When I lived in London during my junior year of college, there was a bar that my girlfriends and I used to go to called – I think – Peppermint Park. Or something like that.
This place was not even a tiny bit cool: it served neon, flaming drinks that created hangovers practically before they were drunk (and served them with zero sense of irony), had low ceilings and balloons and streamers tossed around, was populated solely by us and a handful of creepy businessmen-types clustered around the bar, and played all-’80s, all-the-time. “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, “Walk Like An Egyptian”, “Should I Stay Or Should I Go”…you get the idea.
It was – and might still be, a decade or so later – my favorite bar on the planet. Because when I’m going out for a night of dancing, I’m not interested in being cool; I’m interested in doing my best Kevin-Bacon-in-Footloose impression while wearing, like, knee socks or something.
This makeup is sort of like that bar.
BAM.
LIKE MADONNA.
(…No? Carry on.)
OK, so chartreuse isn’t an especially good shade for my skin tone – let’s maybe skip that part next time – but those purple-and-blue cat-eyes? I kind of love them.
This is a second look I put together using the Urban Decay Electric Palette. It’s quite a bit less successful than the Electric Pink Eyeshadow look (which I would – and do – actually wear to places where I want to look nice, as opposed to kind of bizarre), but still: fun.
(That’s also eyeshadow on my lips, by the way: I mixed the same pink I used in the hot pink shadow look – Savage – with some gloss and applied it with a brush.)
Obviously if you do this or anything even remotely like it, you’re going to have to add a high ponytail (teased, please) and a white leather vest.
Obbbbbviously.
