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NEVER MESS WITH AN AESTHETICIAN

We gave a kooky Christmas present to our three older girls: a makeup lesson with a licensed aesthetician. She has opened her own shop and has a line of excellent makeup private-label manufactured for her out of New York.

She was very skilled and impressive as she discussed with each young woman her particular skin-care needs and went over how to apply the various potions and powders.

We joked that we had taken ‘’before’’ pictures of the gorillas at the zoo, and would compare them with ‘’after’’ pictures of the girls in their beautiful new ‘’looks.’’

I learned a lot, too. Nooooo, you don’t start eye shadow in the corner above your eye and work out; that puts the boldest color on the inside, which, in terms of aesthetics, is bass-ackwards.

Noooo, unless you want to look like Queen Nefertiti, you don’t put on eyeliner with a pencil and form a line; you ‘’tap’’ dark powder with a tiny, angled brush along the base of your lashes.

I have developed a little rosacea, a red discoloration, on my cheek, compliments of my Irish heritage. She applied a very pleasant ‘’peel,’’ or cleanser, advised me on makeup cover-ups, and pointed out that alcohol and spicy foods will make the reddish color more noticeable. Dang!

I decided she was the most knowledgeable person in the world about all kinds of beauty problems. So I asked her, ‘’What can you do about chapped lips?’’

Maybe she was getting tired of all my questions. She replied breezily, ‘’Chapstick!’’

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Prayer request: A longtime nurse, the mother of our aesthetician friend, has cancer, and it has spread into her hip. She’s on a new form of chemo and her family is surrounding her with encouragement and love. Father, we lift up each and every time Your faithful servant has comforted a patient and made them feel better. We ask the same blessing for her, in Jesus’ Name. (Romans 6:22)