For the last 5 years since I had Tee, I was a Stay-At-Home-Mom without help. And for that, I was busy as hell and couldn’t be bothered with how I looked. Shit. When you have your toddler’s head stuck in a toilet bowl, your kettle whistling, your soup overflowing and the phone ringing, trust me, lipstick is the farthest thing from your mind.

So for five entire years, I have gone through my day to day life with Tee, SANS make up. There may have been the odd function here and there and believe me, I can probably count them with one hand, that I made a remote effort to do some face painting, but other than that, I have been au naturel. I don’t even comb my hair preferring to keep it up all the time as the weather is just too hot.

But lately, a friend of mine and I discussed the prospects of stay-at-home-Moms looking good. We look around us and many Moms are looking great. Perhaps it is the damn school we hang out at, but these Moms, stay-at-home or not, they come picking their kids up with perfume, earings, necklaces, perfect skin, coiffed hair, high heels, beautiful clothes……and we…….we just look like maids.

Really.

So we did a little experiment and timed ourselves to see just how much effort it would take to make ourselves look more presentable. You know, with a little make-up, neat hair and some decent clothes, not the pasar malam ripped T-shirt. We promised ourselves that we’d give it a go for at least a week. And what do you know? It really didn’t take too much effort once we got the hang of it!

Besides, it gave me loads more confidence. I no longer have to hide every time I see anyone important (you know, like the Prime Minister). I smile confidently whenever someone wants to take a picture of me. And generally, I am walking taller. So my advise to you stay-at-home-Moms is, put on some make up everyday! Even if it is just a little bit of lipstick….whatever it may be to accentuate your features. Whatever it is that makes you feel more confident, whether it be drawing your eyebrows, or applying some mascara or just dashing on some face powder. It is worth it.

I just hope I won’t be needing any adult acne treatment anytime soon……

*sigh*

So what do you think? With or without make-up? I asked the Hubs what he thought after my week of applying make up. His answer?

“Well, you no longer look like a maid!”

Oh, and if you look at the picture above carefully, you’ll notice that the reflection on the window is not really the reflection of me. So what could it be? I keep looking and looking and I still can’t work out why there isn’t a reflection of me. *twilight zone music*

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