Trying something new

After being inspired by Trader Joe's marketing campaign to eat healthy (which I already do) and try something new, I am going to now include that as a modification of my project number one.  While watching less TV I will be trying new things.

Today my new thing is wearing no makeup to work.  If you would have told me even one week ago that I would be doing this, I would have first passed out from the audacity of that suggestion, and then I would have laughed in your face and said "No way!  Me not wear makeup before stepping out of the house?  Never!"  Much to my mother's chagrin, I started wearing makeup the second I turned fourteen and I haven't stopped since.  I know I "don't need to wear makeup" (blah, blah, blah) but I like to!  I like the whole artistic process of it. 

However, for the past several days, I have developed a terrible allergic reaction to something -- perhaps the massive amounts of dust and pollen that have been swirled into the dry air lately -- and it has a rash of some kind around my eyes.  It's not pink-eye, because my eye ball isn't red.  It's just the skin around my eyes, mostly my right eye.  It was red, itchy, and swollen all weekend, and today it's just red.  The swelling has gone down and it's not as itchy.  But I still can't wear makeup!  I tried when I went to a party on Saturday night, and it just made the itchiness and swelling worse.  Not only am I bare-faced, but the redness around my eyes makes me look absolutely terrifying! 

I was absolutely dying of embarrassment at the thought of going to work in this condition, so I found a pair of "fashion glasses," which are just fake spectacles with pink rims, and am wearing them to somewhat disguise my poor allergy-ridden eyes.  Everyone thinks I wear glasses now, and one friend thought I was going to a 70's theme party.  I'm just playing it off as a bold new fashion statement.  In all reality, I think I could probably do without wearing makeup so much, just without the red puffy eyes, please.