What Are Your Fondest Beauty Memories? - Makeup and Beauty Blog
I bet at that place's a place that'due south very special to you lot and was a very special place to you as a kid. For me, that place is my grandmother'due south business firm in Moriah, NY, in the Adirondacks on Lake Champlain. I spent and so much time there every bit a child (considering she lives five minutes down the road from the house I grew up in), and it has e'er been a coming together place of sorts for my female parent's side of the family. Our whole grouping flocks there.
Even as adults, my aunts and uncles and cousins all meet at her house when we come home to visit, and at 91, my grandmother certainly enjoys the company.
Probably the best thing well-nigh being at my grandmother'southward business firm growing upward with a bunch of cousins who were all older than me was getting to play with their makeup! My cousins lived in the surrounding towns but were even so pretty far away, and I have singled-out memories of existence at the dining room table, poking through their makeup numberless (whether they wanted me to or not!) on the weekends and holidays we would spend at my grandmother's house.
Let me explain.
All of my cousins are significantly older than I am because my female parent was the youngest of my grandmother'south children, and she had my mom at 36 when my grandmother already had three kids (nigh) in their teens.
So being much younger than everyone else, my mom also had her kids much later on than her siblings did, and so my eldest cousin is in his late forties now, and I'thousand the infant of my cousins at 25. The only ones younger than me now are the great grandkids, the oldest of whom at 13 is just now starting to wear makeup (which makes me feel one-time).
Thankfully my older cousins happily put up with me and all of my pestering when I was younger, which I honey them for because many teenagers don't have much use for the little ones at family unit gatherings (I know I don't at times). They all treated me more than like a sibling than a cousin.
Last weekend I got to reconnect with a lot of my family I hadn't seen in a while, and one of my cousins even continued to astonish and inspire my beauty habits by bringing me a TON of her collection to become through and peruse at my leisure!
I simply took a few things (considering, at this point, I really don't demand more beauty products), simply I appreciated the idea.
And the products I didn't have went to my other cousins' children (xiii, 11, and 5)! So seeing them playing with makeup and beauty products that an older member of the family brought definitely made me relive a lot of fond memories.
For fun sometimes I like to say that I learned most of what I know from the cyberspace (and a big clamper of it, I have), just I really did learn a lot most life from sitting at my grandmother'southward dining room table and from riding in cars with my sis and cousins.
What are your fondest beauty memories?
Oh, and have you e'er heard of that aloe gel? It's totally new to me, just I can't wait to try it!
Marcella Yakalis
Marcella Yakalis is a freelance writer living and working in Brooklyn, New York, with 2 cats, one ophidian, and one very patient boyfriend. She writes about family, relationships, and oppressive retail culture. She can also exist found on Twitter and Instagram.
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