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 As a full time working mother trying to squeeze in workouts and blogging, I don't have a lot of extra time for pampering myself.  Let's be honest, I barely have time to brush my teeth and shower.  Drying my hair is a luxury reserved for weekends, date night and corporate meetings.

Barring that, I can usually be found wearing jeans, crocs, a ponytail and no makeup.

Until recently.

The other day I was picking my daughter up from school and I bumped into my friend.  She was telling me a story but I interupted her to say, "You look great!"

She laughed at me and said,  "I'm wearing eyeliner because I'm freaking exhausted and I figured it would distract from the dark, puffy circles under my eyes.  I guess that says how I normally look!"

She was right, it was the eyeliner. 

Since then I've been making an effort to wear eyeliner whenever I leave the house.  I typically don't wear eyeliner unless I wear shadow and mascara because they eyeliner looks too dark without shadow and shadow lightens my lashes so I need mascara... at least that's what I used to think.

The other day I bought a lighter brown shade of eyeliner that blends in better.  Now I can get away with a little eyeliner to bring out my eyes without spending 5 minutes "putting on my face."

It's made a huge difference in how I feel when I go out.

The other thing that I've been doing lately is making sure to put on lipstick whenever I get into my car.  It's not a big deal but it means that whenever I go out I have lipstick on and people have commented, "You look great!"

Besides, it makes me rub my lips together which helps me remember to smile - and really, that's the best accessory you can wear!

(Shown below: my GOTO lipstick, Clinique Black Honey - it's not a real shade, it just makes your lips POP!  Try it today!)

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Comments

[Pullmyfunnybone]

When I got laid off in August my hygiene went out the window. If I showered and brushed my teeth it was a very productive day. I got back on the hygiene wagon and I've been doing the same thing, trying to throw on lip gloss or something just to make myself feel like a human being instead of a useless member of society.

[Jim W.]

I'm not going to lie to you. . . i don't get as much out of these makeup posts as some of your others.

[Anne Flournoy]

Organized as it all sounds, you'll probably never need my favorite bumper sticker: "Caution: Driver applying lipstick"

[adelheid_p]

I never got the hang of putting on eyeliner. When I was in the local production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado, we had to wear it as part of our makeup for the show and I had to have someone else (usually my daughter) put it on for me.

[Paxochka]

I always wear eyeliner. Always always.

Try to draw the line actually ON your lashes. Then it's a finer line, adelheid_p. And what really really looks good is actually drawing a line on the inside of your eye. Yep. On the wet bit under your lashes. It makes them look darker and longer and thicker.