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Make Me Up like Memory

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My relationship with makeup is longstanding and deeply personal. I remember as a little girl watching my mother get ready for her Saturday night dates with my dad. It was the late eighties, so there was often blue eyeshadow involved. If I close my eyes, I can remember the way that chalky shadow smelled. And there were gobs of black mascara and probably even a Lancome kohl pencil (still my favorite) in the mix, too. I remember heading to the restaurant where my grandmother worked as a hostess and party planner. She’d stop at a red light and pull out a gold tube of lipstick to touch up her pout in the rearview before we sped up the long hillside drive to the El Morocco in her white Renault convertible. I couldn’t wait to be a grownup and do my own makeup like these two important women in my life. Sometimes I can’t even believe that I am now that grown woman with an arsenal of beauty products (and a rearview mirror) of her own. These days, I’m a new mom with a packed schedule trying my best to make all of the moving parts come together. Often, I prepare […]

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