I’m one of those people who either leave the house with a full face of make up or no make up at all, regardless of which day you catch me though I’ll always have lip gloss on. And until recently, no one ever questioned me about my lip gloss habit. Everyone either just accepted it or didn’t pay enough attention to notice it. Then I found a friend who has a keen eye for detail and pretty soon she noticed that I carried at least three different glosses in my bag.

That’s when the questions started. She started asking about lip gloss flavours and colours and formulas. She questioned how healthy it was for me to always wear gloss and whether I ever wore regular lip ice or chapstick. She quizzed me about different brands and products. She basically forced me into explaining my lip gloss selection process and then hauled me off to the mall to demonstrate it. After three long hours, I left the store with three new glosses and all she bought was her regular mint scented lip ice.

Basically, she didn’t learn a single thing from me. Because I don’t have a process, like Vanessa Hudgens said “I just lip gloss. it doesn’t matter if it’s $2 or $30.” I like to feel the smooth, silky feeling of a good lip gloss and the scent of candy or cherries or plain old vanilla even just makes me smile. The best part of a good lip gloss is the taste.

Let’s face it most people won’t understand the attraction of an amazing lip gloss but for those of us who live by lip gloss we have developed an understanding that the right lip gloss flavour can be the deciding factor of life or death. For example a good lip gloss can decide whether you will have a social life on the day or whether you will be socially awkward and witness the death of your social life on the day.  Lip gloss may only be a pop of colour on your lips but it is also the pop of confidence you need to finally go after all those dreams you pretend to have forgotten.

So maybe I’m not addicted to the lip gloss life, maybe I’m just addicted to the confidence?

Or maybe I’m just making sure that if I die chasing my impossible dreams, I’ll be a good looking corpse?

What ever the reason is, I don’t see me giving up my lip gloss lifestyle any time soon.

So until next time,

Keep it glossy.

xoxo

Ra’eesah