Tag: mascara

I think I got snookered. You know how it is, you’re at the make-up counter and the perky sales girls are putting make-up on you, saying you look great, not tired at all. Your mood lifts, you’re feeling special.

The music is loud but not obnoxiously loud and something taps into your inner party girl, who, before kids, liked to look good going out on the town…you remember this girl. You like this girl.

And magically, not only does the under eye lift make you look younger and alive, the blue mascara brings out the gold flecks in your eyes. You fight away that old memory of blue mascara in the 80s, telling yourself, “noooo, this time I look good with blue mascara…the sales girl says so!”

A good rule of thumb: if you participated in the trend the FIRST time it came round, you’re TOO OLD to do it again when it comes back in fashion. Repeat after me: TOO OLD. Blue mascara, leggings, shoulder pads, all of it. Unless you are or have a stylist. Stylists know how to make these things work.

So there I am, eating all this make-up counter attention up like a giddy school girl, paying no attention to the baby strapped to my chest. I buy the under eye lift. I buy the blue mascara.

Then I get home.

What was I thinking??? I don’t think I was thinking.

That brings me back to being snookered. In the cold light of morning, when my eyes are indeed in need of all the help they can get, I put the under eye brightener on. It makes a modicum of difference – maybe there are a few light-reflecting pigments in the Ooh La Lift eye brightening boost that distract from the luggage I’m carrying under my eyeballs. Maybe.

But the blue mascara…C’MON.

On the silly side of things…I bought this new fangled mascara invention called “beauty tubes”. Supposedly, when you apply the mascara, it makes these tubes around your eyelashes and makes them look thicker and longer. Who wouldn’t want that, right? Especially after a night of no sleep, anything that makes my eyes look brighter and more alive is welcome.

I bought L’Oreal’s because I’ve been using their mascara for decades now and I must say that it actually does work, kind of. My lashes definitely look more full but I honestly don’t know if it’s because of the tubes or the amount of mascara that is required – they have this clear coat that goes on first, then the black stuff.

However, I got quite the surprise when I washed my face – I looked in the mirror and saw what I thought were all of my eyelashes running down my cheeks. I mean, tons of these little black lashes…and I was washing them down the drain. What would I do without any lashes besides look freakishly tired ALL the time?

As it turns out it was the tubes – they mysteriously detach in perfect tube form when you wash. I know, I know, “what price beauty…blah, blah, blah” but this is one very strange invention.

In other beauty news, I’ve been hearing good things about the ReJuv line of beauty products. There’s a good ReJuv Anti-Aging Skin Cream Review on SavvyTracker.com.