Monday 30 May 2011

Mirror shock

I looked in the mirror today. I mean really looked. Not just the necessary glance to check that I won't scare people from a distance look, a really close up inspection and I was dismayed by what I saw.

Now I know that my dark roots are half way down my head, my twice yearly visit to Le Salon is overdue but I wasn't prepared for the number of twangy grey hairs and is it me or have the roots got darker to show up the silver just that little bit more.  I used to get my eyebrows threaded until my last session "too thick, too thick" the lady kept saying after I nearly removed the arms off of the reclining beauty chair and flung them at her.  Ouch!  Then I went to wipe away what looked like black smudges in the corner of my eyes. Noooo I thought they only existed in adverts - dark circles, only mine looked more like unlit trenches.

So I swept the two inches of dust off of my free gift size make up bag and found my tweezers, concealer and nail varnish well that never fails to girly things up.  The results after beautification: bright red puffy eye brows from a major plucking (ooh err!), accentuated dark circles wonderfully high lighted by an inadequate concealer and since when has nail varnish made your hands look more masculine?  I looked at the pitiful selection of lipsticks in my bag wondering whether they would improve the undead boxer in drag look.  Perhaps not.

In the words of Pink Floyd "10 years have got behind me" and my make up bag.  I'm going to have to go shopping.  Initial excitement but I've no idea what products would help.  The existing contents of my bag had taken years of research and perfection, trial and error and magazine reading but that was in the days when I had the time.  There's no avoiding it though I shall have to make time.  I've been complaining of late that all I do is clean the house so there are really no excuses.  So new beauty product research for the over 40's (gulp) here we go.