Xiao Jia is sharing makeup tips
Xiao Jia’s house is full of cosmetics
Xiao Jia launches video course to teach makeup skills
Xiao Jia always remembered that grand dinner, the smell of perfume filled the air, and the sound of high heels falling on the floor beside her ears. Xiao Jia can fully imagine that the female guests must be wearing exquisite makeup. Except for herself and her blind colleagues, they may be the only women in the audience who are facing the sky.
dare not love beauty
A visually impaired girl once described in the article: I have been wearing my father’s pants since I was a child. I have never touched cosmetics, never went shopping, wore beautiful skirts, and did not have my own clothes. Because they feel that I don’t have to go out.
Xiao Jia is not like this, she has seen the colorful world in this world. Shortly before her diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 14, she was studying sketching in her studio, with the goal of becoming an anime writer.
Since she was a child, she has liked her father’s set of four famous villains, a short story and a fine brush painting. Lu Bu is wearing heroic armor, and Diaochan next to her is dressed in commoner, which is more graceful. She still remembers the appearance of Shanghe Tu at Qingming Festival, and the prosperous market outlined by those delicate lines.
Xiao Jia taught herself sketching, meticulous painting, Chinese painting, watercolor painting and comics. She likes to paint each nail with red, green and blue base colors with fine art brushes and watercolor brushes, and then embellish it with little flowers. She also secretly used her family’s cosmetics to wipe her face. The bright red lipstick and black eye shadow made her eyes look very long.
It wasn’t until the first year of high school that she found that she couldn’t read the answer sheet. She went to the hospital in Guangzhou during the summer vacation and was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. Doctors say she will be completely blind by the age of 20.
A friend who studied sports transferred to art and said that he would help her continue her dream. But this didn’t give Xiao Jia much comfort. She dropped out of school and started another life. She has nothing to do at home, watching Liu Yifei’s version of “The Condor Heroes” over and over again, which is her favorite TV series, and she likes the appearance of every character. Now taking her daughter to watch “The Legend of Condor Heroes”, Xiao Jia said from the side, “Look at Li Mochou’s eyes, the eyeshadow is blue.”
The depression during that time caused Xiao Jia to start overeating, and her weight soared from 120 to 150 pounds. She was mistaken for an “auntie”, and her father said she was “like a fat monkey”. Xiao Jia was not reconciled, even in the days when she could finally see her appearance, she still hoped that there would be a beautiful girl in the mirror. She bought a weight loss yoga CD and a yoga mat, and she learned to exercise every day, and she practiced for 3 hours.
As Xiao Jia slowly lost weight, the indigo-colored snowflakes in her eyes became bigger and bigger, and the light of the world was gradually closing to her. Xiao Jia found that when she was watching TV, she got closer and closer to the screen, and herself in the mirror became a blurred figure. When she lost 90 pounds, she stood on the scale, and she had to touch the caliper scale to know her weight.
At the age of 21, she started walking and bumping into people, bumping into obstacles in front of her, and fell hard in the middle of the road, breaking her beautiful high-heeled shoes.
Xiao Jia was completely blind, and Amy kept her away. “Not being able to see seems to make me lose my ability to be beautiful. Even if I really want to, I feel that I can’t do it.”
Once, Xiao Jia was invited to a grand dinner. At the banquet, the guests smelled good perfume, and the high-heeled shoes made a pleasant sound when they fell on the floor. Xiao Jianen imagined that their makeup should be very delicate. On that day, she wore a polka-dot dress with a pair of sneakers on her feet. Among the women at the banquet, she and her blind colleagues who came with her might be the only ones with plain faces. At that time around Xiao Jia, no blind person could wear makeup.
Later, Xiao Jia went to participate in the recording of a TV show. She wanted to dress up, so she put on some face cream and combed her hair, thinking that the effect should be good. A scene of the show recorded her in the audience, and Xiao Jia shared the video with the family group.
“Jiajia, why are you so vicissitudes?” The aunt asked in the group, “Did you have a bad time in Beijing?”
“No, I feel good!” Xiao Jia replied bluntly, but she still realized the gap between imagination and reality.
There was a growing question in her heart, why can’t blind people dress up beautifully? Why are so many reports of disabled women so miserable?
