Makeup Meme While I Wait for Laundry

I just got back from a very brief trip to Mexico for my brother’s wedding. All that tomorrow with pictures (I LURVE my new SIL) but right now I need to go to bed very soon so as to be fit for work tomorrow. I will also likely spend a good deal of time ranting about our plane in Mexico City getting requisitioned for an impromptu trip to Shanghai so we had to be rerouted, thus adding nine hours to our journey and rerouting us through Madrid, which is the most ghetto airport I have ever had the displeasure of flying through, Algiers airport is way more organized but anyway. Let’s do a makeup meme tonight because I have ten minutes before this laundry finishes and not enough time to do a wedding post justice. I ganked this from Ms Mac.

Foundation: I only wear it for extremely special occasions at night, and only if I have a dark headscarf (white headscarf and foundation are bad bad bad). Otherwise it is tinted moisturizer (big fan of Laura Mercier and Shiseido). In reality the only thing I wear every day on my face is SPF 345987 bazillion sunscreen.

Mascara: My husband does not like mascara. His sisters are big fans tho and while they get away with it me not so much. I have found that a good eyelash curler does the trick for me most days, and a nice understated no clumpy mascara is Chanel Inimitable when you just want color but not volume or length. I also like Maybelline (Gemey, if you will) Define-a-lash (cil definition) in the green tube. Rubber brushes are the way of the future.

Day Cream: Whatever TM I am using but usually just my sunscreen, which is either Clarins or Avene.

Essential Beauty Product: Carmex. I am a junkie and I cannot live without it. I need to join Lip Balm Anonymous.

Favourite Makeup Product: bronzer. I love bronzer. I am so white, the sunscreen makes me look whiter, and with bronzer on I look like a normal color. I am an equal opportunity bronzer lover and have tried them all, my favorite being Guerlain.

Perfume: My signature scent is an old skool grandma perfume, Chanel Cristalle. I rock the grandma perfume. It is what my mom wore back in the day (she has now moved on to more youthful things) but I just love it. Chanel was so hard to get in suburban New Orleans when I was a child, and it is just so nice for me to be able to walk into most pharmacies and makeup stores here and buy it. It is more of a summer scent though, so in winter I do something a little less lemon-y. Last winter it was Serge Lutens Santal blanc but I don’t know what it will be this year. Another standby is Chanel no 19 but Cristalle is my fave.

Nails: SOme of you know that I am an ex-pianist. As such I have a deep hatred for long nails, probably due to years of getting berated if they were more than a millimeter long. I keep them filed extremely short, and clean up my cuticles. There is also the whole Islam and nail polish thing where the going standard is that one shouldn’t pray with nail polish on (subject to differences of opinion, see my caveat in my About page) so I just try to keep my hands tidy and no more.

Hands: Piano hands mean Piano callouses. Like guitar callouses but on every finger. And when you stop playing, they don’t go away. I fight a losing battle with my cuticles on that.

Feet: I had nice feet until unfortunate ankle incident which gave me cankles, one on the hurt leg and one on the healthy one from favoring it. Other than that, I did ballet as a child and my toes are permanently bent into an en pointe shape and I have good arches, which means my feet look hot in a ballet slipper but not much else. My feet were my favorite body part until four months ago.

Three Products to bring on a deserted island: Carmex, sunscreen, and bronzer because I am vain like that.

Women I admire for their beauty: My mom’s skin looks fierce for her age. True story- the other day we went to a salon, and the lady said to me, “Hi how are you”, blew me off and then said to my mother, “OMG you are so beautiful”. I felt the love there, not. Emily’s mom (not going to link because I am not going to out people like that) also looks totally fierce and has absolutely perfect skin. The secret of these two women? They stayed the heck out of the sun. They both have the skin of someone ten or fifteen years younger. You can always tell the difference between someone who looks good because they took care of their skin, and someone who adds up the botox and the peels and the lifts.

Women with the Best Sense of Style: One of my old coworkers at the law firm has a quirky style that would look weird on me but looks good on her and she has the self confidence to rock whatever she is wearing. I think style isn’t wearing fashionable clothes but rather wearing classic stuff that looks good with your body type, and feeling good about what you are wearing. Look at Princess Di, she wore skinny jeans in the mid 90s even when they weren’t in, but she rocked those jeans so it looked good on her, even though they weren’t in fashion at the time. Ditto for her blue eyeliner fetish.

My Ultimate Dream: To have normal hair again once this whole thyroid-adrenal-who-knows-what-else business is over. Not that it is bad now, I just want my old hair back.

How Do I Define Womanhood: Self confidence and a DIY attitude.

Favourite Fashion Publication: I love makeup magazines. I wear so little daily, but I love looking at pictures of makeup. I am a freak like that. Allure is a fave just for the pics.

Mexico story tomorrow incha Allah! Good night

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