You’ve seen the ugly swan become a gorgeous contestant on TV. You’ve seen similar miracles with single rooms and whole houses too. It’s enough to make one believe in Cinderella and her fairy godmother.
This week I started my own version of a makeover, although it will never turn into a television program. Why? Because it’s not drastic enough. It doesn’t amount to cosmetic surgery on a body or a building. It doesn’t cost thousands of dollars either. And it probably will go unnoticed by my friends and family.
What I did was go to Walgreen’s and buy some new make-up.
Now that might not meet your criteria for a makeover, but it certainly meets mine. That’s because I’m a rather low-maintenance person when it comes to this kind of stuff, and the cosmetic aisle in any store confuses me with it myriad names of products and companies. Names like lip gloss, lip shine, eye shadow, eye liner, and eye lash extender. Names like Almay, Maybelline, and Cover Girl. What’s the difference?
It also makes me wonder if the females spokespersons whose faces are frequently flashed all over the packaging have had major makeovers themselves. I’d like to think not, but the cynic in me argues against it.
What prompted this current makeover was that my old bottle of foundation was cakey. My eye lash thickener (See, I’m not even sure of the right words) had dried up, even after I put a few drops of water into the applicator; and my eyebrow pencil, which I actually use sometimes for outlining my lips, had become a short stump with nothing left to sharpen.
This happens every six months or so, and I take myself to Walgreen’s knowing I will leave there with new cosmetics but with no new insight on how to apply them. I’ll simply muddle through, and it makes me wonder if those contestants on the big TV shows do the same thing when the cameras are turned off.
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