Makeup that will “pain”
In 2014, Xiao Jia worked as a stenographer in a non-profit organization in Beijing, which happened to hold a makeup training event for visually impaired people.
At the scene, three makeup artists stood on the stage to demonstrate, and Xiao Jia was one of the models. Take a photo before makeup, take a photo after makeup, compare the two, the makeup artist praised Xiao Jia: “How do you look like Xiao Yaxuan after makeup!”
“Then can I transform myself?” Xiao Jia asked.
The makeup artist put the eyeshadow palette in front of Xiao Jia, “Can you see the color on this?”
“Where’s the eyeshadow palette?”
All the makeup artists backed down and told Xiao Jia clearly that they could not teach her.
At that time, Xiao Jia’s husband, Cai Cong, was making a magazine for the disabled. When collecting information, he happened to find a British girl named Lucy on the Internet. She is blind and teaches makeup online. Because of the language, Xiao Jia could not understand the techniques taught by Lucy, but she decided to teach herself makeup. She was certain that Lucy in the UK could do it, and so could she.
With the help of screen-reading software, she learned a bunch of beauty articles. When she started the operation, pain became her first impression of makeup. After applying mascara, the eyelashes burst into tears every time I blinked. Even if I didn’t apply an even foundation, my colleagues with eyesight always asked me, “Why are there white spots on my face?”
She once bought a roll-on eyeshadow stick called Lazy Welfare, and rolled out a charming blue eyeshadow on her eyelids, imagining herself as Li Mochou in Liu Yifei’s version of “The Condor Heroes”. But just as he was about to go out, his mother-in-law grabbed him. “Xiao Jia, did you hit the door?” The blue on her eyes stretched from the end of her eyes to the top of her eyes, and then climbed from the eyelashes to the brow bone.
She once asked her husband to feel her makeup, and when he reached out to touch it, he found the eyelashes were sticking together. Recalling this scene, Xiao Jia couldn’t help laughing. She later learned that it was called “fly legs”. Because of using too much mascara, the eyelashes are thick and hard like irregular fly legs, and it hurts to poke the eyeball in the blink of an eye.
Relying on touch to make up for vision
After participating in the activity once, a teacher from the Braille library contacted Xiao Jia and recommended her a beauty salon. To her surprise, the salon was completely cold and there were only three people including Xiao Jia. They gathered around a small table, and the other two were teachers from the organizer, or to be precise, sales.
“How is your skin? What kind of makeup do you like?” As soon as she saw Xiao Jia, the other party asked her to fill out a color makeup preference consultation card, and then talked about skin care methods. In the end, Xiao Jia bought a set of 4,500 yuan of skin care products from this company with almost a month’s salary and became a VIP customer.
It turned out that the organizer of the salon is a direct selling company of skin care and makeup products. Xiao Jia began to feel that she was being “fooled”, but as a VIP customer, she could participate in the company’s makeup, skin care, and clothing matching activities. After get off work or on weekends, she still loves to run to beauty companies.
The company has makeup training for internal employees. Xiao Jia took the initiative to ask Ying to be a model for everyone. She wants to use her skin to feel how everyone wears makeup.
Here, Xiao Jia knew for the first time that applying mascara would not hurt. She simulates applying eyelashes with her finger first, and then with a pen. She felt that the mascara had to be applied with the right amount of force, like a fly on it. She kept repeating until she could “catch that little fly” with precision.
Just like this, the lack of vision is made up for by a keen sense of touch. When applying blush, Xiao Jia felt a small broom move on her cheeks; the lip glaze was a bit like honey applied to the lips; the lipstick felt like avocado touching the mouth. When applying eye shadow, there will be a layer of fine powder between the eyelid and the finger pulp, like sliding on not too thick snow. She has to carefully control the “thickness of the snow”, and control the strength of each sticking and smearing. Three strokes are light makeup, and seven strokes are heavy makeup.
During that time, she spent an hour and a half every day, taking the bus to the subway twice after get off work, and going to the company to learn makeup. Later, she became pregnant and was still crowding the bus with a big belly. When the due date was approaching, my mother-in-law was really worried and went with her.
Xiao Jia’s makeup needs to be revised less and less, and she gradually does not need others to check it again. Once, when she went out with a cool-toned makeup look, she went through the overpass to ask someone for directions, but the other person said, “Are you a fake blind person? How can you wear makeup if you can’t see?”
