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["Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>]

On 7/13/06, Viking <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Anyway, Couric said that 'she felt the pain of the girls in the
> audience-how in the world do you manage
> hair and makeup in this heat?'


Many women of Charleston SC are all dolled up in 99 degree heat with
humidity to match.  Lived there for five years and never fit in because I
don't polish my fingernails & toes and even back then wore little makeup
(pencil eye liner, mascara and lipstick).  Fast forward to my Floyd years--I
still wear lipstick (a muted shade close to my own lip color) and come by
that honestly from my Grandma (a "beautician").  I buy Aveda or Burt's Bees
brands which are natural (no  petroleum) and use recycled containers and/or
cardboard. But that's it. If I have an occasion to go to (my husband's gig
if in a nice place or when we're on a date) I may put on eye pencil liner,
but that and my lipstick is the extent of my getting made up.  It was a
progression over the last dozen years.  Every year I saw less reason to wear
it.  I didn't understand why scores of women look practically unrecognizable
to their S.O. when they wake up in the morning.

In another life (20 years ago?) I was a BeautiControl Image Consultant.  If
they could see me now....

I don't use any kind of hair products other than shampoo


Same here.  Got my hair cut recently, was all one length and longish and had
been that way for a while.  I wanted a change.  The style person wanted me
to have mousse (sp?) and gel and spray and I declined it all.  From her
expression, even in Floyd that is not the norm.

I would like to sew my own bags and avoid the whole bag thing altogether. I
> think I would use old jeans since denim is strong and old jeans are pretty
> much in abundant supply around here. Maybe this winter,
> I'll search for a pattern for a flat bottom grocery type bag with handles.


Another homestead business is born.

Lisa