“Oh okay” Nivel sighed wistfully “I suppose we could try a more..minimalist look.” the pycon cringed slightly as she spoke one of her most hated words.
“Okay lets try this again” She gestured for Alex to bring his face forward again so that she could try her best to tone things down but hopefully still keep things interesting. It would definitely be a challenge since Nivel already felt her previous work was on the simple side. Nivel had to remind herself that make up just wasn’t Alex’s thing, so it made sense that he would prefer a more understated look.
Before getting to work Nivel wiped the make up from her arms onto her thighs, leaving dark orange smears on her lighter terracotta flesh. She then began to rub off the red spirals but without some form of liquid all she did was smear the make up around his face.
“Why won’t this stuff come off” Nivel grumbled as she continued to rub it off with growing intensity. “Oh sorry” She quickly apologized once she realized she was practically beating his poor face. She stepped back and was disappointed to see that the squire looked like his eyes had been charred instead of emanating enchanted flames like she wanted. Doing someones make up was a lot less fun than the pycon thought it would be but she had to persevere at least until they got to dance together.
Nivel focused on blending the red in with the dark orange, and it paid off a little by giving a decent gradient that Nivel liked. It surprised her that she was able to make something even remotely beautiful out of something so basic. There was still the issue of the red smears covering most of alex’s usually pale temples.
“So I’m done we just need to get you a wet cloth to clean up the ends.”
She looked behind her at the supplies and it dawned on her that she had forgot about a very obvious solution.
“Wait I’m so silly I forgot to use face powder!” She giggled at her own absentmindedness “We could use that to cover the other make up!”
Nivel walked over to the jar about the size of her body and pulled it over. Once she forcefully twisted the top off, she lifted the sponge like clump of felt covered in the white power. She did her best to gently cover Alex’s face especially where the smears were at their worst but she couldn’t help string up quite a bit of powder.
“Oh sorry cover your mouth” Nivel quickly recommended as she stirred up a particularly large cloud of powder, at least by her standards.