hard work pays off | chuuves

again?

"Wait, the blusher goes here right-- Hey, stop moving!" Sooyoung lightly scolded her slightly giddy girlfriend who wouldn't keep still.

"I knew you were bad but you didn't tell me you were this terrible at makeup!" Jiwoo giggled, her nose tickling from the brush. Sooyoung pouted deeply at this.

"I never really needed to wear makeup during my predebut days. Haven't you seen me? Busan Goddess? Hello?" Jiwoo lightly scoffed. Sooyoung was getting haughty now. The younger of the two squeezed the latter's cheeks, earning a surprised high-pitched yelp.

"Well, the times have changed! You're now an idol who goes by the name Yves! Make up is a neccessity for idols nowadays, you can't keep relying on our stylist unnies..." Jiwoo suddenly smirked, "... Unless you want to look like Casper again, then by all means go ahead!"

Sooyoung coughed violently, almost surprising Jiwoo. "I've seen the clown tweets and they still haunt me at night." Sooyoung shudders which only makes Jiwoo turn into a giggling fit. They were both sitting on their own bunk beds, taking the advantage of the situation where all the members actually left the dorms for once. Even Hyejoo tugged along, after a thousand attempts of begging and bribes for food.

"I'm only coming because Chae asked me. It's not like I want food or anything!"

"Yeah, tell that to your full tummy later then, Hyejoo."

Sooyoung applied the final touches of the blusher, dusting Jiwoo's cheeks pink. Undeniably, she really was the cutest girl around. "Hey, I think I did pretty well with this," Sooyoung reached for the hand mirror, only to be stopped by her girlfriend who kept shaking her head.

"No, I want to see it when you're actually done. I like to be surprised."

Sooyoung retreated her hand and laid the mirror back on the bed. She didn't expect Jiwoo to actually be patient but that makes it easier for her. Now only thing left was...

The lipstick. Sooyoung gulped.

"So uhh. The only thing left to do is the lips..." Sooyoung bashfully said, her cheeks flushing a deep red. She doesn't know why is she nervous as hell.

"Mmh, yeah sure. Put on my favourite lipstick, the peach flavour. It should be in the kit." That was Sooyoung's favourite flavour to taste as well.

Jiwoo didn't seem fazed. This was normal. It's not as if they haven't stolen a few kisses backstage before, with Jiwoo gasping for air and Sooyoung kissing away what was left of Jiwoo's lipstick until it was smudged. A normal routine.

"O-Oh yeah. Sure. Le- Let me just search for it."

Jiwoo hummed her reply and sat patiently while Sooyoung rummaged through her make up kit, slightly letting out a deep breath when a certain peach coloured lipstick found its way to her hands.

"Found it?"

Sooyoung nodded in reply and turned around, only to be met with a sight of Jiwoo puckering her lips and closing her eyes. Like she was expecting something. Sooyoung held back every instinct in her from pouncing on the younger girl.

Stay focused!

Sooyoung shook her head from her distracting thoughts and moved closer, her heartbeat pounding louder with every second that passed by. With her sweaty, clammy hands, she tugged the chin of her girlfriend and slowly applied some lipbalm before using the lipstick, as what Jiwoo had said before they started this whole make up tutorial.

Put on the lip liner next.

Sooyoung dotted along various points on the outline of Jiwoo's lips like she remembered from that certain YouTube tutorial. Finally, she began to connect the dots before moving along to the real deal.