What Happens When You Can’t Bring Yourself to Say No to the Makeup Counter Lady Who Desperately Wants to Give You a “Smokey Eye”

by Kristen King on April 4, 2009

(www.sass-pants.com) — I had no idea that trying on that turquoise eye shadow would lead to THIS. Thanks, persistent makeup counter girl with the unpronounceable name. I now look like a cheap whore who was attacked by a peacock, and my husband can’t stop laughing.

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Said my friend Betsy, who was there with me, “It was so bad, it was all I could do not to laugh. I wanted to grab that girl and say, ‘Stop doing that to my friend!’” I wish you had, Betsy; I wish you had.

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1 Lori April 6, 2009 at 12:23 pm

Gee, it looks like you’ve just increased your carbon footprint to the size of DuPont’s.

Remember, we’re not laughing at you – we’re laughing with you. A lot. In fits of hysteria.

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2 Kristen King April 6, 2009 at 12:39 pm

Heh, I know! Gawd, it was awful. I could not stop laughing the whole way home. We barely made it out of the cosmetics department before we collapsed into hysteria. Alarmingly, the makeup was not affected by my tears of laughter. ::shudder::

3 Lori April 7, 2009 at 7:34 am

Makeup counter ladies amaze me. They think more is better. Obviously, this one was a bit color-blind….oy!

FWIW, if your eyes are green as they appear to be, that disco blue/green is NOT the color. Lord, that’s not the color for ANYTHING. Well, maybe safety vests or glow-in-the-dark stuff, but NOT for eyes. Your eyes aren’t smoky – they’re radioactive!

BTW, how much stuff did you use to get that all off? :)

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