Hearing this, Xiao Jia felt very complicated. This is a recognition of her makeup ability, but it also represents the “cognition of most people – blind people can’t wear makeup.
about dignity and decency
Xiao Jia’s first student came to the door by herself. At that time, she quit her job in a non-profit organization to work in sales at a makeup company where she studied makeup. Because of her outstanding performance, a non-profit organization filmed a video for her teaching visually impaired people to make up and posted it online.
One day, a girl from Inner Mongolia called Xiao Jia, “Can you teach me makeup?” Xiao Jia didn’t ask why, there is no reason to learn makeup.
The next day, according to her habit, Xiao Jia gave each other a set of cosmetics. She unpacked the bottles and jars and marked them with strips of paper or beads. For example, on the eyeshadow palettes of different colors, she put different numbers of beads to distinguish them, and then repackaged them and sent them to the students. Every night, she spends an hour teaching one-on-one through WeChat voice.
How to express accurately is the key, Xiao Jia tried to describe how to replace vision with a keen sense of touch. For example, use your fingers to dab foundation on your face like a sky full of stars. She thinks this is a very detailed description, but students ask, what is a gypsophila? For congenitally blind people, they have no concrete perception of the world. Xiao Jia had to change the expression, “Like playing the piano, point the index finger, middle finger, ring finger back and forth on the face, and in order, point the whole face like sesame seeds layer by layer.”
It took a week to teach the first visually impaired student, and in the following year, Xiao Jia taught many visually impaired girls makeup in the same way. Among them, there are treasure mothers who want to show a beautiful image to their children, brides-to-be who want to do their own makeup, and college students who want to perform on stage.
Xiao Jia said that the pursuit of makeup is a matter of decency and dignity.
In 2018, Lingling, a visually impaired girl, participated in a college preparatory class organized by a non-profit organization, and Xiao Jia’s makeup class was also part of the content. It was her first time to travel far, and she took the high-speed train alone for 8 hours to come to Tianjin from her hometown in Chengdu.
In the first class, Lingling impressed Xiao Jia deeply. She found that Lingling was very silent during get out of class, but was very active after class, chatting non-stop. Lingling made it clear, “I’m here to make soy sauce, it’s impossible for me to put on makeup.” Xiao Jia felt that she was very contradictory.
In Lingling’s view, makeup will not change her appearance, because she has a congenital hemangioma on her face, and most of her skin is red. But after learning basic skin care, she touched her face and found that the small blackheads on her nose were gone. “It turns out that there was a change,” Lingling began to follow the teacher, and found that the hemangioma was almost covered after the primer, leaving only her beautiful lips and eyes.
But learning always comes with frustration. Loose powder will always get stuck around the nose, lipstick will also be applied outside the mouth, one side of the blush is high and the other is low, and the shades are different. The most troublesome thing for Lingling is the eyelashes. The mascara will always fall on the eyelids and cover the eyes. The effect of each make-up is like opening a blind box.
Wipe off, paint on, wipe off… Suddenly, an inspiration came, she tore a piece of toilet paper in half, covered the upper and lower eyelids, and then went to apply mascara. “Success! It turns out that as long as you want to do it, you can always find a way.” At the school’s New Year’s Day party that year, Lingling and her classmates went on stage to participate in the recitation performance. She declined the help of her classmates and did makeup by herself.
Later, Xiao Jia saw Lingling again in a TV show. Lingling permed her hair, put on her own makeup, and changed out of the “children” clothes her mother bought, wearing a light blue dress with a pair of nude high heels on her feet. She is also in love, with earrings from her boyfriend on her ears.
Defects that don’t need to be made up
But there are always some shortcomings that cannot be filled.
Liu Huiying was born blind, but she always thought she was beautiful since she was a child. When she was fourteen or fifteen years old, she would put vanishing cream on her face before going out, and it would be fragrant for a few hours. When the smell on her face is gone, she washes her face again, and then wipes it off. She believes that fragrant is beautiful. She also smelled the scent when her low-vision classmates started to apply powder makeup. “I think people with that taste should be beautiful, and I hope I am like them.”
The first two lipsticks in her life were bought at this time, one light pink and one lotus root. In order to understand color, Liu Huiying spent a lot of time listening to novels and asking people to read fashion magazines for help. In her feeling, blue is cool, a very clean color, and it feels very refreshing to wear in summer. White has a pure feel, and any color can be stored in it.
