So normally I don't wear any more makeup while mermaiding than I do in my everyday human life (read: absolute zero). I've never liked makeup other than for Halloween and I find it actually makes me more self-conscious...I feel like I look better without it, I hate how it feels on my face, it's expensive, and I just hate messing with it. I have tried wearing a little for photoshoots once or twice, but I just ended up freaking out because even the tiniest bit makes me look weird and just...not ME (ask Iona or Octavia, both have tried to put makeup on me for photoshoots, not very successfully).

However, I had a random flash of inspiration this morning while I was browsing pictures of wrasses (as you do). One of my favorite reef fishes, Cheilinus undulatus (known variously as the Napoleon wrasse, humphead wrasse, and Maori wrasse) has very cool markings around its eyes. I thought it might be cool to just try mimicking it to see how it looked. For some reason, makeup/face paint seems to freak me out a lot less when I'm doing animal markings than when just trying to do people-makeup. Go figure. Anyway, I have allllll this blue makeup leftover from my Aayla Secura cosplay from Comic Con, so I gave it a try just for funsies. What do you guys think?

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I had to wash it off right afterwards, but at least I managed to get some doofy pictures without freaking out :P