The Ereri Project!

Make-Up

A/N: 10 animes...

1) Attack on Titan
2) Psycho-Pass
3) Death Note
4) Black Butler
5) Mirai Nikkie
6) High School Ouran The Host Club
7) Fullmetal Alchemist
8) Deadman Wonderland
9) Corpse Party
10) Love Stage

I DID IT! CAN YOU DO IT TOO?

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Levi knows what this is.

He knows because Eren does the exact same thing.

Petra just walked in the kitchen and kissed his cheek before getting a drink and sitting across the table from him. When he looks up, she's smiling at him. "Morning Daddy," she says.

He blinks a few times at her before looking back at his newspaper. "What do you want?"

She scoffs, slapping her hands of the table. "I told Papa it wasn't gonna work."

Levi chuckles and looks back up at her. She's all of thirteen but she kinda looks like a six year old again with the way she leaning on her hand with that look of annoyance on her face. "Anyway," he says. "What do you want?"

"Well," she says, looking around the room to avoid her father's piercing gaze. "Papa says you know a lot about makeup and I was wondering - since you know I'm going to high school next year so I should already know - if you could show me how to wear it... maybe?"

Levi stares at her before lofting his paper back up.

"Dad?" she asks.

"After breakfast," he replies, not looking up.

"Yes!" she shouts and gets up to do a happy dance before running off to find Eren.

Levi just shakes his head.

...

At the store, frankly, Petra is a little overwhelmed.

However, Levi has been buying this stuff for so long he knows exactly where he's going. Petra follows him closely as he walks through the sections, looking for something, occasionally glancing at her. "You okay?" he asks eventually.

"Huh?" she replies.

"You're being unusually quiet."

"Sorry," she says. "I just figure you know more about this stuff than me so I should stay out of your way."

Levi makes a face at her. "You have to wear this stuff so you should have a little more say, c'mere."

She walks over and stands beside him, he's looking at different kinds of mascara.

He holds up one in a pink bottle with a green handle. "I usually use this brand," he says. "But it really only comes with this kind of wand so if you want something with a different shape you'll have to look for something else."

"They have different shapes."

Levi nods. "Sometimes they're curved or little pointy things are made from different materials for more or less coverage."

"I think I want something a little more standard to start with," she replies.

"This is a good one then," he says and hands her the pink and green one.

After that he takes her to look at eyeliner. "These come as pencils, gels, of liquids," he says. "Personally I prefer pencils if it's going near the inside of my eye and liquids for above my eyelashes but that depends on what you want. Do you want me to show you how to do a cat eye?"

"You mean the thing with the little wings?"

"Yes."

She nods. He picks up one of the liquids, it's completely black and the well where the eyeliner is looks very tiny, and a silver pencil with a little black tip showing what color the pencil is and hands them to her.

After that he takes her over to the lipsticks and glosses. "A little bit of this is the dad thing," he says. "But I think you should start with lip-gloss instead of lipstick. It's a little easier to wear and I think it looks better on younger faces."

"Okay," she replies.

She moves her over in front of the lip-glosses. "Do you want a darker one or one that looks a tiny bit more natural?"

"I don't know," she replies.

Levi makes a face before picking two up. "I'll get two colors and you can try both of them."

Petra looks confused when after that they start walking toward the register. "What?" Levi asks.

She looks at him, biting the inside of her cheek. "Don't I like, need more?"

He cocks an eyebrow. "More?"

"Like concealer or whatever and eye shadow?"

Levi looks at his daughter. "I don't want to say that you're a little too young for those, but you are. You don't need primer or foundation or that stuff because you eat and live healthily enough that you have really good skin that doesn't need to be covered up yet. You'll find that that's a problem a lot of girls end up giving themselves, they wear too much makeup too early and don't pick up a good cleansing regimen so they end up giving themselves bad skin that they feel the need to cover up more."

"So what about eye shadow?"

"I'll show you how to use that when you go to your first homecoming dance. You don't really need it yet except for special occasions."

She nods and they go pay.

When they get home, Levi stands in the bathroom with her and shows her how to put everything on, she likes both lip-glosses so she keeps them both. "That's all you need to know for now," Levi says, taking out the hairclip he'd used to hold his bangs back.

She smiles at her reflection, thinking she looks a little more mature before looking up at Levi. "Thanks Dad," she says, grinning.

Levi smiles back and ruffles her hair. "No problem, hazelnut."

Eren is standing in the hallway when Levi walks out of the bathroom. "What do you look so smug for?" Levi asks, walking to their own bathroom so he can wash his eyeliner and mascara off.

"I'm proud of you," Eren replies, following him.

"Why?"

"Cause I'm glad you showed her how to do all that."

"Someone had to," Levi replies. "I'd rather do it so I can tell her she doesn't need half the things those "beauty tutorials" online would tell her she needs yet."

Eren kisses his cheek. "You're a good dad."

"Yeah, yeah," Levi replies, shoving Eren so the taller man doesn't see the embarrassed flush to his cheeks.

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A/N: I don't wear or own any makeup... unless Baby Lips count! So I had to do some researching!