Originally for this project I was going to use a picture of
my best friend getting ready. He is the strongest person I know and I wanted to
celebrate him. He is a Drag Queen and will frequently go out in women's
clothing but as the due date got closer I changed my mind. I could not stop
thinking about my family, My mother; the youngest of eight children and the
youngest of five girls. They always seemed so old fashioned in how they went
about things and the odd obsessions they had.
“Not Dressed without your lipstick on.” This is a phrase my grandmother and aunts
used to say almost constantly while getting ready. My aunts were born in the
1950’s and my grandmother was a young woman in the 1940’s and 50’s, an era when
going out without
being dressed to the nines, with your lipstick on, and your
hair done was unthinkable. There are girls in middle and high school who will
not leave the house without having their makeup done. Why?
1 comment:
It is so funny that you choose to do this because this is not the first time of me hearing this saying “Not dressed without your lipstick on!” Although no one in my family does it or even wears lipstick my boyfriend’s mother will not go anywhere without her “lips” which refers to her lipstick. She brings it with her so that when it starts to wear off or she feels that she is having a “bad day” meaning that she isn’t looking her best she can add it on and starts to feel better about herself. Even though lipstick can make you stick out some, it doesn’t make a huge difference in your appearance. It is usually, about 99 percent of the time a bright red or a dark red which is not natural looking. I believe that if everyone would stop worrying about their looks so much, twenty four hours a day seven days a week that the world would be a better place and we would have our priorities in line worrying about more important things than “What she is wearing”.
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