After the epidemic in 2020, Xiao Jia launched a “21-day makeup course” online for visually impaired people, and Liu Huiying was one of the applicants. But she was not satisfied. After the course was finished, she listened to a lot of make-up courses from discerning people on the Internet. She learned that different face shapes require different eye makeup and blush. Blush is not only the difference in depth, position and color, but also the visual effect will be different if you hit it horizontally and diagonally.
Liu Huiying said that Professor Xiao Jia’s method cannot be different from person to person, it is a set of makeup patterns that remain the same. Remember which position, how to operate, how many times to operate, and repeat it again and again to apply the same makeup, “This is the way I can master it, but it’s not the way to get the most delicate makeup.”
For congenitally blind students like Liu Huiying, Xiao Jia can only tell them which grids of the eyeshadow palette are dark and which are light, but there is no way to tell them what blue is and what is white. And there may be a huge gap between imagination and reality, Liu Huiying’s imagination of color will always belong to her.
Back in reality, in such a small space as the eyelid, she still couldn’t create a more layered eye shadow, including the more delicate operation of applying false eyelashes with tweezers, which was also difficult for her to do. But Liu Huiying doesn’t want to give up, she is still listening to various beauty makeup and skin care videos for people with discerning eyes, hoping to create a makeup look that is more suitable for her.
Xiao Jia also knew that the method she taught was difficult to complete refined movements. In her home, there is a make-up cabinet that occupies the entire wall, and her eyes are full of bottles and cans. There are more than 50 lipsticks. She is still trying to improve the makeup method for visually impaired people.
Xiao Jia also said that technology creates “visible beauty”, but the pursuit of beauty does not stop there. It’s like when you are facing a beautiful lake view, in addition to seeing the blue water surface, you can also feel the warm humidity in the air. The same is true for the pursuit of beauty by visually impaired people. Defects don’t affect anything. The real beauty is to love and accept yourself and become a better version of yourself. “Even if you can’t see this, it will constitute my uniqueness and become my uniqueness. The presence.”
Xiao Jia is sharing makeup tips
Xiao Jia’s house is full of cosmetics
Xiao Jia launches video course to teach makeup skills
Xiao Jia always remembered that grand dinner, the smell of perfume filled the air, and the sound of high heels falling on the floor beside her ears. Xiao Jia can fully imagine that the female guests must be wearing exquisite makeup. Except for herself and her blind colleagues, they may be the only women in the audience who are facing the sky.
dare not love beauty
A visually impaired girl once described in the article: I have been wearing my father’s pants since I was a child. I have never touched cosmetics, never went shopping, wore beautiful skirts, and did not have my own clothes. Because they feel that I don’t have to go out.
Xiao Jia is not like this, she has seen the colorful world in this world. Shortly before her diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 14, she was studying sketching in her studio, with the goal of becoming an anime writer.
Since she was a child, she has liked her father’s set of four famous villains, a short story and a fine brush painting. Lu Bu is wearing heroic armor, and Diaochan next to her is dressed in commoner, which is more graceful. She still remembers the appearance of Shanghe Tu at Qingming Festival, and the prosperous market outlined by those delicate lines.
Xiao Jia taught herself sketching, meticulous painting, Chinese painting, watercolor painting and comics. She likes to paint each nail with red, green and blue base colors with fine art brushes and watercolor brushes, and then embellish it with little flowers. She also secretly used her family’s cosmetics to wipe her face. The bright red lipstick and black eye shadow made her eyes look very long.
It wasn’t until the first year of high school that she found that she couldn’t read the answer sheet. She went to the hospital in Guangzhou during the summer vacation and was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa. Doctors say she will be completely blind by the age of 20.
A friend who studied sports transferred to art and said that he would help her continue her dream. But this didn’t give Xiao Jia much comfort. She dropped out of school and started another life. She has nothing to do at home, watching Liu Yifei’s version of “The Condor Heroes” over and over again, which is her favorite TV series, and she likes the appearance of every character. Now taking her daughter to watch “The Legend of Condor Heroes”, Xiao Jia said from the side, “Look at Li Mochou’s eyes, the eyeshadow is blue.”
