What a Face!

Sophia Chen is a young and exuberant makeup artist and hair stylist. She makes a living by putting on makeups for brides on their wedding days. The first time she walked in Grand Toastmasters Club, she showed us the tricks to improve our self images. she was surrounded immediately by many female toastmasters, young and old alike. Sophia and I became fast friends.

Last week, Sophia offered a free makeup class for female junior members of Grand Toastmasters Club. She asked them what they liked the most about their faces. She encouraged them to highlight their strengths and brought out their confidence. Carrie Chiang likes her big brown eyes, Yvan Chu likes her small cherry lips, Liya Huang likes her long and tall nose. And I like my asymmetrical eyebrows. Just imagine the face proportions of the above combinded four, what a face it might be.

Sophia and I had an afternoon tea yesterday afternoon. She looked different, her eyes were brighter and more attractive. I could tell her eyelashes were different but they looked just like her own. I was curious and she told me she glued the eye lash one by one for a long time. She admitted that putting on the eyelashes is the most time-consuming among the total makeup engineering processes.

If Albert Mehrabian's 7%-38%-55% Rule holds true, total impact = 7% verbal + 38% vocal + 55% facial, then it certainly pays to spend time putting on the eyelashes to convey our ideas to others in a more effective way. The knowhow is simple, purchase a pair of standard eyelashes, cut them into individual pieces (in a right sequence), paste their on your own, draw a line on the eyelids, done! Now let your eyes do the rest talking!