i miss wearing lipstick

[orleans]

i liked the way it looked & i liked the way it felt
i'm in and out frequently -- store, work, taking doglet out numerous times a day/evening & late at night. i'm in a building with other residents who never wear a mask in the hallway. but i do, every time i come and go.

i've probably put lipstick on a handful of times since we first went into a lock down in march -- and those few times have only been when i come in with the doglet for the last time late at night.

even if i wore this mask the answer would be: i'm not wearing lipstick.

i realize it's trivial but it's just another fucking thing that's been taken away

[Danmel]

1. I'm with you on that

I've got a wardrobe of masks that match my clothing as a way of compensating for not wearing lipstick.

[samnsara]

4. me too! I even bought an LED mask that I can program messages on..

..hubby wore it to work on Halloween. Its flashed BOO!

[samnsara]

2. im loving masks for the opposite reason..i dont have to apply make up..

...just some mascara and eye liner and I look better than I ever did in half the time.

[happybird]

12. Same here

I don’t wear makeup, but have been going to the store without my dentures. It’s so nice!

[samnsara]

27. love it!!!!!

[malaise]

3. True but think about how much money we've saved

on lipstick and gloss this year.
What I miss most is my fortnightly pedicure. I hadn't gone for five weeks until my toenails actually tore my sneakers and I had to replace them. Will be going for one this week for sure.

[samnsara]

26. me too..i poked a hole in my UGG boots...:(....but for stuff non toenail related.......

...get a foot peel. They are mahvoloussss...

[malaise]

29. I have always pampered my feet

and they are in very good shape. Three times a week I have a foot massage for 40 minutes with a Homedic's foot massager and pre-pandemic I had a pedi every two weeks.

[benld74]

5. I really have a difficult time

Telling who are the people wearing masks. Example, neighbor across the street was walking into vote I was walking out. She calls out my name and says Hi! I did a doubletake and said Hi back. Didn’t dawn on me WHO it was until I got out to my car and thought. Then I felt bad.

[Talitha]

9. I hear ya - maybe we could wear masks that say "Hello, my name is..."

Or maybe a picture of our face on the mask?
Taken of course, as we wore our favorite shade of lipstick.

[Silver Gaia]

6. I miss it, too.

But I'm also glad sometimes that I don't feel the need to use cover-up or blusher, so it's a trade-off. However, I also have a large, multi-hued collection of lipsticks and glosses just sitting there most of the time. I do get to use them occasionally when I teach online with a videocam, but that's not much consolation. Overall, yeah, I miss it because it was always fun for me.

[pamdb]

7. lipstick

I KNOW!!!!!

I haven't had to buy any lipstick since last winter!!!!!!

And I miss smiling at people.

[malaise]

30. That I miss

big time

[IADEMO2004]

8. Mask hides my nose hair mustache. +++

No idea the last time I saw lipstick on a woman live in person. Too long is the only measure I have.

and hugs

and I don't have a nose hair mustache.

[luvs2sing]

10. Yes!

I truly miss wearing lipstick even though I didn’t wear it every day.

[Danmel]

11. I also need my brows waxed

I look like Albert Einstein and Brooke Shields' love child.
(With credit to the writers of the Princess Diaries for the description.)

[ProfessorGAC]

15. My Wife Bought The Sally Hansen Products

Hair up near where a guy's sidebruns would he and her eyebrows.
2 different products.
She was very happy with them.
Easy to use, she said.
She'd rather go get them waxed, but given COVID, she was pleased.

[malaise]

31. This

I've been using my emergency Nair

[zeusdogmom]

13. I wear lipstick even if no one is going to see it

Full make up, too. Nasty ass virus isn’t going to take that away from me. 😄

[Polly Hennessey]

16. Me, too.

Must have my lipstick. Have now become adept at kissing my mask. Don’t say anything, it is my mask and my 💄 lipstick.

[zeusdogmom]

34. Good for you!

[ornotna]

14. Get a clear mask

There are a couple of brands.

[JI7]

24. The problem is more how it would get smeared on the mask

which I assume would happen with this also.

[Rice4VP]

17. Wear it in the house

[Throck]

18. CDC 6' rule

🤔

[DetlefK]

19. I miss cinema. And restaurants. And bars.

There's something special about going out into town and having a nice meal in a restaurant. It's just not the same as home-cooked.

