Adam Lambert-Gilding the Lily With a Goatee?

The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards – Red Carpet

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Gilding the Lily with a Goatee

by Xena

*Perfectionism is a curse!  It slows down my writing and posting and then circumstances change!  Of course nothing I do comes out perfectly, so why do I do it? I wrote this a while ago, posted it on the fan club site and then decided to make a post for the Salon which required of course – photos!  Anyone reading this will agree with me that when you are searching your Adam photo libraries for the perfect illustration, time stands still.  You become hypnotized and before you know it, the cock crows and the sun rises.  By now, the story has moved on and I either scrap it or update.  The saga of the hirsute Adam continues…..

Many men grow facial hair to correct flaws or to distract the onlooker’s eye from an unattractive aspect of the face. Women perform similar sleight of hand tricks with make-up, jewelry and hair. Actually Adam has all those in his arsenal of beauty ammunition too, yet he needs so little help to enhance that visage!

 Does Adam need to disguise a flaw? Let’s do a little inventory of needed facial enhancements. Does he need to create a chin where none exists? Camouflage a too-long upper lip? Lengthen a square face? Minimize a protruding proboscis? A resounding “NO” to all of the above and let’s face it – the look requires daily maintenance. Hmm…… working on the mustache or tweeting fans? Trimming the beard or cuddling with a loved one? Touching up the colour or shopping! Really, which options would you recommend?

Is Adam attempting to distract from an unattractive facial feature? What unattractive feature? I can assure you that along with millions of others, I have researched both sides in profile, full-face, three-quarter aspect and even the back nape of the neck. Nothing, nada, niente, rien, zip, zero….. to hide.

 There is something that I did learn from Seventeen Magazine when I first learned to apply make-up. Draw the onlookers eye to your best feature, the focal point in a room if

Please note jaw and neckline - only

you  will. Check out J-Lo, the Most Beautiful Person according to People. While each feature of her face is exceptional, she will emphasize her eyes with dramatic make-up and pale lipstick to keep us focused on her eyes. Lips prettier than eyes? Skip the sequined eyes and strut the Stiletto Red lipstick.

I don’t think there is any argument to the statement – “Adam Lambert’s eyes are non plus ultra”. Eyes are the portals to the soul, the personality, the character, the thoughts. Perfectly arched eyebrows are a frame, further drawing us in. The direct, unabashed gaze, the “you are the sexiest person in the room” look, bemused, amused, saucy, coy and kill-you-dead-in-your-tracks expressions. Does he rehearse in a mirror to perfect these expressions? Doubtful because they are not facile, they are just the form his features take to reflect how he feels or wants us to think he feels. Rarely if ever, does a cryptic message telegraph from that face.

Pale eyes like the blue topaz of Adam’s reflect light so they sparkle in the beams, forcing you to look there. They look wide open, like the lid removed from the well, inviting us to look inside. We do, seeking treasure.

We’ve seen the angry Adam rarely, just when confronting the feckless papps or interfering security personnel stage-side. He can work the eyebrows, eyes, the scowl, voice and body to intimidate. Does he need a beard to help?

The facial hair is a second focal point of his face and moves our gaze from his eyes to his beard, not even his attractively freckled lips, just the dark outline of the goatee, emphasizing perfect teeth and then back to his eyes – it’s Adam Lambert facial ping-pong! I’m dizzy already!

 Perhaps he just wants to present a more swaggery, swashbuckling look – Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood or Captain Blood? Maybe an homage to the mucho macho Village People and just like the Village People, fun for a while. If Adam wants to play Pirates & Damsels – I’m in!

Is Adam any less handsome avec la barbe, mais non! I just miss the focus on his eyes, which speak to us in a way the beard cannot.

Adam’s Eyes need their own section in this fan club. They’ve been photographed in every way imaginable, inspired art and poetry, new adjectives have been invented and they are instantly identifiable. How many times have I celebrated them? I just found another justification to write a few hundred words about them and post some photos!  Of course a few other photos to illustrative other attractive aspects of the Adam facial landscape help too.

I hope I don’t wake up to the latest photo to discover Adam has shaved everything and gone ginger!