Welcome to my blog! If you are like me and tend to skim through large blocks of text while exploring blogs, skim away. For those of you a little bit more interested in an intro, then please read on!
As a young(ish) mother of two young children, lately I have found myself in need of a creative outlet; a virtual space to call my own where I can pursue and indulge in the things that I love. I am also several years removed from my college, and I need a place to keep up my writing skills. Although I have dabbled in writing, drawing, painting, music, and other artistic endeavors throughout my life, a consistent love of mine has always been makeup, fragrance, skin/body products, and a hobby of mine has been to use, read about, and purchase them. I want to channel that love into this blog, which I hope will become productive way to justify all of the time and expense that goes into my beauty addiction. ;)
When reflecting on where my love and attraction to makeup began, I often visit a memory of when I was four or five years old. When I was a youngster, my grandmother would frequently take my brother and I on trips to the mall. Usually these trips consisted of lunch at McDonald's and a trip to the toy store after a day of swimming a her local gym. During on of these visits, I don't remember if it was my mom's birthday or Mother's Day, by my grandmother took us to a drug store inside of the mall to chose a gift for my mom. Well, I remember, quite vividly, being attracted almost immediately to the makeup aisle, particularly to one eyeshadow quad in particular. (Looking back, I'm almost positive the brand was Covergirl because it had that distinctive rectangular quad design). And the colors were all bright and pastel-y- totally on trend for the 1980's. It was magnificent! My grandmother must have approved of my choice, because she purchased it and let me gift it to my mom, who kept that eye shadow quad for years. I remember the frosty lavender was one of the first colors to be nearly used up before she finally decided to toss it. That quad is iconic in my mind, amd represents how I am always drawn to color and sparkle, a quality I have never really grown out of.
This site is my space to celebrate beauty. On occasion, I hope to highlight other forms of art, be it visual art, music, film, literature, etc, because I am interested in it all! I believe that when we create, we are the closest we can be to our Divine Creator, who has gifted us with not our our abilities, but our interests, even if those interests are something as seemingly inconsequential as makeup. Makeup represents beauty and there is power in beauty. Makeup is an artform, and that is how I chose to celebrate it.
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