We Is All Old

I got my hair cut, and I hate it.  She did exactly what I asked, it just doesn't look like I thought it would look.  I'm tempted to dye it a stupid color because it makes me look old, but as I recall from having dark red hair, the darker hair makes my wrinkles show, for some reason, so now I don't want to do that either.  I did go to Sally Beauty and look at all the funky colors.  I just couldn't figure out what I would do.  No matter what color it is, it's still this shape, and the idea of having to keep up a color like that...and what do I do when I'm sick of it?  I don't think blue and cotton candy pink come out very well.  I know red pretty much refused to come off my hair before.

After I got the haircut I went to Sephora to try to console myself.  I wound up spending $85, and I came away with the same eye shadow I wore in high school, more or less.  That was a fat double-ended Borghese pencil (charcoal grey and silver) and this is two pots of Stila powder, but just the same.  Do I feel better?  A little, but I think putting a very narrow Alice band on my head did more than the make up.  I did buy the Stila four-pot container, so I got the double pot of brown/taupe definer and a Kitten eye shadow too.  So, the container, the four pots and the mascara = $85.00.  Eek.

I also needed new mascara and since I had sales assistance to try any damn mascara I wanted, I'm sure I got the best thing for me.  It's Lorac, a brand of which I'd never heard before.  It's nice mascara.  Next time I feel like spending $15 on a mascara lark, I will pick up a tube of the Shu Uemura electric blue.  You know, the horrible high-school-cheerleader-mascara-color.  I know Max Factor used to make it...I wonder if they still do?  I could pay about 33% and still get the enjoyment out of the occassional wearing of that wacky mascara.

Ben Brown has a piece up that has to top all banking/credit card screw-jobs that I've ever observed.  I think the indignity of having much of this occur at the hands of an employee of an outfit called "Potato Barn" is just too much.