The depression during that time caused Xiao Jia to start overeating, and her weight soared from 120 to 150 pounds. She was mistaken for an “auntie”, and her father said she was “like a fat monkey”. Xiao Jia was not reconciled, even in the days when she could finally see her appearance, she still hoped that there would be a beautiful girl in the mirror. She bought a weight loss yoga CD and a yoga mat, and she learned to exercise every day, and she practiced for 3 hours.
As Xiao Jia slowly lost weight, the indigo-colored snowflakes in her eyes became bigger and bigger, and the light of the world was gradually closing to her. Xiao Jia found that when she was watching TV, she got closer and closer to the screen, and herself in the mirror became a blurred figure. When she lost 90 pounds, she stood on the scale, and she had to touch the caliper scale to know her weight.
At the age of 21, she started walking and bumping into people, bumping into obstacles in front of her, and fell hard in the middle of the road, breaking her beautiful high-heeled shoes.
Xiao Jia was completely blind, and Amy kept her away. “Not being able to see seems to make me lose my ability to be beautiful. Even if I really want to, I feel that I can’t do it.”
Once, Xiao Jia was invited to a grand dinner. At the banquet, the guests smelled good perfume, and the high-heeled shoes made a pleasant sound when they fell on the floor. Xiao Jianen imagined that their makeup should be very delicate. On that day, she wore a polka-dot dress with a pair of sneakers on her feet. Among the women at the banquet, she and her blind colleagues who came with her might be the only ones with plain faces. At that time around Xiao Jia, no blind person could wear makeup.
Later, Xiao Jia went to participate in the recording of a TV show. She wanted to dress up, so she put on some face cream and combed her hair, thinking that the effect should be good. A scene of the show recorded her in the audience, and Xiao Jia shared the video with the family group.
“Jiajia, why are you so vicissitudes?” The aunt asked in the group, “Did you have a bad time in Beijing?”
“No, I feel good!” Xiao Jia replied bluntly, but she still realized the gap between imagination and reality.
There was a growing question in her heart, why can’t blind people dress up beautifully? Why are so many reports of disabled women so miserable?
Makeup that will “pain”
In 2014, Xiao Jia worked as a stenographer in a non-profit organization in Beijing, which happened to hold a makeup training event for visually impaired people.
At the scene, three makeup artists stood on the stage to demonstrate, and Xiao Jia was one of the models. Take a photo before makeup, take a photo after makeup, compare the two, the makeup artist praised Xiao Jia: “How do you look like Xiao Yaxuan after makeup!”
“Then can I transform myself?” Xiao Jia asked.
The makeup artist put the eyeshadow palette in front of Xiao Jia, “Can you see the color on this?”
“Where’s the eyeshadow palette?”
All the makeup artists backed down and told Xiao Jia clearly that they could not teach her.
At that time, Xiao Jia’s husband, Cai Cong, was making a magazine for the disabled. When collecting information, he happened to find a British girl named Lucy on the Internet. She is blind and teaches makeup online. Because of the language, Xiao Jia could not understand the techniques taught by Lucy, but she decided to teach herself makeup. She was certain that Lucy in the UK could do it, and so could she.
With the help of screen-reading software, she learned a bunch of beauty articles. When she started the operation, pain became her first impression of makeup. After applying mascara, the eyelashes burst into tears every time I blinked. Even if I didn’t apply an even foundation, my colleagues with eyesight always asked me, “Why are there white spots on my face?”
She once bought a roll-on eyeshadow stick called Lazy Welfare, and rolled out a charming blue eyeshadow on her eyelids, imagining herself as Li Mochou in Liu Yifei’s version of “The Condor Heroes”. But just as he was about to go out, his mother-in-law grabbed him. “Xiao Jia, did you hit the door?” The blue on her eyes stretched from the end of her eyes to the top of her eyes, and then climbed from the eyelashes to the brow bone.
She once asked her husband to feel her makeup, and when he reached out to touch it, he found the eyelashes were sticking together. Recalling this scene, Xiao Jia couldn’t help laughing. She later learned that it was called “fly legs”. Because of using too much mascara, the eyelashes are thick and hard like irregular fly legs, and it hurts to poke the eyeball in the blink of an eye.