There's something special about going out into town and watching a movie on the big screen. It's just not the same when staying at home and watching it on a small screen.

There's something special about going to an underground-club, chatting up a goth-girl, getting shot down, dancing your brain out to punk-music and playing table-soccer with strangers until 2 am.

[Initech]

22. I miss going to concerts and sporting events.

I have been to just about every venue in the greater Los Angeles area multiple times to see my favorite bands. I've also been to venues in Vegas, Phoenix, Detroit, New York, DC, Denver... all over the country, really. And I was really looking forward to going to SoFi Stadium for the first time this year and seeing Motley Crue and Def Leppard.

I also miss going to games. I should be going to see my Ducks right now but the NHL season isn't even playing.

This pandemic has sucked more than anything that could possibly suck.

[zeusdogmom]

35. I miss making music with a group

No community band. 😪 No church choir. 😫 No handbells. 😪. Yes we have had a couple of choir rehearsals in the back parking lot of church and then recorded for the online worship recording. But it isn't the same. The weekly gatherings of fellow musicians - all wonderful people - is so special. And I miss it SO much.

We had in person worship on a very limited, restricted basis for about a month but that has been canceled again because of the horrible rapid increase in the number covid positive people in the area. Abundance of caution. Maybe again after the first of the year ....

We are all missing our former rhythms of life and yearn for the day when we can freely move about again, enjoying the activities we love.

Stay strong everyone. The next few weeks are going to be tough ones to get thru.

[GigiLeigh]

20. Me too!

I love lipstick. My favorite cosmetic. I haven't worn lipstick or really any make up since April. I know it's a small thing in the grand scheme of things but I just had to reply. It's something that has bugged me for months. LOL.

[Sneederbunk]

21. I've never worn lipstick but continue to wear aftershave.

[JI7]

23. I feel that way about lip gloss

[Sunsky]

25. Same here

I have forgotten a few times and have smudged my mask. Oh well, it felt good for a moment.

[jmowreader]

28. Uhh...ladies...

https://thesmilefacemask.com

They make masks with clear panels over the mouth area.

[panader0]

32. Well, I'm a guy, so no lipstick. But the masks mean I don't have to shave everyday,

not that I ever did. I once had an embarrassing moment (don't tell anyone) when I got about halfway to town
to shop and realized I hadn't put my dentures in. They are pretty new to me, and I just spaced it. Then I thought
what the hell, I'll have a mask on. So I went ahead.
I never did it again.

[brooklynite]

33. I'm confused....

Are you unhappy that you’re not wearing lipstick, or that nobody can see the lipstick you’re wearing?

[orleans]

42. i guess both. but mostly that i'm not wearing it

i liked the way it felt, kept my lips moist and unchapped, i have to talk a lot at work and my mouth gets dry. i suck on tic tacs (as i always have) but now i find myself licking my lips fairly often so i can run my mouth easier and faster and form the words quicker. sometimes dry lips get caught up on the front teeth

i don't wear any other make-up so my lipstick was the one exception. and i loved the color. i guess i feel i don't look that great and that lipstick helped me to look just a little bit better/nicer. (more put-together, as my mom used to say)

a couple people up thread suggested those see-thru plastic masks, but i imagine a tactical error happening, and lipstick smearing on the mask where everyone could see it! omg!

and the fact is i miss a lot of things. i know we all do--things far more important than stupid lipstick. but even that one simple thing has been taken out of my life for now.

anyway...

[ginny skinny]

36. Go a little bolder on the eye makeup!

I've noticed some of the younger gals around here wearing fake eyelashes and going all in on the eyebrows. Not sure if that's because they are playing up the one aspect of the face that is visible when wearing a mask or if that's been a thing for a while and I'm just noticing now.

[lindysalsagal]

37. I miss wearing shoes. And pants.

Slippers and sweats...slippers and sweats....

[Hortensis]

38. Me too. And blush. I feel washed out behind my mask.

[TeamPooka]

39. I miss pants

Not really

[Renew Deal]

40. You can still wear it.

And having a routine that resembles normalcy is important.

[Raine]

41. I miss not having a place to go where I can dress nice and look nice.

I hate wearing a mask 😷 so much. I feel like I can't breath, can't be natural with people, can't even think clearly.