Lip service

I am not what you would call a girly girl. In fact, while I like to look cute once in a while. Usually it's more of a passing fancy. The hair, however, is something, I do enjoy splurging on. Added bonus that Meghan (at Le Spa on McLaren) completely and totally rocks. Double extra bonus she's a friend. She manages to indulge my fancy for magenta and copper streaks. It's like I'm a four year old who got creative with her mom's highlighters. "Look ma! Pink hair."

She makes me relax. "Nat, you are going to read smut while you are here. Let me get you a glass of wine."
I would complain because you know... wine is so hard to take. (ahem)
(Assessment form this issue of Vogue -- evidently shoes fit for taking a step or two in are clearly out of style. Which is too bad, since I need to walk at work. If only to get coffee. Then to pee.)

Then I get weird ideas:
"Meghan, how would I do this to my hair?" (She mocked horror, and told me that in no uncertain terms what she'd do to me if I went out like that in public.)

On Thursday though, she wanted to boost my spirits.
"Are you a germaphobe?" she asked.
"Depends." I reckon this is the right answer to this question.
"Here try this."
"What is it?"
"Just try it."
"Looks like lip gloss."
"It's a lip plumper. Cost $41 a tube. I tried it once. It's got collagen in it. Last 24 hours."
"So I can look like a trout? No way..... "
"Come on, I was saving it for you. I'm the only one who's used it. It'll be fun." She said in that impish way that makes me smile when she is suggesting something a bit... well... out there. Meghan's not a girly girl either.

Gingerly I applied to $41 lip gloss, to my lips. And if I was a good blogger, you'd get photos not only of the hair (not big difference) and of the lips. But I suck. Fact is, the plumper is the weirdest feeling. You know when you have dental surgery and your face starts to thaw. That stage where it's tingly and it doesn't quite hurt -- but it's not totally good. That's how it felt.

Looks wise, it seem to bring out my subtle upper lip. But just enough to make me want to blow raspberries. Did it look better? I don't know. I mean my lips were all shiny. (I hate that.) It smellled rather yummy. And well, the lipstick really isn't my thing, I do Blistex when my lips get dry. Still, I took them out for a test drive I had to try things -- like drinking wine. (Yup, definitely like the dentist -- less drool no dribbles.) Very odd. I look for people to kiss, but well, I'm not that kind of girl... anymore (and the only men there were gay - Meghan confirmed.)

Still it made me wonder, as I poke my lower lip, then my upper lip and made "b" sounds. People actually get this crap injected into their lips. Meghan laughed as she said it made our lips "look younger". We'd been meaning to have a talk about the fact that well while she is 27 and I'm 38 -- our lips make us look like we're ... umm.... what are my lips supposed to look like? Meg Ryan? Melanie Griffith... they don't look younger - they just look like they've had a lot of work done.

Thing is I'm going to get old. I see the wrinkles. Maybe it's easier because I was never totally hung up on my looks but ... this ... well... this just seems silly. Certainly fun over wine and a haircut -- but I'd never leave home like that.

P.S: Apologies for this piss poor post. I'm blaming muscle relaxants.

Comments

[XUP]

Eeewwww --- lip plumper --- You can get the same effect if you gently loofah your lips in the shower and then smear some shiny stuff on them. It doesn't last 24 hours, but then you also won't be eating whatever numbing toxins you've put on your lips. I read something once about how much lipstick the average woman eats in a year. It was gross -- I mean, where do you think all that lipstick goes you put on your lips?

[sizzle]

I tried one of those lip glosses with plumper before and it made my lips feel so weird I threw it away. I, for one, do not want Meg Ryan lips (what has she DONE!? to them!?).

[Mayberry Magpie]

There are a few things I'd like to pump up -- chiefly my sinking tits and ass -- but I couldn't care less about the lips.

Like you, though, nothing lifts the spirits like a trip to the salon and a new color. Gotta love that stuff in a bottle.

[Mimi]

I may have to go see Meghan for an intervention. My hair USUALLY looks like that! (I did it _extra_ dandelion to show my daughter, who was going to a 70s party, what it really looks like to have Diana Ross-styled hair. Her look of horror still brings smiles to my flaccid lips.)

[Hilly]

I accidentally bought a lip gloss that has plumper in it! The thing is that I have really full lips already so I had to go a whole day looking like a soap opera actress, haha!

[Dagny]

Now I see that I am going to have to read the tubes carefully. I already have full lips.

Growing up, I hated my mouth. Then suddenly celebrities were getting injections to have a mouth like mine. (One person likened my smile to Julia Roberts'. Yeah. I have loads of mouth.)

But I'm thinking that if you were willing to give the plumper a try, then you could try out those products that fill in lines for the rest of us. The crow's feet? The smile lines? I can live with those. I want to get rid of the one on my forehead. Then again I could just wear bangs all the time.

And tell Meghan that she could have styled your hair that way temporarily. (OK. Yes, I know that style has tons of product in it more than likely. But still...) An old hairdresser of mine would play with my hair and create styles that she knew I hated. Then she would restyle my hair the way that I liked.

[gkgirl]

heehee...
this post made me giggle
and try to imagine
what that must feel like
{the lips}
{and to have a hair dresser that you
totally trust...i'm lacking in that department}

and no apologies needed for this post,
i enjoyed it.
:O)

[alison]

I think that full plump effect can be achieved with the application of a two by four at medium velocity, but I'm not going to do that either.

I do, however, have a lip exfoliating masque from Mary Kay, that I got for my birthday, and it really does make my lips feel soft when they get all dry in the winter. I wouldn't have bought it for myself, but it's pretty cool.

Poor Meg, she kinda looks like Jack Nicholson's Joker now.

[MichelleB]

I don't use a lip plumper though I've thought about it to look younger. When me and my hubby went to the opera the other night and I wore this chic outfit and my gorgeous diamond necklace my hubby bought me from www.idonowidont.com and I thought I looked like a movie star. I

don't think lip plumping balm would look that good, I just had some light make up on and I looked great as I was!

[Kevin Spencer]

Now from a bloke's point of view I just want to point out that Meg Ryan & Melanie Griffith's lips look AWFUL. Yuck. Run, run for the hills.

[Selma]

I always wondered if those lip plumpers worked. It sounds like a weird, unsettling feeling. I can imagine not being able to speak clearly if my lips were all puffed up and as I veer in and out of an articulate state anyway, it might not be such a good idea. I can just imagine people pointing at me in shops, saying behind their hands: 'Look at that drunk woman with the big lips.' Not pretty. LOL.