Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Is Anyone Paying Attention?

For the past few weeks now, I've been wearing lip gloss.

I have about a half-dozen sitting in my desk drawer downstairs.  For the first week or so, I would put on a clear gloss right before I left the house and put it back into the drawer.

For the next week, I started cycling through the glosses, picking a different one each day and putting it back in the desk after applying.  Most of the glosses are tinted, but in a shade close to my natural lip colour.

The next week, I changed my routine a bit: I put the gloss into my pocket and touched up my lips a few times a day.

Starting last week, I decided I liked one gloss better than the others: MAC Viva Glam V Lipglass (yes, they call it "lipglass").  So I've been bringing that one in daily, and touching up as needed.  I touch up in the men's room, as long as no-one is clearly present.  I will touch up if someone's in a stall.

I have a distinctive coffee mug.  It now regularly has a gloss lipmark on the rim.

No-one has said a word.

My plan going forward: finish this lipglass, then switch to one I don't love so much.  I'll probably pick up another of the Viva Glam V's but put it aside while I use up my other glosses.  As I use up the other gloss, I think I'll get a different brand and try that, instead of getting the same one ~ I want to see if I can find a new favourite, but I like the MAC so much I want to make sure I have a tube in case they phase it out.

If someone mentions the shiny lips or the lipstick mark on my mug, I plan to say, "it's probably the chapstick I'm using.  Or the lipgloss I put over it."  I'm not sure if I'll add the second sentence for everyone, but I suspect most people know me well enough to assume I'm making a joke.




4 comments:

  1. I've removed facial and body hair fairly regularly since about 1998 and seriously shaped my brows since about 2000 ~ almost nobody has commented.

    I've had pierced ears since about 2000 ~ almost nobody has commented.

    I've grown my hair out (it's currently down to the bottom of my bra band) and have a fringe (bangs) ~ almost nobody has commented.

    I've had long acrylic nails painted in fairly obvious colours for over a year ~ almost nobody has commented.

    I've gone out en femme, without a wig, in my local area ~ almost nobody has commented.

    Just because they don't say anything doesn't mean that they haven't noticed. ;)

    PS Yes, I've been making an effort to use tildes instead of hyphens ~ consistently. :)

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  2. Yay Alice! To both being true to yourself ~ and to spreading the word!

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  3. Don't confuse the tilde with em- and en-dashes!!!!! Also, nobody has said anything...to you your face! Plenty will have been said behind your back. Be realistic about your situation and you won't be setting yourself up for major disappointment.

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  4. The goal, anon, is to replace the dash ~ I don't care what width they are. Or a colon, for that matter.

    As for disappointment, I'm not sure what you could possibly mean.

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