There’s a lot of people in my house right now. Family members coming and going all hours of the night and day. Sarah often works into the night. It was all okay when I was on research leave with a flexible schedule but now I’m back to my big job with long days, I need to sleep at night.
People flashing on the bathroom light and the halllight wake me up. I can’t keep my door closed because there’s a dog involved. Cheddar!
When sleep masks showed up in ads in my social media newsfeeds, I jumped. That’s out of character for me. I’m usually pretty good at resisting internet ads, but not this time.
This sleep mask is pretty comfy. I’ll report back on how it goes.
That’s purchase one.
I blogged recently about all the Botox ads on my Toronto walk home. The neighborhood is gentrifying and is full of yoga and pilates studios, hair salons, cosmetic surgery clinics, mani-pedi places, blow out studios, and brow bars.
Brow bars! A whole salon just for eyebrows. I haven’t done anything to my eyebrows since high school when I occasionally tweezed them and then used eyebrow pencil to drawn in the line. But that was a shortlived adventure in makeup.
I’ve been joking about eyebrows ever since a hairdresser asked me if these were my natural eyebrows. What else would they be I wondered? Turns out there are options. Cate blogged a bit about that here.
And then as if on cue stories about brow make up started to hit my newsfeed.
I thought maybe I should try eyebrow gel. My new big glasses kind of push my eyebrows around. Maybe with gel, they’d stay in place.
I read this: I Tested 32 Brow Gels, and This $6 Pot Is the Only One I Want to Use and bought the $6 gel and a little brush.
Here is the brand I’m trying. For $6 it’s worth a shot. Although the odds of me remembering to actually use it are small.
And that was purchase number two.
