So I don’t know whether I’ve mentioned this, but I was really not interested in beauty at all when I started assisting Scary Beauty Editor. Somehow this changed. I became very excited whenever new packages – full of beauty products – arrived for us and begged Scary Beauty Editor – to let me open it. (Now I am so used to boxes arriving for me that I sometimes moan about it because I don’t have space for everything in my office!) The first parcel I ever opened was a Mac bag full of a limited edition Mac make-up range. I loved it! Today, Mac it is still one of my favourite make-up brands. After a few months of being beauty assistant something very strange happened, which I confessed to Scary Beauty Editor – who by this time was not scary anymore at all so let’s just call her Beauty Editor – on a Monday morning: I visited friends and when I used their bathroom I was suddenly overcome by a forceful curiosity about which beauty products they used. I looked around in their bathroom at the beauty products on display and even – I can’t believe I am telling you this! – opened their bathroom cupboard to see which other products they use. When I told Beauty Editor she said: “Haha, Beauty Gal, you’re hooked!” and hooked I was! I have to confess that I still snoop around for beauty products whenever I am using someone’s bathroom; I love knowing which products people use. It tells me more about them. If someone had to peak into by beauty cupboard they would be very confused, because it kind of looks like the shelves of a beauty shop – just a lot messier – full of different brands and products, some half used, some never used and a few almost empty containers. Not that I use all of them, I am usually just curious to see what the fuss is about.
2 of my favourite Mac products which I can’t live without
Mac Angled Contour Brush – I love the way it shapes my face when I apply my blusher.
Mac Eyeshadow in Periwink.
One of the few Mac products which I don’t like is the Lipglass – I find it too sticky. On a windy day my hair always seems to get stuck on my Lipglass.
