Getting Ready

Seriously this is pretty much what by bathroom looks like when I am getting ready (except I can olny wish I was the proud owner of all these awesome MAC eye shadows!).  My stuff is everywhere...and then some.

Let me start off with saying that I seriously am and always have been addicted to buying make-up...fer reals!  I love having options and trying new stuff, remembering the old stuff ie: clear masacara, flavored lip smackers, etc.  I love buying new make-up bags, brushes, tools, bla bla bla.

In high school I was over the moon about this place...

And seriously from high school, through college, and until I was married and on a budget...I lived at the M.A.C store...and here. Pretty much the two best palces to waste your day (and $$) on. EVER.  I mean the endless options are redic!  No wonder it would take me almost two hours to get ready back in the day.  First there was primer so my foundation lasted, then foundation, then powder (no one like a grease face!), then bronzer, then blush, then eye shadow primer, then eye shadow, then eye brow tint, then eye liner, then mascara, then lip liner/gloss, another layer of mascara...and then it was on to my hair.  Seriously how was I not exhausted after all of that!!

Now that I am Mrs. Mac...there is no more M.A.C. make-up (for now anyway *wink wink*).  Such a sad day.  I bought it up unitl my wedding and man oh man did I savor it after that!  All of it was liquid gold to me.  Well fast forward a year and half later (today to be specific) and I am getting ready for work thinking my oh my how times have changed.  It still takes me about an hour to get ready, but my make-up bag is now full of Maybelline, Cover Girl, and Remmel London.  Back then when I would get ready I was thinking ok what goes with my outfit, does my make-up look good?  Will this look good in the club?  Ya know, all those artificial worries you have when you are a single early twenties girl.  Today I found myslef talking with God and praying for various people and situations, praying for Mr. Mac, asking God for his guidence in our house situation, asking him for trust, thinking about what I was going to make for dinner, etc.  These things are my normal and this is how I get ready. 

I no longer have a cup filled with my drink of choice for the night...

Instead I have a cup filled with faith and I am no longer searching for the light...

I am no longer worried about a guy and being flirty...

Instead I have a hubby who loves me from here to eternity...

I no longer have a make-up bag full of M.A.C....

Instead I am a Mac!

I still think about the old make up and I laugh at how long I would take to get ready and the silly things I would obcess about...cuz that is funny stuff!  and I wouldn't reade those memories for the world..but isn't it fun to think about how far you have come in life? 

What do you think about when you are getting ready for the day?