Relying on touch to make up for vision
After participating in the activity once, a teacher from the Braille library contacted Xiao Jia and recommended her a beauty salon. To her surprise, the salon was completely cold and there were only three people including Xiao Jia. They gathered around a small table, and the other two were teachers from the organizer, or to be precise, sales.
“How is your skin? What kind of makeup do you like?” As soon as she saw Xiao Jia, the other party asked her to fill out a color makeup preference consultation card, and then talked about skin care methods. In the end, Xiao Jia bought a set of 4,500 yuan of skin care products from this company with almost a month’s salary and became a VIP customer.
It turned out that the organizer of the salon is a direct selling company of skin care and makeup products. Xiao Jia began to feel that she was being “fooled”, but as a VIP customer, she could participate in the company’s makeup, skin care, and clothing matching activities. After get off work or on weekends, she still loves to run to beauty companies.
The company has makeup training for internal employees. Xiao Jia took the initiative to ask Ying to be a model for everyone. She wants to use her skin to feel how everyone wears makeup.
Here, Xiao Jia knew for the first time that applying mascara would not hurt. She simulates applying eyelashes with her finger first, and then with a pen. She felt that the mascara had to be applied with the right amount of force, like a fly on it. She kept repeating until she could “catch that little fly” with precision.
Just like this, the lack of vision is made up for by a keen sense of touch. When applying blush, Xiao Jia felt a small broom move on her cheeks; the lip glaze was a bit like honey applied to the lips; the lipstick felt like avocado touching the mouth. When applying eye shadow, there will be a layer of fine powder between the eyelid and the finger pulp, like sliding on not too thick snow. She has to carefully control the “thickness of the snow”, and control the strength of each sticking and smearing. Three strokes are light makeup, and seven strokes are heavy makeup.
During that time, she spent an hour and a half every day, taking the bus to the subway twice after get off work, and going to the company to learn makeup. Later, she became pregnant and was still crowding the bus with a big belly. When the due date was approaching, my mother-in-law was really worried and went with her.
Xiao Jia’s makeup needs to be revised less and less, and she gradually doesn’t need others’ help to check it. Once, when she went out with a cool-toned makeup look, she went through the overpass to ask someone for directions, but the other person said, “Are you a fake blind person? How can you wear makeup if you can’t see?”
Hearing this, Xiao Jia felt very complicated. This is a recognition of her makeup ability, but it also represents the “cognition of most people – blind people can’t wear makeup.
about dignity and decency
Xiao Jia’s first student came to the door by herself. At that time, she quit her job in a non-profit organization to work in sales at a makeup company where she studied makeup. Because of her outstanding performance, a non-profit organization filmed a video for her teaching visually impaired people to make up and posted it online.
One day, a girl from Inner Mongolia called Xiao Jia, “Can you teach me makeup?” Xiao Jia didn’t ask why, there is no reason to learn makeup.
The next day, according to her habit, Xiao Jia gave each other a set of cosmetics. She unpacked the bottles and jars and marked them with strips of paper or beads. For example, on the eyeshadow palettes of different colors, she put different numbers of beads to distinguish them, and then repackaged them and sent them to the students. Every night, she spends an hour teaching one-on-one through WeChat voice.
How to express accurately is the key, Xiao Jia tried to describe how to replace vision with a keen sense of touch. For example, use your fingers to dab foundation on your face like a sky full of stars. She thinks this is a very detailed description, but students ask, what is a gypsophila? For congenitally blind people, they have no concrete perception of the world. Xiao Jia had to change the expression, “Like playing the piano, point the index finger, middle finger, ring finger back and forth on the face, and in order, point the whole face like sesame seeds layer by layer.”
It took a week to teach the first visually impaired student, and in the following year, Xiao Jia taught many visually impaired girls makeup in the same way. Among them, there are treasure mothers who want to show a beautiful image to their children, brides-to-be who want to do their own makeup, and college students who want to perform on stage.
Xiao Jia said that the pursuit of makeup is a matter of decency and dignity.
In 2018, Lingling, a visually impaired girl, participated in a college preparatory class organized by a non-profit organization, and Xiao Jia’s makeup class was also part of the content. It was her first time to travel far, and she took the high-speed train alone for 8 hours to come to Tianjin from her hometown in Chengdu.
