Girl Talk Thursday is Mommy Melee‘s weekly event, and I really love the thought, so here it comes: my thoughts on the topic of “What’s your makeup regimen?”

Um, the vast majority of the time, I’m totally bare-faced.  But I’m really trying to make the effort to take time for myself and to look decent when I step out of the house, which includes brushing my hair (gasp!) and putting on make-up (double gasp!)

I start with a Dove moisturizer.  I LOVE DOVE.  I use CoverGirl TruBlend foundation because it’s lovely and light feeling (also, cheap), although I’m not sure it actually matches my skin tone but hey, what the hell, at least I’m putting on make-up.  Then, if I can find my powder, I allllways powder because I have ultra shiny skin and that’s just not attractive.  I skip the eyeliner unless it’s an ultra-special occassion, although last week I found my white eyeliner in the glove compartment of the car which is just lovely dabbed at the inner corner of your eyes to make them pop, so I may go back to using that.

For eyeshadow, I generally just use a shimmery brown to brighten the blue of my eyes, although I have silver, white, blue, russet, purple, etc.   I don’t tend to play with multiple colours on the different areas of my eyelid (unless I really want to impress someone) because, you know, I have a BABY who is most likely demanding my attention and if she isn’t, then my husband is tapping his foot waiting for me to get ready.

Lipstick I almost always skip because I don’t have a good colour that I like.  I have wanted a vixen-esque, movie star bright red forever, but I’ve never taken the time to experiment with them.  Chapstick and lip gloss is the name of the game, although a friend turned me on to that Sally Hansen lipgloss with pepper in it that’s supposed to make your lips a little more swollen and luscious — so far the only thing I’ve found it to be good for is making Chris cringe and howl, “What the fuck is on your lips?” after I kiss him.

Mascara, however, is a Must-Have.  If I have time for nothing else, I have time for mascara.  It makes such a difference — both physically and mentally — I feel all hot & sexy if I have mascara on!  I go for the brown-black stuff, though, since I’ve got a  fair/ashen complexion.