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This weeks article in
@perthnow about my beauty sin & what happened! #makeup #beauty xxo check it out at
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@perthnow columnist Heidi Anderson learnt a lesson about make-up the hard way. Read her tale, heed her warning
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Heidi Anderson: Hard lesson learnt about wearing old make-up, no thanks to mum
I can’t believe it took an eye infection to find this out.
This column is for the ladies today — men, by all means, if you wear makeup I’m not discriminating against you.
I just feel it’s better aimed at the ladies, as most of us wear makeup every day.
I need to tell you something that no one had ever told me until recently. I guess you could look upon this as a bit of a Community Service Announcement.
On many occasions I have taken advice and been unable to offer anything in return. Well my time has finally come to help you, so here goes.
Hopefully not too many of you know this, otherwise this entire column has been a waste of time for me and for you.
But I figured in 30 years if I’d never heard of this, then many of you probably haven’t either.
I’m really building this up aren’t I? OK, here goes.
If you have eye make-up — as in mascara — in your drawers or a make-up bag at home, you need to throw it in the bin if it’s older than 3 months!
I can hear you asking all the same questions that I did: “What? Huh? Why? Seriously?”
But if you want to avoid pus, swelling, eye patches and antibiotics, I suggest you give your make-up bag one hell of a clean out.
How do I know this you ask? Well, I have experienced it first-hand.
Yep — the pus, the swelling and the antibiotics. OK, so the eye patch might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I felt like I needed one.
I just chose not to leave the house as I could barely see out of my left eye — an eye patch would’ve been much more attractive for me and for you.
How did this happen I hear you ask?
Well, I was back in my home town of Bathurst visiting my 94-year-old Grandma recently, when I realised I’d forgotten my mascara — a vital part of any girl’s make-up bag.
I rarely ever leave the house without mascara, as I have very fair eye lashes and whenever people see me without make-up, they ask if I’m feeling OK. So, I leave my mascara free days for the gym or for the couch, where no one will see me.
I couldn’t go a week without it — who knows who I’d run into while I was home, and I didn’t want to waste 20-30 bucks on a decent mascara, when I had loads back in Perth.
So I rummaged through my old drawers at my parents place when I came across this little bottle of mascara that my Nan had given me four or five years ago.
“You bloody ripper! This will save me forking out,” I thought to myself.
So I unscrewed the bottle and proceeded to put my face on. The mascara looked good and it didn’t smell off, so I was happy.
When I woke up the next morning, I had one panda eye and one big, fat, swollen, red pussy eye.
I had a few “red cordials” the night before, slept in my make-up — which is another beauty sin — and woke up looking like I’d been in a bar fight.
I waited a few days and the swelling didn’t go down. So, I had to run along to the doctor, who gave me some antibiotics as my whole eye had been infected by this OLD mascara.
This is when I found out that the 4-5 year old mascara had been the cause of the infection and you MUST throw out any mascara that’s older than 3 months.
I couldn’t believe it — in my 30 years of existence, I’d never heard anything like it. Still not really believing her, I asked my Mum — she knew also.
Why hadn’t she ever told me this? Isn’t that part of her motherly duty? Still not believing them, I decided to google it — yep, it’s true.
They say you should dispose of your mascara after 3 months, because most liquid cosmetics are susceptible to bacterial growth at a much higher rate than other cosmetics.
Within several weeks, a range of bacteria are most likely forming in the tube, so it’s always a good idea to replace your mascara often.
For those of you that didn’t know, tell your Mum she’s let you down in her motherly duties, and you can thank me later.
You can hear Heidi weekday mornings from 6am on 92.9FM with Heidi, Will & Woody at 92.9
http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle
i do think it was tobacco now i have thought about it more. if he and Sam (i think that's his name)are FIFO'S, it's possible they smoke rollies and transfer the contents into a sealed bag for freshness. they might even cut it up and dry it out. i can believe that quite easily
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