It's More Important Than You Realize!

Geez, this font business is really getting to me. If you think I wanted that obnoxious color for my last post, you are sadly mistaken! But I was so afraid of losing my post again, after having already done that, that I had to keep it, ugly and all! So sorry if you made your eyes go crazy! Bear with me, kiddos, as I learn my way around this blog business!

I had a real interesting week at work last week. Remember, I work for a line of cosmetics (very well known!) and the reasons women come into the store are as varied as the personalities. I don't know why, but we seemed to have alot of adult daughters and mothers coming in together and it was so cute how the daughters were so attentive to their mothers. One "couple" involved trying to rid themselves of their "old" lives and begin anew with new makeup. The husband/father was going through his mid-life crisis and tossing aside any remnants of his past "normal" life (including the women who had meant so much to him!) to move in with his wife's best friend! Can you say Jerry Springer?! Both mother and daughter were in desperate need (they told me) of hiding tired, sleepless eyes that just leaked with tears at every inopportune moment. Well, allow me to say, they looked AWESOME when they left! But the best part was that they both felt they "looked so beautiful!" I could just see their look of amazement as they looked at themselves in the mirror. The best, BEST part was that I felt that I had played a part in the start of their new lives. We hugged and I had never set eyes on these women before they walked in the store! Who knew that makeup could do so much for the soul?

Another wonderful pair that came in also needed a makeover from the inside out. The young woman had literally just returned from Iraq the day before! She still seemed to be overwhelmed by the world she had just re-entered, after having been overseas for 15 months. Her skin was all broken out and she said she was used to using "cheapy" cosmetics daily. What I found amazing, tho, was that she even bothered to put on any makeup at all! She said she never went without it! Women may be soldiers but they are still women first and that was nice to hear. She could not stop looking in the mirror at herself when we finished. She couldn't believe that was herself staring back! I thanked her over and over and over again for her service and told her how proud I was to help initiate her back into civilian life. (She was so thrilled she even told me how well I would be received by the other women soldiers if I went over to IRAQ! Thanks but no thanks!)

My point in writing about these two experiences is to prove that makeup is not some exterior, superfluous, self absorbed, unnecessary evil. When we look better, we feel better, through and through! My heart was bursting after working with these ladies. I hugged them as if we had been best friends for years, because little do they know, that they did 1000 times more for my soul than I could ever do for theirs!

See ya next week. Hope you have a great one!