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Something you should know - I love {love, love, love} makeup. From the time I got the go ahead from my parents that I could wear it - I was twelve, and told all my friends, so they all bought me some for my birthday. (You know the 50 colors for $2.50 sets. I looked like a clown for months!) Through my teen years when I dug loose change out of the couch cushions to buy the latest issue of Seventeen. Right up to today when my pulse picks up a bit whenever I walk into the makeup section at Target. Love it.


So I am excited about two new (to me) products that I love and can't live without.

This is a face primer. I've been looking for an affordable one for over a year - ever since I read The Five Minute Face by Carmindy. (You know, the makeup artist from What Not To Wear. It's a fun book, and if you love makeup, too, it's worth the read.)

I. Love. It.

It does amazing things for under-eye dark circles, not to mention that when my skin decides to be nice to me, I can use it all by itself without foundation. On the days I can't, it does lovely things to make everything else go on smoother.

The other thing I love isn't really makeup, but it is for your face, so I'm counting it. That's a microdermabraision kit. Microdermabraision is a thirty-something's best friend. There are lots of different kinds. I have this one, and love it, the effect lasts for days. I'm talking baby-butt smooth. Smooooth.

I'd like to think my makeup skills are a little stronger now, but one person's smokey eye is another person's Tammy Fae Baker, so it's all relative.

As a last mention, another book that is fabulous is Kevin Aucoin's Making Faces. What that man could do with a brush was absolute magic.

I feel like I've written "makeup" about 4,000 times in this post. So here's one more - Hooray for Makeup!