When Halloween Zombie Makeup Goes Horribly Wrong!Little girls love
playing grown up by mimicking the things they see their moms do. That
includes the mysterious activity of applying makeup. I remember sitting
on the bench next to the bathtub watching my mother putting on her
makeup when she got herself ready to go out with my dad for the evening.
First, she’d lift a fluffy pink puff from a small round box of loose
powder and pat it all over her face and next. Next came the rouge. Blush
was called rouge back then, and it came in a tiny case with a twist off
lid. Mom would press a finger against the pat of rouge inside the case,
tap it in dots across her cheek bones, and then blend it in. To me,
that rough made my mom look like she’d spent a day in the sunshine. The
next container that appeared in my mother’s manicured fingertips was a
red rectangular box of Maybelline mascara. She’d push the case in on one
side causing a drawer containing a hard black cake of paste and a
really little toothbrush to pop out from the other side. This was before
mascara came in cylindrical tubes with the brushes hidden inside. Mom
would scrub the bristles of that little brush against that pat of black
paste and then comb her eyelashes. Like magic, my mom’s lashes would
lengthen and thicken right before my eyes. The mascara was followed by
an application of eyeshadow. Eyeshadow back then looked like whipped
cream and it came in a little round box with a twist off cap. Everyone,
including my mom wore blue. Eyeliner came packaged pretty much like the
mascara except it had a Barbie-sized paintbrush instead of the little
black toothbrush. Mom would wet the paintbrush with water from the tap
to make the cake of liner work. Using her pinkie finger, she’d stretch
out an eyelid and paint a slender black line on her skin next to her
lashes. And just like that, my mom looked like on of those ladies on
television. The finishing touch came in a brilliant red bullet of color
that rotated out of its short narrow tube with a twist. Lipstick. Candy
Apple red lipstick! Mom smoothed the lipstick over her lips, kissed a
Kleenex, and then replaced all of her mysterious containers inside the
medicine cabinet. When she was finished, my mom looked prettier than a
movie star!! One night after my mom and dad left for dinner and a movie,
and my Aunt Alice fell asleep on the sofa in front of the television,
guess what I did? Yup, you got it. I snuck into the bathroom, upended
the trashcan, climbed on top, and got my hands on Mom’s makeup. When I
finished applying the finishing touches to my face, I was shocked to
find I had not achieved the same movie star results as my mother. For
all my efforts, I ended up looking like a zombie from a horror movie. Do
you have any "horror" stories of you or your kids getting into your
makeup? Share them - I'd love to laugh right along with y ou! Posted by
Deborah McTiernanAuthor of Lilly Noble & Actual MagicParanormal
books for teenagersDeborah dares her readers to believe in themselves
and discover the magic within.www.deborahmctiernan.com
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