Makeup Mania

It's a bit shameful, well maybe it's a lot shameful...I was the victim of makeup mania!

I have found YouTube some kind of sick comfort during the long Canadian winter this year. At first it was simply entertaining to watch the gurus and how-to-videos from makeup lovers and addicts from different parts of the world. There was a strange, notable side effect though...somehow MY makeup collection is bigger than it ever has been before. Hmmm....

So the really sad part of this story happened very recently. I was in my local mall visiting the MAC counter when I noticed one of their new collections. There were a couple of nice pieces but the star of the show was a gorgeous BLUE eyeshadow. I picked it up, swatched it on my hand, admired how pretty is was and then...set it down.

24 hours went by and I thought I would like to have another look at that BLUE eyeshadow, so I went to a different MAC store closer to where I work. THE TESTER WAS GONE! I asked the girl behind the counter if they still had the BLUE eyeshadow and she said the most dreaded words in the makeup world; SOLD OUT!!!

My heart rate tripled and my hands began to sweat. WHAT? Sold out??? I seriously had the cold sweats that my opportunity for BLUE eyeshadow may have slipped right through my fingers because I didn't take the opportunity the day before to impulse buy BLUE eyeshadow!

This is serious, what has happened to me? I was a victim of makeup mania! Don't let this dangerous, unhealthy diagnosis happen to you. Limit your daily intake of gurus, new collections, and how-to-videos. Keep your sanity at your favorite makeup counter this spring and repeat this mantra; "less is more".

A quick side note: What is really sad is that I have never worn any shade of BLUE eyeshadow in my life. MANIA!!!