In the first class, Lingling impressed Xiao Jia deeply. She found that Lingling was very silent during get out of class, but was very active after class, chatting non-stop. Lingling made it clear, “I’m here to make soy sauce, it’s impossible for me to put on makeup.” Xiao Jia felt that she was very contradictory.
In Lingling’s view, makeup will not change her appearance, because she has a congenital hemangioma on her face, and most of her skin is red. But after learning basic skin care, she touched her face and found that the small blackheads on her nose were gone. “It turns out that there was a change,” Lingling began to follow the teacher, and found that the hemangioma was almost covered after the primer, leaving only her beautiful lips and eyes.
But learning always comes with frustration. Loose powder will always get stuck around the nose, lipstick will also be applied outside the mouth, one side of the blush is high and the other is low, and the shades are different. The most troublesome thing for Lingling is the eyelashes. The mascara will always fall on the eyelids and cover the eyes. The effect of each make-up is like opening a blind box.
Wipe off, paint on, wipe off… Suddenly, an inspiration came, she tore a piece of toilet paper in half, covered the upper and lower eyelids, and then went to apply mascara. “Success! It turns out that as long as you want to do it, you can always find a way.” At the school’s New Year’s Day party that year, Lingling and her classmates went on stage to participate in the recitation performance. She declined the help of her classmates and did makeup by herself.
Later, Xiao Jia saw Lingling again in a TV show. Lingling permed her hair, put on her own makeup, and changed out of the “children” clothes her mother bought, wearing a light blue dress with a pair of nude high heels on her feet. She is also in love, with earrings from her boyfriend on her ears.
Defects that don’t need to be made up
But there are always some shortcomings that cannot be filled.
Liu Huiying was born blind, but she always thought she was beautiful since she was a child. When she was fourteen or fifteen years old, she would put vanishing cream on her face before she went out, and it was fragrant for a few hours. When the smell is gone on her face, she washes her face again, and wipes it again after washing. She believes that fragrant is beautiful. She also smelled the scent when her low-vision classmates started using powdered powder to make up. “I think people with that taste should be beautiful, and I hope I am like them.”
The first two lipsticks in her life were bought at this time, one light pink and one lotus root. In order to understand color, Liu Huiying spent a lot of time listening to novels and asking people to read fashion magazines for help. In her feeling, blue is cool, a very clean color, and it feels very refreshing to wear in summer. White has a pure feel, and any color can be stored in it.
After the epidemic in 2020, Xiao Jia launched a “21-day makeup course” online for visually impaired people, and Liu Huiying was one of the applicants. But she was not satisfied. After the course was finished, she listened to a lot of make-up courses from discerning people on the Internet. She learned that different face shapes require different eye makeup and blush. Blush is not only the difference in depth, position and color, but also the visual effect will be different if you hit it horizontally and diagonally.
Liu Huiying said that Professor Xiao Jia’s method cannot be different from person to person, it is a set of makeup patterns that remain the same. Remember which position, how to operate, how many times to operate, and repeat it again and again to apply the same makeup, “This is the way I can master it, but it’s not the way to get the most delicate makeup.”
For congenitally blind students like Liu Huiying, Xiao Jia can only tell them which grids of the eyeshadow palette are dark and which are light, but there is no way to tell them what blue is and what is white. And there may be a huge gap between imagination and reality, Liu Huiying’s imagination of color will always belong to her.
Back in reality, in such a small space as the eyelid, she still couldn’t create a more layered eye shadow, including the more delicate operation of applying false eyelashes with tweezers, which was also difficult for her to do. But Liu Huiying doesn’t want to give up. She is still listening to various beauty makeup and skin care videos for people with discerning eyes, hoping to create a makeup look that is more suitable for her.
Xiao Jia also knew that the method she taught was difficult to complete refined movements. In her home, there is a make-up cabinet that occupies the entire wall, and her eyes are full of bottles and cans. There are more than 50 lipsticks. She is still trying to improve the makeup method for visually impaired people.
Xiao Jia also said that technology creates “visible beauty”, but the pursuit of beauty does not stop there. It’s like when you face a beautiful lake view, in addition to seeing the blue water surface, you can also feel the warm humidity in the air. The same is true for the pursuit of beauty by the visually impaired. Defects do not affect anything. The real beauty is to love and accept yourself and become a better version of yourself. “Even if you can’t see this, it will constitute my uniqueness and become my uniqueness. The presence.”