With my lack of cosmetics or wave or color knowledge, I found it imperceptible that red and green naturalize each other. Funny enough, this random information came back to back in less than one month. It was all started with this:
1. Michelle Phan using mint green color stick concealer to counteract redness. Yep."As you guys know, green and red are complementary colors, they neutralize each other out." Whaa? I did not know that, Michelle!
2. Then, I decided to think less about make up, giving days like this a break and slouched on my bed reading Middlesex. Just when you thought hermaphrodite epic poetry (Calliope) with her twentieth century america wouldn't touch cosmetics issue....then came page 351 when Callie went to Sophie Sasson's saloon to have a "Waxing Lyrical", Sasson needed one hour and forty five minutes every morning to fix her face, and below is just a small portion of it:
"She had to apply eye creams and under-eye creams. She had to lay down various layers, like shellacking a Stardivarius. In addition to the brick-colored final coat there were others: dabs of green to control redness, pinks to add blush, blues above the eyes."
3. When the zeal to finish Middlesex is at the peak, I forgot to bring the book meanwhile I had to wait for somebody. My genius swift acumen swiveled me to a bookstore nearby to buy some book I'd laid my eyes upon merely because of its cute cover, Ayu Utami's "Lalita". Behold, red and green didn't escape me. At the back of the book there's this instruction to stare at a green three-petal form, arranged in a peace symbol with yellow rim. If you stare in several second then you shift your eyes to a white object, then look at that three-petal form again, you'll see pink scintillant hue. This is because green and red are "contraries" but not "oppositions".
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