Fear of Lipstick

I am hyper aware that taking the challenge of swimming in the dark night water is a much different fear than being afraid of lipstick, yet these two things live side by side inside of me. I won’t spend any mental energy thinking about how they might be related, but I will take a break from some pretty hefty topics like the number of days left in your life and facing the unknown to talk about the fear of lipstick. The Problem Lipstick smells weird. And there are too many choices. It looks like candy, but it melts fast—all over your face. I get a little excited when I talk and I’m sure there is eating involved and my hand going to my mouth in shock when someone is telling me a story, or I bite my bottom lip, and I’m always kissing people, so I know all of these things do not lend themselves well to wearing lipstick. But still. There should be something invented for people like me. Isn’t the whole country of Brazil like me? How can all those women keep lipstick on so successfully? I don’t get it. When I was writing down all my fears last month, I put down “department store makeup counters”—but I found out fast it was really only the lipstick part of the process that scares me. It is deceptive. It lies. It does not stay on your lips. It makes believe it is delicate, but smears very easily and completely outside of the lines of your lips, making you. look. crazy. Lipstick can go from an adornment to making you look like a contorted fun house clown lady pretty...
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