I never used to think of myself as being into make up really. Hell, I didn’t even start wearing mascara until after I left university. However, in the past year or so my collection has increased dramatically (that could have something to do with me moving to a place that has a huge Boots store just up the road) and I have become much more adventurous. Eye liner, shadow, mascara, I love it all! And then last week I got an eye infection. My whole eyelid swelled up, I was on antibiotic ointment and I couldn’t wear eye makeup until it was better. I didn’t think this would affect me particularly, but it did. I felt I hadn’t quite finished getting ready on a morning, and there was not way of glamming up subtly for an evening meal out or a trip to the pub.
I finished the course of ointment on Monday, left it another day then yesterday, I tentatively applied mascara to my lower lashes and slicked on some eyeliner underneath my eyes. And what a difference it makes! I look in the mirror and I have eyes again! I feel feminine and that my look is ‘finished’. I think it is interesting how something that I never gave much thought to for so many years could affect me in such a way. Shallow as it may sound, I really missed my eye make up and will be glad when I am able to wear it just as I want again.
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