Hop on the Eyeliner Express

Today started really well. Well it started great from last night since I finished the last of my overdue course assignments and ate three quarters of a family sized bar of milk chocolate (hey, brain food you know?!)

3 socks is just right

• I woke up early (despite disrupted sleep spanning all of 5 hours -thanks again to that overdose of sugar and cocoa) 
• Cooked an awesome dinner that's going to be waiting for me when I get home tonight (I wanted to post pictures of my spicy tom yam style soup and stir fried cabbage but that would've made me late and my phone was charging anyway)
• The kids got ready for school fairly fuss free (maybe only a 4 on a scale of 1 - 10) and 3 yr old Mr. I, insisted on wearing 2 socks on 1 foot and 1 on the other...all 3 of different colours. I let him because it's fun and cute and I didn't have time to insist on him adhering to the norm. (Not that he has to at 3 yrs old anyway... When else in his life can he get away with this right?)
• We managed to take the train instead of a cab ($14 saved! Woot woot!) 

GIMME!!!

And as I put my make up on in the train and the twins have a book each (still trying to snatch the other's of course but that was settled reasonably without me having to yell), I thought to myself, "Wow! I wish I could take a picture of me before and after my 15 minute make up routine and explain to mothers rushing to work everywhere that you really don't have to care what other commuters think cos you win - getting the kids settled and happily on the way to work and using commute time for self-grooming and not looking like a mess when you get there."

Then I chanced upon this video. What could you be doing instead of self-grooming? and I felt really accomplished! This habit of putting my make up on during commutes to work has always saved me time and given me some awesome eye liner control skills. It's like I've got built-in suspension in my arm now - be it moving car or train, that eye liner is going on, baby! I do everything from the concealer under my eyes to the lipstick on prepped lipbalmed lips. The twins usually want some lip balm too so that's worked into the make up routine. 17 years I've been doing this so I'm an expert of sorts you could say... after a while, you realize that nobody's actually looking. I always fantasize about someone taking a video of me whilst I go from bleah to bam! and posting it on youtube or something and some beauty magazine will want to interview me for my super make up on a moving train skills... Yeah, right. The caption for that video would be something more like "Mother with twins struggles to get make up on whilst breaking up a toddler tussle"...so exciting.

eye liner express

Yes we don't really NEED make up but it's nice to feel like we can do something for ourselves for 15 minutes and not "lose productivity". 

So, like Tracey Spicer says in the video - just minimize it to what you can get by with and don't give a damn about the bullshit that society expects of you. 

And give yourself a pat on the back for being awesome yet again!! ;)