“Do you use powder foundation or liquid?” my friend Robin
asked as she took me on my first visit to Ulta Beauty on a recent trip to
Lansing. I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Ulta, but it is a vast showroom of
everything girly and make-uppy. “Powder, why?” “Well, my sister told me that
because we are over 50 now, that we should wear liquid foundation because it
doesn’t look so caky on our skin.” She showed me the Lancôme foundation she
switched to and we proceeded to try and figure out what color I needed. That
led to me sitting on a tall metal chair with a young woman applying makeup to
my face. “I’m going to need something for these dark circles too,” I added. It
was wonderful. I haven’t had someone put makeup on me, ever. And I have to
admit, when she was finished I looked amazing. Nothing close to the clown-esque
job I do with liquid foundation. The closest thing I have gotten to someone
putting make up on me was sitting in front of a little plastic tray at
someone’s Mary Kay home party. And that was just me, applying it myself while
the Mary Kay consultant squirted little blobs of makeup in the tray. This was
different. I wondered if this is what Hollywood actors felt like before a
scene. The associate told me about blending and proper cleaning of brushes
before she handed me my new little bottles of rather expensive make up and sent
me on my way. I remembered that if I’m going to start wearing liquid make up
again, that I probably should start washing my face at night, which I haven’t
done since my last go-around with liquid make up. But then when I considered
the now added step of nightly face-washing, I was also going to need night
cream. Is it just me, or is my column starting to sound like “If you Give a
Mouse a Cookie?”
If you give
a 51 year old woman liquid foundations, she’s going to need to wash her face.
And if she washes her face, she’s definitely going to need some night cream to
go with it.
But you should know me well enough to know that I ended up
with the foundation, concealer, the little egg shaped spongy ball, face
cleaning wipes, and night cream. OH and while I’m here, I’d better get some
mascara too, right? It actually didn’t happen quite that quickly or seamlessly.
Some of the items were bought at Ulta. Then I was introduced to the equally
wonderful Sephora, where I got the night cream sample and mascara. Finally, I
wound up at Walgreens for a full container of night cream and the spongy little
egg shaped ball. And all of this happened because Robin’s sister said that
women over 50 should wear liquid foundation.
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