Spiky Bugger
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So, estranged from my VERY upwardly mobile, conservative, ex-aunt-by-marriage-followed-by-divorce, I found out about her death a year and a day after the fact. No fights, no debates, we just didn’t fit into her world. I have a letter from her former daughter-in-law who wrote that my aunt had a social gathering that involved only “two or theee hundred of her closest friends.” (She was being sarcastic.)
Anyway, she was also VERY into appearances. A genetically thin woman who, first thing every morning had to draw on her eyebrows (I’m more of the Frida Kahlo School of Eyebrows), but had three sons, so had we all been closer, she might have been able to coach me into taking proper care of myself.
I have ZERO patience for primping. I have never owned…and my sister has ALWAYS owned and used DAILY…a dressing/make-up table. Hairstyle choice has always been “what’s EASIEST?” I’m pretty sure that ALL of my make-up is at least a decade beyond any reasonable “use by” date. Really. I mean, it’s OLD. And because it is to me an unnecessary expense, I have trouble throwing it out.
But, there may be something to be said for primping. In the first photo, she had DIY make-up and hair, it was late in the day and she was…are you ready?…92. In the second, not sure of age, but it was professional primping and lighting and it wasn’t much earlier. She was 97 when she died.
Anyway, she was also VERY into appearances. A genetically thin woman who, first thing every morning had to draw on her eyebrows (I’m more of the Frida Kahlo School of Eyebrows), but had three sons, so had we all been closer, she might have been able to coach me into taking proper care of myself.
I have ZERO patience for primping. I have never owned…and my sister has ALWAYS owned and used DAILY…a dressing/make-up table. Hairstyle choice has always been “what’s EASIEST?” I’m pretty sure that ALL of my make-up is at least a decade beyond any reasonable “use by” date. Really. I mean, it’s OLD. And because it is to me an unnecessary expense, I have trouble throwing it out.
But, there may be something to be said for primping. In the first photo, she had DIY make-up and hair, it was late in the day and she was…are you ready?…92. In the second, not sure of age, but it was professional primping and lighting and it wasn’t much earlier. She was 97 when she died.