At least, that’s what I’m telling myself.
I was scrolling the blogs this morning, and noticed an interesting ad on someone’s sidebar. Cover Girl™– or maybe it was Maybelline™, some make-up company– was touting sixteen new shades for the summer season. SIXTEEN!!! I sat there and seriously wondered who would own sixteen different lipsticks, though to be fair not all women (or men) could wear the same shades. And for only ONE season. I mean, if I find a shade I like, I don’t retire it because Emily Post said so, you know what I mean? Anyway, I was still muttering about how silly some women are for having so many lipsticks, and went to my make-up basket, and counted….
Not only did I have over 20 lipsticks, I had duplicates of the same shade! Some from Bare Escentuals™, some from Estee Lauder™, one from Guerlain™, and even Chanel™. Oh, and then I found even more hiding in a Tupperware™ container, and shamefully, those I have owned since I used to sell Mary Kay™.
Back in 1997.
But the worst part about this whole thing? I seldom wear lipstick.
So today I shall be deleting old make-up from my stash. And before you ask, no, you may NOT have the Chanel™ lipstick. I do like that one 😉
June 2nd, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Same here, I rarely wear lipstick. I’m pretty sure I have never bought a lipstick, everything I own is from the freebie Estee Lauder gifts. I’d buy Mom’s favorite skincare stuff for Mother’s Day or her birthday, and we’d split what was in the gift pack. Which also means that I haven’t even gotten a freebie lipstick in three years.
June 2nd, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Want some of mine??? 😀
June 2nd, 2012 at 11:23 AM
I have a pink, a rose, and a Joan Crawford red. I think I’m set. Thank you anyway 😀
June 2nd, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Every time I put any on, it looks so odd to me I blot 90% of it off. But hey, I understand having more than one in the same shade. If you find something you like, you never know when it will be discontinued!
June 2nd, 2012 at 12:51 PM
I wish that were my excuse, but I’m pretty sure I just plain forgot I had them in the first place 😀
June 2nd, 2012 at 12:36 PM
I don’t wear lipstick, but I don’t mind getting’ it on my lips.
June 2nd, 2012 at 12:51 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Smartipants!!
June 2nd, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Man…I haven’t worn lipstick in YEARS!
…I mean…*ahem*…
June 2nd, 2012 at 1:05 PM
You do when you kiss your wife 😉
June 2nd, 2012 at 4:51 PM
If she wore lipstick, yeah, maybe. So far, I’m up to lip-gloss, and that’s about it.
June 2nd, 2012 at 8:20 PM
You should get together with Laura. With her nail polish and your lipstick, you could Rule The World!!!
BTW, new wisdom at NSKMD.
June 2nd, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Did you not witness my awesome hand modelling skilz?? With a KNIFE, even??
*sobs in grief*
June 2nd, 2012 at 9:25 PM
Miss it the first time. Awesome piece. Very Old School.
Not the nails, the blade. The nails are nice too. 🙂
June 3rd, 2012 at 8:45 AM
The only lipstick I own are freebies that my mom-in-law gives me whenever she buys Clinique and gets the free gift thing! I never wear lipstick- although I have been told I should!
June 3rd, 2012 at 12:51 PM
If you’re shy of color, try a sheer lip gloss first, and go from there!
June 3rd, 2012 at 9:36 AM
I have never worn lipstick, hubby hates it and won’t kiss me if I have it on!
June 3rd, 2012 at 12:52 PM
Hubby has expressed similar sentiments 😉
June 3rd, 2012 at 11:11 AM
Now I wish I’d thought of this while at UT. Set up a booth in front of the Undergraduate Library: “Lipstick Removal Services.”
Yum.
Oh, and “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
June 3rd, 2012 at 12:52 PM
HA! Not too late 😉
June 3rd, 2012 at 12:47 PM
My Muse has the same . . . UN-addiction . . . with lip gloss, Ma’am.
She like taunting me with the flavored ones . . .
June 3rd, 2012 at 12:52 PM
And I bet you rise to the bait offered juuuuust fine 😉
June 3rd, 2012 at 1:29 PM
I humbly beg your pardon Ma’am, for not correcting you when you innocently assumed I was, employing a more popular term from the public discourse, “smart” . . .
I allowed three roadside bombs to have their way playing with me . . . how could I be “smart”?
June 3rd, 2012 at 1:33 PM
My word… it fails me. Smart you are, tough is obvious, and as for me, I’m grateful you won the game in the end.
June 3rd, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Thank you for your kind words, Ma’am. It would seem, however, that I have lost some of my marbles along the way.
At least I still have The Great Masher™ in my pouch . . .
Short some “Cat-Eyes”, alas.
June 3rd, 2012 at 1:53 PM
Well, what about an Aggie or two? 😉
June 3rd, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Force of habit. I took my lessons on Customs and Courtesy very seriously, building on what I had been taught growing up.
I am a rare oddity, a Gen X’er from New York, who is generally polite and considerate.
Unless I make contact and am now engaged in a firefight . . . then I got . . . surly.
Or at least of ill temper.
June 3rd, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Rare indeed, but much appreciated, though “oddity” is not a term I would use.
June 3rd, 2012 at 4:00 PM
I’m lucky I can leave Chap Stick on my lips for 10 minutes, let alone any lipstick.
June 3rd, 2012 at 4:06 PM
But the hand modelling more than makes up for it!!