The Flower of my She Cred
Continued
My Morning Make up Routine
Don't try this at home:
- Coat face in tinted moisturizer (SPF 15) to even color
- Apply blush, to replace color lost in moisturizer application
- Line top inner top lid
- Attempt to line outer top lid
- Give up
- Apply eyeshadow to lid and crease
- Optional: apply contrasting eyeshadow to brow ridge
- Apply mascara
- Optional: use cotton swab to remove wayward mascara from brow ridge, cheek, nose
- Line lips
- Apply lipstick
- Remove lipstick
- Brush teeth
- Reapply lipstick
- Arrive at work five minutes late
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Everyone knows someone who has a make up tick, an ever-present bit of ridiculous and garish artifice. Maybe this person you know wears way too much mascara, to the point where you wonder if she ever takes it off. Maybe it's heavily caked foundation that doesn't quite match her skin tone or hot-pink blush in two violent stripes under her cheek bones. You think to yourself, “she's such a lovely person, why on earth does she think that looks good?” The answer is that she doesn't. She doesn't think about it at all.
This is what happens when make up becomes a routine. You no longer look at yourself critically which, sad to say, is part of the process of wearing cosmetics. After a while there's a certain robotic quality to painting your face. You get to where you can do the basics while balancing your check book and pulling on your coat.
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