I used to hang out in the library and read old Co-Ed and American Girl magazines (this is the original American Girl from the 1970's, and had nothing to do with the dolls that are popular in recent years!) They were for a long time just wish books for me, as the nuns who taught in my school had strict policies for the girls: makeup for the upper grades only, limited to blue or pink shadow, pink blush, and pink lip gloss; had any non-Caucasian girls attended, I think the old nuns would have gotten their collective panties in a bunch over what to do with the rule! In high school (finally sprung and allowed to go to public school) I learned from my classmates how to apply liner (back then we held a Maybelline brow-and-liner pencil to a flame before lining. It was then the cheapest and most readily available.) From a teenage drag queen I learned to put on lipstick, blot, dust with powder, then lipstick and blot again to make the color really last. This was long before really long-wear formulas, and it still feels better on my lips than current products like Covergirl Outlast. From my mother came a lesson learned long after she was gone: that sometimes all you need is mascara, powder and a Kickass Red lipstick to go boldly forward.
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