I would have learned that it is a bad idea to carry only a makeup case* and a glasses case in my backpack when jogging home from work. The jostling! Oh, the jostling. With no lunchkit**, gym clothes, books, or shoes to fill up the space (these things are all too heavy to carry on the 6 km run), the makeup gets jostled all the way out of it's little plastic cases. It forms a uniform, slightly greasy, quarter inch thick coating of brown powder on every article within the case, and completely saturates the lining of the case itself.
I discovered the repercussions of my decidedly unGirly inattention to my toiletries the morning after the fateful jog. I managed to salvage the mascara, concealer and tweezer (really, did I need anything else?) and chucked the rest in the garbage.
Where does one acquire a makeup case? Do I really have to spend money at Clinique to get a "free" one?
* Okay, so my "makeup case" was an Air Canada-issue masculine toiletry case inherited from Ben, who had received it from McPie's mother's boyfriend (presumably for Ben's use as a toy). And this was an improvement on the snack-sized ziplock bags I'd been previously be using (cycling through) as my makeup case. I maybe would have flunked Girly School.
** Yes, I have a lunchkit! It's pink with flowers and Sweetie McPie puts a homemade lunch in it for me every morning. And yes, people at work make fun of me for it even though I keep it in my locker***. So there - I'd have at least passed Kitsch Class at Girly School.
*** YES! We have lockers at work. In our cubes. They're actually pretty handy.
**** Alternative title: "I am so lame."
4 comments:
one, lockers make so much sense.
two, why do you bring makeup to work if you are running home? i understand having makeup at work for touchups after a lunch workout maybe? i said i understand. i don't do it (touch up or workout during work hours. or at all really.) but i can understand it. but if you were planning on running home, why did you bring it in the first place?
the ultimate girly-girl solution is to have a second set of makeup that lives in a real makeup bag in your desk.
i think we need a picture of your lunchkit.
I was considering running at lunch time. Thus, the makeup for post-shower-back-to-work.
I occasionally bring makeup for touch-ups (if I have a breakout or something) but I NEVER end up doing it...
I keep a 2nd set of shower supplies in my desk (soap, deo, moisturizer, brush); however, this are uncontainer. Just chucked in there.
I promise to post a picture of my lunchkit. You will laugh your ass off.
I'd really like the capability to be able to edit comments - at least on my own blog.
By "doing it" I mean "using it".
By "uncontainer" I mean "uncontained".
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