I really dislike shopping for cosmetics. When Leah adds an item of makeup to my shopping list, it’s pretty much assured that I’m going to screw it up somehow. When I go shopping, I’m used to buying items with simple, typically one- or two-word identifiers: “Soap;” “Bread;” “Extension Cord;” “Lightbulb.” So when I see a detailed description of some fancy eyeliner or mascara or shampoo, my eyes begin to glaze over.<\/p>\n
My latest blunder involved a tube of Maybelline Extra Black “Thick & Healthy” mascara. I got everything right but the “waterproof” part, so the tube is just sitting at home, still in its packaging. In my defense, the tube I bought was hanging with about 40 other tubes that looked exactly the same save for a couple words differentiating one product from another. And those words were in smaller type. I swear.<\/p>\n
I was looking at this sad, neglected package of mascara when I was at home today at noon. There’s an asterisk after the “Thick & Healthy” part of the name. I looked around for the note and found it at the bottom of the cardboard backing: “* Healthy-looking” That’s so <\/em>like makeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I really dislike shopping for cosmetics. When Leah adds an item of makeup to my shopping list, it’s pretty much assured that I’m going to screw it up somehow. When I go shopping, I’m used to buying items with simple, typically one- or two-word identifiers: “Soap;” “Bread;” “Extension Cord;” “Lightbulb.” So when I see a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-3i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}