Here's a picture of our Garden Show booth... it's kind of big, because otherwise you can't really see anything. That's my mom in the booth, and you can see our toads and gnomes on the tables, bird feeders on the tall poles, and bird houses and tree faces on the grid fixture at right.
I had my "makeover" thing with Kathryn the Mary Kay lady today. It wasn't exactly what I expected, but fun enough anyway. I was very up front with her when she asked me to do it, that I have ZERO money right now to buy anything. But she had to do her sales thing anyway. I'm sure $50 for the skin care stuff, $50 for the micro-dermabrasion stuff, $50 for the day/night creams, $50 for the eye treatment, $50 for the lip treatment, $50 for the hand treatment, and another $50 or $100 in eye, cheek, and lip colors is less than you could spend on high-end cosmetics. But she doesn't quite get that ZERO dollars to spend doesn't buy ONE of those things to start with, much less the whole package they want to get you into. However, it is her job to try and sell the products, so she had to try.
I will say that the products were very nice. I usually wear no makeup or just a little eye makeup and sometimes a little lipstick, my silver stuff. I think of foundation makeup as heavy and unpleasant. This really wasn't, though. All the various moisturizing creams and the makeups were very light, and not uncomfortable. Probably wouldn't take that much time to put on, either, after a few times. I wouldn't want to use ALL those different creams and treatments they suggest, but had I money to play with for cosmetics, I can see using a basic moisturizer, or the micro-dermabrasion thing the couple of times a week they suggest. The foundation, the darker one under my eyes where I get purple, and the lighter one over that and my whole face, smooths out the skin really nicely. I could see wearing that and then my eye/lip color when I go out somewhere. It doesn't bother me not to be able to buy and use it, but if I had unlimited money around, the stuff was very nice, nice enough that I would use some of it.
Actually rather funny, she shows you how to put the stuff on, and then has you look at yourself in a mirror at arm's length, around where other people would see you. Then she asks you how you look. My response, which she found "so cute!" was, "Cool, I look lightly Photoshopped!" Yes, it gave me an idea of how good cosmetics, properly applied, could do part of the work in a photograph that editing can also accomplish. So that was fun and interesting.
I thought I was going to get to check out the eyeshadow and lipstick colors today, but I guess that's what they do at a second makeover session, which I probably won't have time for before I go back to CA. And now that I know she really is going to keep on with her sales pitches, I don't know if I would really want to do it again anyway. She even started getting into all the career stuff, basically trying to recruit me to sell Mary Kay, like even that I could do the presentation today that she did for me, for my mom and sister, and then get credit for what they buy toward buying product for myself. Um... sure... except, I am hardly planning to become a Mary Kay consultant, and my mom and sister don't exactly have tons of spending money right now either, and while I can't say they wouldn't buy something if they liked it, they aren't going to be buying $400 cosmetic packages either. But, again, this is Kathryn's job, and she knows the setup of how the company works, and presents it well, so I can't fault her for that, even though I'm not really a potential customer for her.
Oh, yes. The "before and after" pictures. The before picture didn't happen. She just didn't do one. The "after" picture, she remembered as an afterthought. Her camera is a point-and-shoot digital, and the picture was being taken in her living room, so there wasn't anything to do with the photography stuff I'm learning. She was going to have me stand against a white door, but she has these nice ivory fabric window blinds, and I said, "this would make a nice background," and she agreed. So she took a couple of shots, and said she'll email me the photo. So when I get that, I can post it just for fun, as an addendum to this experience!
So, that was my Mary Kay makeover experience, and I did learn some stuff about cosmetics, and they have some nice things, even though I won't be buying or selling them. Unless, of course, all my SG friends start commenting that you all want to buy Mary Kay from me and make me tons of money, in which case, sure, no problem!
I had my "makeover" thing with Kathryn the Mary Kay lady today. It wasn't exactly what I expected, but fun enough anyway. I was very up front with her when she asked me to do it, that I have ZERO money right now to buy anything. But she had to do her sales thing anyway. I'm sure $50 for the skin care stuff, $50 for the micro-dermabrasion stuff, $50 for the day/night creams, $50 for the eye treatment, $50 for the lip treatment, $50 for the hand treatment, and another $50 or $100 in eye, cheek, and lip colors is less than you could spend on high-end cosmetics. But she doesn't quite get that ZERO dollars to spend doesn't buy ONE of those things to start with, much less the whole package they want to get you into. However, it is her job to try and sell the products, so she had to try.
I will say that the products were very nice. I usually wear no makeup or just a little eye makeup and sometimes a little lipstick, my silver stuff. I think of foundation makeup as heavy and unpleasant. This really wasn't, though. All the various moisturizing creams and the makeups were very light, and not uncomfortable. Probably wouldn't take that much time to put on, either, after a few times. I wouldn't want to use ALL those different creams and treatments they suggest, but had I money to play with for cosmetics, I can see using a basic moisturizer, or the micro-dermabrasion thing the couple of times a week they suggest. The foundation, the darker one under my eyes where I get purple, and the lighter one over that and my whole face, smooths out the skin really nicely. I could see wearing that and then my eye/lip color when I go out somewhere. It doesn't bother me not to be able to buy and use it, but if I had unlimited money around, the stuff was very nice, nice enough that I would use some of it.
Actually rather funny, she shows you how to put the stuff on, and then has you look at yourself in a mirror at arm's length, around where other people would see you. Then she asks you how you look. My response, which she found "so cute!" was, "Cool, I look lightly Photoshopped!" Yes, it gave me an idea of how good cosmetics, properly applied, could do part of the work in a photograph that editing can also accomplish. So that was fun and interesting.
I thought I was going to get to check out the eyeshadow and lipstick colors today, but I guess that's what they do at a second makeover session, which I probably won't have time for before I go back to CA. And now that I know she really is going to keep on with her sales pitches, I don't know if I would really want to do it again anyway. She even started getting into all the career stuff, basically trying to recruit me to sell Mary Kay, like even that I could do the presentation today that she did for me, for my mom and sister, and then get credit for what they buy toward buying product for myself. Um... sure... except, I am hardly planning to become a Mary Kay consultant, and my mom and sister don't exactly have tons of spending money right now either, and while I can't say they wouldn't buy something if they liked it, they aren't going to be buying $400 cosmetic packages either. But, again, this is Kathryn's job, and she knows the setup of how the company works, and presents it well, so I can't fault her for that, even though I'm not really a potential customer for her.
Oh, yes. The "before and after" pictures. The before picture didn't happen. She just didn't do one. The "after" picture, she remembered as an afterthought. Her camera is a point-and-shoot digital, and the picture was being taken in her living room, so there wasn't anything to do with the photography stuff I'm learning. She was going to have me stand against a white door, but she has these nice ivory fabric window blinds, and I said, "this would make a nice background," and she agreed. So she took a couple of shots, and said she'll email me the photo. So when I get that, I can post it just for fun, as an addendum to this experience!
So, that was my Mary Kay makeover experience, and I did learn some stuff about cosmetics, and they have some nice things, even though I won't be buying or selling them. Unless, of course, all my SG friends start commenting that you all want to buy Mary Kay from me and make me tons of money, in which case, sure, no problem!