Less work in the bathroom

If I had been a boy then I would always arrive on time everywhere. Because if I had been a boy then I wouldn't have to deal with annoying things like hair, makeup, shaving legs, painting nails and more of that. My morning ritual is always the blame for my possible late arrival and that's because you just have to do so incredibly much before you can properly leave the house. Washing hair in the shower, first shampoo then conditioner. Then some shower gel for soft skin and cleanser for your face and if necessary a razor over it. Then afterwards, body lotion all over, serum and day cream on the face, a product in the hair and deodorant under the arms. Getting dressed (that alone can be quite an episode) and then, the makeup. Foundation, powder, eyebrows, mascara, blush, pfff man it's a hassle.

We all think here at the editorial office, the only one who always walks into the office completely done is May and we all wonder how she manages to pull that off. There was a time when I thought eyelash extensions were a really good idea, because that would save me at least 10 minutes in the morning. I naturally have quite long eyelashes but putting them in mascara is quite a time-consuming task and with those fake eyelashes you don't have to do anything nada nopes because you have eyelashes to the heavens. It takes over an hour to get them all in, hair by hair, but once done you have a look that no Maybeline mascara can compete with.

After two weeks those things just fall out again and then the misery begins. You have to go back to your eyelash lady, lie down for another hour, and the last days before you get your new set of eyelashes you walk around with a very sad half-fallen eyelid with 4 fakes still on it and that's just not a good look. On top of that, I saw my real eyelashes getting worse week by week. Shorter, fewer, they just fell out. “That can't be” said the eyelash lady but still, it was really so. Logical too, you glue glue on your delicate eyelash hairs that is so strong that it stays on for 2 weeks, that can't be good either. So now I'm going through life again without fake eyelashes and it's going reasonably well, only without mascara I look like something that hasn't seen the sun in a year and actually I can't show myself in public.

Another pitfall, extensions. A friend of mine with long nice blonde hair decided to hang a few matte fake hair in because “otherwise I have such a thin ponytail and moreover I want to do as little as possible to my hair in the morning.” For that reason, she also has the fake eyelashes (“I don't care that my real eyelashes fall out and oh that inflamed eyelid yeah who cares”) but the problem with extensions is that those things actually require a lot of time. You have to brush them every morning and take good care of them and I don't know, it's a hassle. In addition, they need to be ‘lifted’ every so often and if you don't do that it can become quite a neglected dry state . My friend doesn't care about anything and calmly says she wants even more matte ones, and I just can't get it into her head that she should actually send those things out the door.

The thing is, it all seems very convenient, fake hair and fake eyelashes, but in reality it actually just takes more time. I'm going to immerse myself in BB and CC creams , which should give maximum effect with minimal effort. And maybe, just maybe, I'll someday walk into the editorial office as well-groomed and done as our May., If I had been a boy then I would always arrive on time everywhere. Because if I had been a boy then I wouldn't have to deal with annoying things like...