Couple months back I realized how much out of touch with current makeup fashions I had become when I began looking for a lipstick color to replace one I had used for years. There are a couple names for what I was searching for but obviously Frosted Peach, or Iced Peach is no longer a fashionable lipstick color. I tried multi variations of color combinations with no luck. I finally found what I wanted on one of those trips to OKC.
Thus set me on a path to looking at what it takes for Makeup in today's world when one isn't seeking just a replacement item in their home stock. It's unbelievable what a girl will gather over time without realizing how prices have marched up with time marching on. Dropping into the store and picking up one item doesn't result in sticker shock unless one looks at the items not on the shopping list. Forty dollars for a tube of lipstick? Did they include the man in the tube to offer up kisses after application?

Makes one feel sorry for the young girls starting out who need to build up their makeup kit from the ground up and not having a clue what works for their color and features. I imagine a couple million dollars of new makeup is tossed into the trash every year as the young beginners find out they made a really bad error in their choice at the counter. One of the managers at Walmart let me in on a not so secret, secret. Makeup is the most stolen items in the store amounting to a thousand dollar inventory loss every week. Who knew?

The not so obvious answer to the Makeup madness is to do the internet search now days. There are a lot of five dollar brands which are just as good and sometimes better than the forty dollar high end brands. The way to find out what works best for one's own color and features, trust me ladies, you do change both with time and age. What worked when you were twenty won't work when you're sixty. Young fresh can get away with almost anything. Certainly a lot of things they shouldn't but they are young and push the boundaries.

Sorry, my thought train got derailed there for a moment. With age it happens more often. Probably about the same frequency when I was still wearing diapers. Ladies there are a couple answers to the Makeup dilemma. One is to schedule an appointment with a Makup Artist. In my part of the world their prices range from forty dollars to a tad over a hundred dollars, depending on the artist and what a client wanted in the way of makeup. Makeup lessons run around two hundred forty dollars.

Take a surf through all the makeup drug store kits which are supposed to be the five dollar tube of lipstick as opposed to the forty dollar one.
Momma might have shared some of her beauty. To hold onto that with age takes help from a billion dollar industry dedicated to me just to make it happen. I know because they tell me so in every advertisement.
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