Friday, October 06, 2006
Listen. I'm not a girly girl. I own one lipstick. It's really only tint, in a tube like chapstick, bought in the health food market.
BUT. This fingernail polish? Looks like a manicure, huh? No brush marks, no globs of polish on my skin, no unattractive gooping at the cuticle line.
Guess what? Took me 6 minutes to apply, while I was reading email and having my morning diet coke. My secret? Well, I have to tell you a story.
My sister called me a couple of months ago and it went like this:
Her: Hi! Guess who's an Avon Lady?
Me: Who?
Her: Me!
Me: No really, who?
Her: Me!
Me: Ha HA HA HA!
This led to the ritual exchange of catalogs. Which led to me remembering how scanky all the Avon perfumes used to smell in the 1970's. And to my ongoing lack of ability to understand why people SWEAR by Skin So Soft.
And to the discover of (drumroll please) Instant Fingernail Polish!! I shit you not.
I had to try it. I have great nails, but I never wear polish because I am genetically incapable of applying it. I get about three nails in when I screw one up bad. I try to fix it but, like what happens in relationships, it just goes from bad to worse. So I go au natural.
Until now. I ordered 20 sets of these things (at my sister's super duper Avon Lady discount price) and am in the process of giving it to all my friends. It wears like regular polish, but better - stays shiny til you take it off. I've lasted 16 days in one color so far. I've had girlfriends call me and truly shriek at me over the phone: THIS IS AWESOME I NEED MORE, they say.
So yeah I'm all excited about this stuff. Last time I was this excited about a girly thing was when I was 13 and found out that regardless of what my mother had told me, you DO NOT have to be married to use tampons instead of pads.
Don't have an Avon Lady? Get one. Apparently they're everywhere.
# posted by Carol : 12:05 AM
