I was just looking at a website i came upon about "Worst celebrity makeup" or something like that.....

http://starcrush.com/makeup-fails-courtney-love/
okay i'm a makeup artist, who YES, has worked in the industry, & on celebs, & while i'm not NECESSARILY disagreeing w/some of the statements made by the person who wrote these (though i pretty much AM disagreeing w/the majority of what she said: mainly because they have NO clue what they are talking about). "The No. 1 rule of makeup is balance. If you go heavy on the lips, go light on the eyes and vice versa", for example. no, that is NOT the #1 rule, nor is it even a "rule" per se. look at dearly departed kevin aucoin for example, or other world renowned & respected makeup artists. you CAN definitely go heavy on eyes AND lips at the same time. besides that, her eye makeup (courtney) is NOT even heavy at all!! there is little to no eye shadow, a smidge of liner and mascara, that hardly merits a HEAVY, smoky eye! so yeah, my basic point is this critic supposedly in the know here, or some self assigned expert; knows JACK SHIT! seriously!
last but not least, WHY should everyone look the same & fit some stupid media/celeb OBSESSED cultures definition & judgment of HOW makeup (or anything else for that matter) SHOULD look! once everyone looks the same & are a bunch of brainless drones following the leader or the fashion "experts", then everyone is pleased. ridiculous. whatever happened to creativity? expressing yourself? being DIFFERENT?? nope, can't have that! puhleeze

tell me this: WHO all remembers bjork's swan dress?? or even j. lo's low cut versace deal?? most of the world right? (granted, clothing, not makeup) (btw, i COMPLETELY remember gwyneth's horrible saggy boob dress & always will, but i thought her hair and makeup were fine, though i didn't really recall them at all. in fact i think seeing her eye makeup again, it looks pretty damn good. again though, it's NOT a "smoky eye" though. jesus, does anyone KNOW what an actual smoky eye IS?? it's not just more, or a lot of eye makeup!
anyway, as i was saying, people remember fashion risks, meat dresses, wild alien makeup and so on, but can anyone (besides a fashion or celeb obsessor) tell you what makeup so and so had on whatever year that was deemed "fabulous" or "perfect". doubtful. i can't, i'll tell you that & i have a great memory and am VERY visual.
it's all ridiculous. this factory of sameness.