I have a confession to make.
I am addicted to make up. And not just any- specifically mascara.
Okay, here’s how it went down. My mother started putting make up on me when I was about six for fancy family photos. Not even kidding. It was usually blush, lip gloss, … and my old dear friend, mascara.
![check out that smokin seven year old blonde in the back!](https://i0.wp.com/the-dregs.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ol-mills-photo-zupon-girls.jpg?resize=222%2C300&ssl=1)
Once the Regan recession hit us hard, we couldn’t afford fancy studio quality photos, so my mother took to doing her own. She again appointed herself chief makeup artist.
![can't tell the difference between my mom's work and a professional, right?](https://i0.wp.com/the-dregs.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/xmas-make-up.jpg?resize=300%2C224&ssl=1)
(I think my sisters may hunt me down and kill me after this blog. Who cares! Onto victory)
Looking at that photo… it’s supposed to be a holiday one… I don’t know what’s worse; the make up, that my mom considered purple to be ‘holiday enough’ for me, or my FLY POPPED COLLAR.
I was in a wedding once. This is what happened:
![4th grade and the 80s were still goin STRONG](https://i0.wp.com/the-dregs.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/80s-wedding.jpg?resize=233%2C300&ssl=1)
Well, when I entered middle school at the tender age of ten, my mom actually told me I could wear mascara, in her words, “As long as you don’t look like a whore”. She was such a tactful parent. So I did what any ten year old given enough slack would do! I wore make up to school.
![a perm, oh lord it's a perm!](https://i0.wp.com/the-dregs.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/7th-grade-school-photo.jpg?resize=240%2C300&ssl=1)
^That’s me in middle school. I don’t look like a whore!
So years upon years of wearing it, and mascara has become my shield. My armor. My necessity. I cannot leave the house without it. Yesterday I got in my car to run a quick errand and in the *chance* someone might look into my car and notice me before I had my shower, I PUT ON MAKE UP.
![Seriously. My morning is: A) shower, B) HIDE THOSE BLOND EYELASHES ASAP](https://i0.wp.com/the-dregs.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/me-fresh-out-of-the-shower.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1)
So…. the next time you see me at a Dregs show putting on make up… it’s just my addiction, baby. 25 years of something can’t be WRONG!
![what? a girl being worried about her appearance is period!](https://i0.wp.com/the-dregs.net/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/fest-make-up.jpg?resize=300%2C209&ssl=1)