Makeup Musings!
- I grew up in a household where makeup was
seen as “worldly” and “sinful.” The only makeup I ever saw my mother wear was
liquid foundation.
- Even though as an early teenager I would
wash off any eye makeup I had used (usually a pencil liner for my lower lid),
my mom could always tell! She eventually
gave up.
- Plucking my eyebrows the first time was
painstaking. It was hard for me to tell what they looked like as the plucked
area was red and puffy.
- Although warned not to do so, my
girlfriends and I always swapped makeup, sharing colors, highlights, concealer,
blush, mascara. Experimenting was fun!
- With big dark eyes, colored eye shadow
never did a thing for me. I would try
greens, blues, plums, pinks. Only browns
worked.
- I’ve spent a lot of money on makeup. Drug store makeup. Department store makeup. At one time I was only an Estee Lauder girl.
- My favorite lipstick was Estee Lauder Café
Rose topped with Tiger Eye. Now, I
rarely wear lipstick. I still like it
but it doesn’t last. I’m not one to
carry it around with me to reapply. Maybe that's called freedom.
- Now that I’m older, I think about how to
change up my makeup. If you don’t change
it up, you can actually look older, less attractive, dated! Still trying to balance that.
- My favorite days are when I don’t have to
work, don’t have to shower, don’t have to do my hair, and don’t have to do
my makeup. Better than that is
having a husband who understands this and does not mind me being frumpy for a
day.
- Maybe she was born with it…maybe
it’s Maybelline!
