About six months ago, I started having back problems. I say started, but I've had back trouble ever since an over-caffeinated, attention impaired teenage boy decided he was going to play Andy Green in his mom's 'bitchin' white minivan but instead of breaking the world land speed record he just broke my tiny green Festiva. The Festiva was a total write-off and I spent the next 6 months going to physio.
Because of that, I was used to having about one week or so every year where my back would go out and I'd have a marathon telly watching session while it recovered. But 6 months ago, my back went and it didn't get better. In fact it, just got worse and worse.
After many, many visits to my GP, four fruitless sessions with a chiropractor, and a battery of scans and poking, it appears I've a bulging disc. Most days, I'm in too much pain to do more than take my pain meds and sit surfing the web. Those are the good days. The bad days, I can't even sit up, much less walk.
As you might imagine, this gets really boring after the third or fourth day. And I'm going into month 7. This is especially difficult for me as I've always been really active. Running at least 3 times a week is the way I've kept myself semi - sane. And now I have trouble walking to the toilet. Throw in the fact that this back thing makes it impossible for me to do both of my main creative outlets, and you get one very pent up, antsy person.
Which leads me finally to my, point. I've started doing my makeup almost every day as a way to keep from falling too far down the depression rabbit hole. I never really cared about the whole beauty thing before all this. I had maybe three coordinating eye shadows and one eye liner that I used for nights out. Now that I've so much time on my hands with nothing else to do, I've discovered there's this whole other world where there is actually a good reason to have sixteen different eye shadows in just-barely- different shades of brown.
I'm not amazing at makeup yet. I was bloody horrible when I started and I have to pictures to prove it. It keeps me occupied and I've found that I actually enjoy it, especially when I do well.
I know there are already 5 million beauty bloggers, but I'm going to start documenting my experiences with makeup anyway. I'll be taking loads of pictures, including the ones that show how massively I fail. I'll be talking about products I love and loathe, along with techniques I'm learning. If I feel particularly brave, I may even do some videos.
Please check me out at Blue-hairedbeauty.com
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