- Re: Boston Globe Article on Makeup Addiction
- Posted by ahmward
"Puggysgirl" <puggysgirl@aol.com> wrote in message
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There's also an article on makeup addiction in the August Allure.
Audrey
- Posted by Maladicta1
How do they define makeup addiction? One who purchases more than she can use?
One who wears it 24 hours a day?
One who gets into debt because she can't stop buying makeup she can't afford?
One who touches up her face several times an hour?
- Posted by ahmward
"Maladicta1" <maladicta1@aol.com> wrote in message
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"Mad for Makeup" an essay by Daphne Merkin on page 120 of the August Allure
This essay is quite long and the author talks about many aspects of makeup
addiction. "For some
people, lip gloss is a talisman, a cosmetics counter is a shrine, and a
makeup artist is a demigod."
She mentions the person who seeks the perfect product and it is not even
using it but seeing it in the
package, knowing you have it and it's untouched" that makes it worth
seeking. Another comment
from the article is "My friend has shades of brown eye shadows so calibrated
they might have induced
Picasso to a brown period.
I just bought the BB nude palette and I have a palette of Stila browns not
to mention my other browns.
She could have been talking about me.
This article brings up many ways that makeup is an addiction and is a great
read that should prompt a
good on topic discussion.
Audrey
- Posted by Jpoijhgwedfg M. Gtgiokjhderfg Jr.
Mal asked:
One who checks into the Tammy Fay Clinic in Charlotte, NC.
-Joe in SoFla
I don't care, and you can't make me.
- Posted by Maladicta1
Or one who needs to and doesn't. I think some of these represent compulsive
shopping problems while others speak to a facial dysmorphic disorder. I can't
see how buying three Maybelling Pur blushes at a close-out place is comparable
to going on a bender and passing out. It bothers me that the word addiction is
thrown around so casually.
- Posted by ahmward
"Maladicta1" <maladicta1@aol.com> wrote in message
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I purchased it with
coupons for $2 a tube. I always define addiction as being out of control.
It would be buying a slew
of products just because they were hard to find or a good buy but which I
never intended to use.
Obviously it would also mean spending beyond what I good afford.
Audrey
