It’s been a while since I blogged about the commuter handbag and I’m pleased to say I’ve settled into a comfortable pattern of rushing for the train in the morning and slowly climbing the hill back home in the evening. What I haven’t managed quite so well is getting out of bed in time to apply the warpaint before heading into the corporate jungle so I’ve had to adapt to moisturising and making up on the train.
I’m lucky because I’m at the end of the line so I get a seat in the morning and, quite often, I don’t have anyone beside me. The moisturizer technique has been perfected. Pump of Origins White Tea Skin Guardian on the back of the hand and then gently applied to the face, followed by Decleor’s Hydra floral. Really the moisturiser is too light for me on these winter mornings but it smells so wonderful and the texture is so beautiful that I can’t bring myself to abandon it in favour of the more effective and equally pleasant to use Liz Earle Superskin Moisturiser.
Next comes the make up and that is the tricky bit. Please, please, please Bare Escentuals come up with an on the go applicator. So far the versions that I have tried have been hopeless – like the one in the little black purse. They’re just too messy. Preloaded retractor brushes also don’t work because I forget to preload them. There’s got to be a better model. If it weren’t for the fact that the makeup is so good, I’d have given up by now.
Models Prefer for the mascara. Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat for the dark circles under the eyes. Bare Escentuals again for the lips – the buxom babes range.
That’s it. Good to go. 15 minutes all told. Sure who wouldn’t take the extra few minutes in bed in the morning?
