Monday, August 23, 2010

housewives vs the cosmetic counter

I have officially hit a new low.  I have been running low on makeup.  You know you are in trouble when your beauty routine is comprised of a pony tail and barely any makeup.  Lets be serious here....I am no supermodel.  A pony tail and barely any makeup is not "adorable" on me....it is scary.  I used to be a real makeup whore.  I was a slave to those promotions where you spend something like $49 and get a whole bunch of freebies.  My drawers were full of options.  I had time to go into makeup counters and "play" with makeup.   I had different "looks" depending on what I was doing.  But since I have had kids the only I have time to "play" with are cars and trains.  So instead of picking out new looks I have been picking lipstick out of the tube with my fingernail.    It is no wonder that housewive's start to look a certain way.  I was walking around downtown chicago last week with the kids and all of a sudden I realized that I looked like one of those women that I used to pity when I was a working gal!

So when a magazine arrived recently it had various tiny foundation samples stuck under sticker like things on the page.  It was meant to peel away the sticker to get a sample color of the foundation.  Of course I spent the next week using this as my foundation even though the range of colors on the sticker page could not have been a worse match for my skin tone.  To make matters worse I then tore out the $2 coupon and took my three kids to Walgreen's where I selected the makeup in about three seconds flat.  The kids were two aisles away yelling about Silly Bandz  When I got into the car and applied my new $5 lipstick my daughter asked if I was going to a party.  It was 10am and sadly I had no party options.....

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