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Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@DrewPavlou
Western civilisation enjoyer. Patriot. Adventurer. Anti-communist counter-revolutionary. Survived CCP kidnap plot. FREE TIBET.
Joined May 2019
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Let me give you a basic education on gay style Matt I will not insult you, despite you not only accusing me of having your photo saved on my phone, but also implying that a look retired four months ago is beyond critique. A look does not enter the public domain after 120 days. It is still yours. You still did it. This is not gay style. You can take a page out of Cher's book and be better than this. You argue that because camp is maximalist, more is always more. By your logic, a rhinestone glued to every surface of a house would also be camp. At face value this could not be true, so let's actually examine the canon you failed to ever read. First is the principle of Undertone Matching (any Sephora employee, unprompted). Foundation must match the neck, not the aspiration. Yours is two shades warm of your own throat, meaning your face and body are now operating in separate jurisdictions. That is not a look. That is a border dispute. "Take one thing off before you leave the house" (Coco Chanel, apocryphal, but so is your shade match) is the clear provision proving that restraint is absolutely allowed in camp. It is through this underlying principle that gay men are able to wear six inches of chrome nail and still leave the house looking intentional. What is not permitted is destructive maximalism: five different colours, five different shapes, one hand, no theme. That has a house edge and thus a negative expected value on your face. This is widely accepted by scholars. Sontag drew a line between camp that knows what it's doing and camp that doesn't. Divine's eyeshadow went to the brow because it was a decision. Your nails went to five colours because Claire's had a clearance bin. Recreation is canon, and restraint is the test. You wouldn't know this, but the Drag Race judges already permit a mismatched set once one nail is the accent and the other four agree with each other. Yours have not been introduced. To explain it more simply so that someone of your calibre can understand: the nails are bombastic, the foundation is the wrong shade, and the cap is doing all the work. My critique is grounded in actual craft. You on the other hand constantly make a fool of yourself by never knowing even the basics of "your" aesthetic. None of this is serving. None of this is what Cher wanted (and we both love a look, we just disagree on whether this is one). Educate yourself.
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