thanks, vicky

I’m 37, and have pared my routine down to tinted SPF moisturizer, blush stick, eyelash curler, mascara, highlighter eye pencil, and brow pencil. It sounds like a lot as I write it out, but ironically it looks like very little in person. My husband recently asked if I was still wearing makeup at all. I read recently that as our skin ages, we should look like we’re wearing less makeup, though we may be spending as much time and putting as much on as ever.

I am having a brief bit of nostalgia, though, for when I used bright green eyeliner on top and bottom, bright blue mascara, and rimmed the inside of my bottom lids with navy liner. Ah, college.

Two decades ago, heck, a decade ago? I’d be all over this product. These days, though? The only end cap that attracts my attention is one displaying a product my family uses at a price I can’t beat elsewhere.

Times. How they change, huh?

Thanks for your email message about our “On the nightstand” entry. Master M-mv has, indeed, read and seen Black Hawk Down. One day I must write about how his interest in the Marines inspires in me both pride and terror.

Enjoy a terrific weekend.

MFS

my all-time favorite mascara is coup de theater duo by bourjois which i usually get at sephora

http://www.sephora.com/browse/product.jhtml?id=P12807&shouldPaginate=true&categoryId=S10510

i know a lot of US companies are starting to make this now too (one side white lash “lengthener”, other side black mascara) but why would i switch now

i love this

and i once bought MAC mascara during a makeover b/c i forgot to bring mine with me. and i loved that too. but way too $$$ to make it worth it

of course i wear makeup ONLY when i “go out” so it takes me a year and a day to go thru a thing of mascara. i usually throw them out and buy new ones due to # of months i’ve owned them (in hopes of staving off eye infections) even tho they are only half or even less used up at that point