Soap Box

If I have one more friend call me asking me would I sign up to sell multi-level marketing make up I think I might go nuts. I mean for cryin’ out loud. I sold Mary Kay for one week eleven years ago, when I had just turned twenty and was as naïve as a pink Cadillac and I’ll never forget going to Arkansas to visit my grandparents with my pink totes telling my poor family how I was going to make them feel and look so much younger! My grandpa Carl was losing his mind, literally, he had middle stage Alzheimer’s and Mom and I had the wild notion that we should get Grandpa to do the #3 mask, because he really had some dry skin and needed to moisturize. When it got all dry and crackly, he said “Is it time to take this da__ thing off?” Mom said, “No dad you have to count backwards from 10, real slow like, and when you get to down to zero it will be time.” So we all started counting with him in that slow Arkansas drawl, “Tin, Nan, Ate, Sevin, Six, Fav, Fouer, Tharee, Twoo, Woin.” And there goes my Grandpa whooshing away with his green mud mask and his white ceramic bowl of lukewarm water asking my mom to get that washcloth and get the rest of it off of him. I was convinced I was going to be a millionaire within a matter of weeks, for about three hours, then reality set in that I was going to have to sell enough make up to lease a new car and that was just entirely too much make up for me. So I got burned out in about eight days and put up my pink tote bags for good. Those red-coated, pin wearin’ happy people were getting on my nerves and I never did like their foundation…it’s just too grandma. Now their concealer is GREAT. Really covers up those under eye circles. But I’m just not the Avon, Mary Kay type. Now they say Arbonne is all natural, and it is, and their moisturizer is fabulous because I have dry skin and it’s the best thing I’ve found for dry skin. There are no preservatives, it was made in the Swiss Alps, or Switzerland, or was it Sweden? Oh anyways over there with the clean air people across the ocean. Their cleanser is great, especially the one that has the little granuales in it, which one is that called? But don’t use the clear cleanser because that one has sodium lauryth sulfate in it and that’s what they use to strip garage floors, it really causes drying. Anyways, I haven’t tried their make up but their skin care really is probably the best I have found bar none to the malls. And they really expose how the mall skin care is all marketing and not based on good, quality ingredients. I could get on my soapbox, no pun intended, about all the additives to our stuff we put on our skin and in our bodies in this country. I mean no wonder we’re all sick. Anyways, if you want to buy some fabulous skin care I have three wonderful friends who all sell it and I will be glad to give you their numbers. In the meantime, may you all have a wonderful skin day and be sure to wash your face tonight before you go to bed.