This morning I woke up just a little after 4:00am. I had to get up super early because I needed
to re-shoot a video I had originally made about 2 weeks ago. I live in Ohio which is probably one of the
most uncomfortable states to live in during the summertime. It is so humid here that 80 degrees to us
feels like 130 degrees in another state.
You can’t truly imagine what 90 or 100 degrees here feels like unless
you have experienced it for yourself.
Well, maybe if you can imagine what it would feel like to be trapped in
a hot tub or sauna unable to ever get out then you might be able to at least
begin to understand it. Anyhow, when I
filmed the video the first time it was morning and the moisture in the air was beading up on my
skin like I was standing in the shower filming.
So this morning I tried to beat the worst of the moisture by being ready
before the sun came up and filming just as the light started up over the
horizon. It was still so humid that by
the end of the 15 minutes it took to film my hair was already limp and starting
to stick to my forehead. Oh well. I tried.
That’s the thing about someone obsessed with beauty and fashion. We will go to great lengths to share
information with others who are equally obsessed. Only another person who enjoys it as much as
I do can understand where I’m coming from.
Anyway, in a few days that video will be edited and ready to view and
when that happens I will post the link here.
I can already tell you I still won’t be happy with it because there is
nothing worse than watching an hour and a half of time spent getting ready
melting away before your very eyes and knowing that there is nothing you can do
to change it for a few more months. Now
don’t get me wrong… summer is still my favorite time of year, but when it comes
to my appearance summer in Ohio certainly does not do me any favors.
I should probably also mention that part of getting ready
included injecting two different products into my daily routine. As you may or may not know, I am Avon’s Northeast
Regional Makeup Maven contest winner and an Avon Color Brand Ambassador. For the month of June I enlisted the help of
one of the Division winners and created an #AvonColorLottery which was designed
to challenge them to try new things in more ways than one every day for the
entire month. This week I am using this
platform to show them how trying two new and randomly selected products in
their daily routine could be a way to push their own boundaries. The products randomly chosen and used today
were the Glimmersticks eye liner in Cosmic Brown and the
Glazewear lip gloss in Clear. I snapped a few photos of the products on my face, took some time to
create a photo collage and loaded it to share.
I may as well show you also.
Up next are suggestions via email for possible revisions of my bio
that is going up somewhere (I don’t exactly know where) soon. There is nothing more odd than writing and
reading about yourself in the third person.
Checked the mail.
Looks like tomorrow I will be trying Origins GinZing Energy-boosting
moisturizer for the first time. I’m
always interested in good paraben free products so we will see how it goes.
One of the downsides of being a beauty and fashion fanatic
is that many of the daily duties in the incessant need to stay on top of the
most up to date trends require you to remain relatively sedentary and glued to
social media. In order to try and avoid
the beauty blogger spread (like how I did that?
I changed the word secretary to beauty blogger… oh nevermind) I try to
work on a few sit down activities in a row and then take a break to do
something that gets my heartbeat and my breathing pumping full force. The irony in this is that you have to forgo
any sort of real fashion for workout clothes (at least I’m not in my pajamas) and
the hair that you spent time doing goes up and the makeup you are wearing gets
worn off and you really can’t be seen in public today or no one will take you
seriously when you say you are working in the beauty industry because you look
a mess. This is also the one job where
there is no real professional name that describes what you do and when you use
the term “beauty blogger” in an attempt to wrap up the multiple jobs you
actually do with a nice little bow trying to explain it because we don’t yet
have an appropriate term for self-employed vlogger/sales person/public
persona/motivational speaker/stylist/personal shopper/writer/recruiter/advertiser/brand/critic/amateur
filmmaker/photographer/actor/script writer/entrepreneur/etc., not only do
people’s heads tip to the side in confusion like a dog who has just heard a
curiously high pitched noise, but your high IQ and triple major and
years of management and work history basically get flushed down the toilet
because all they understand is “Oh… she likes lipstick… isn’t that cute.” Surprisingly enough a beauty girl will often
be found doing something like spending two hours of her evening on a marketing
webinar call. In fact, that is exactly
what I did from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. It’s
not all lipstick. Luckily I find
marketing interesting as well.
My next required sitting down activity involves writing a
blog post on my Avon website. I often
forget to update this blog I think mainly because it has limitations and
absolutely no bells and whistles to speak of.
I have taken measures to change my negligent behavior by writing it down
in my standard to-do list and am making a conscious effort to stop
forgetting. I will link it here if you are interested in taking a peek.
(You will notice that links here will always show up in another color so
anytime you see that color it’s a good idea to click there and see what you
might have otherwise missed.) I will
give you a hint about today’s blog topic.
It has to do with the first revolution in the way mascara is applied in
AT LEAST 50 years.
Before I can go to bed I have to edit today's video. This one is on products I have completely
used up and whether I would repurchase them again or not. Who isn’t curious about what might be in
someone else’s trash?
.
No comments:
Post a Comment