft, blurry everything to look “cozy.” But dramatic types actually shine with those sharp liner angles?? I tested a bold cat-eye with hard edges last Tuesday and my coworker literally stopped me in the hallway. Going to stop feathering out my brow tails — keeping them crisp from now on. Do you think cool or warm undertones matter more for us dramatics when choosing liner color?