For young girls, it starts with lip gloss

[iris27]

40. Kinda disturbing that it's the mom bringing her in.

I started shaving my legs and wearing lip gloss at 10, when all the other girls in class were doing it (geez, how cliche). But I was doing it behind my mom's back -- at least until she realized her razor was dull -- and certainly not with her behind the wheel.

I never got much beyond the lip gloss stage. Sometimes I wonder if it's been a professional liability that I never wear makeup because I can't put it on properly without looking like a hooker.

But then I remember that I apparently present as butch enough that the one day I came to work wearing earrings, three different people said, "Oh! You got your ears pierced! Huh!"...when really, they've been pierced since I was a kid...I just never wear jewelry. So makeup would probably just make me look like I was attempting drag, the way earrings and dresses do.