Look Me in the Face and Tell Me I'm Cheap
Okay, so I've been comparing my makeup (foundation, base, whatever you want to call it) to the widow's oil of the Bible, to varying degrees of horror and misunderstanding.
You see, I should have been out of foundation more than a month ago. Around Halloween, I figured I would run out any day. Each day since, I've been able to coax just enough out of the bottle to give me some semblance of life over my 4:45 a.m. pallor. A modern miracle!
Today, however, it all ended. The wine turned back into water (I'm mixing my parable metaphors!) and my makeup ran out. I even tried unscrewing the top, but there's just too little.
This is made worse because, due to this contest, I can't afford good skin products.
Today is officially my first day of trying to simply wash my face using a bar of Dove soap. It goes so strongly against what every magazine has ever told me that I really feel wrong using it. So far I can't tell much difference, but I do smell a lot like my grandma.
You see, I should have been out of foundation more than a month ago. Around Halloween, I figured I would run out any day. Each day since, I've been able to coax just enough out of the bottle to give me some semblance of life over my 4:45 a.m. pallor. A modern miracle!
Today, however, it all ended. The wine turned back into water (I'm mixing my parable metaphors!) and my makeup ran out. I even tried unscrewing the top, but there's just too little.
This is made worse because, due to this contest, I can't afford good skin products.
Today is officially my first day of trying to simply wash my face using a bar of Dove soap. It goes so strongly against what every magazine has ever told me that I really feel wrong using it. So far I can't tell much difference, but I do smell a lot like my grandma.
2 Comments:
Blech. I've been trying to switch over to drug store brand makeup, and I'm days away from running out of my "good" foundation. The truth, though? I don't actually like either of my good foundations (Clinique and Bobbi Brown) very much. So is it really so bad to switch to Maybelline? I don't know... but I feel like it's some sort of sacrifice.
Isn't that silly?
(I'm also out of powder and mascara... and there really IS a Clinique powder that I LOVE, but I refuse to buy it.)
Carrie, when I get down to the dregs of my makeup bottle, I pull out the ultimate weapon ... a Q-tip. It gets rather soggy, but I often manage to get enough to smear around a few more times.
Your "tight fisted" Missy
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