It Really Doesn't Hurt, Trust Me...

Permanent makeup is a cosmetic technique which employs tattoos (permanent pigmentation of the dermis) as a means of producing designs that resemble makeup, such as eye lining and other permanent enhancing colors to the skin of the face, lips, and eyelids.

Permanent, really only means about 5 to 10 years, when referring to permanent makeup I have decided. My first experience with permanent makeup happened about 5 years ago in Orem, where I had rented a small home, while I was deciding where to live in Utah. A friend of a friend’s daughter was graduating from cosmetology school and needed to show her technique regarding permanent makeup to graduate.

Before you assume the best, I was her practice, not her final exam. We set up the kitchen table with pillow and blanket and we began...She was very good, but it hurt like heck! So I crawled off of the table and decided that I had to take an over the counter pain reliever to endure the slight discomfort.

Ahh, that was much better...a little braver now, I climbed back up and we started again. Holy Crap that hurt! “Give me just another second” I got down off of the table again, and tried a different pain reliever. At this point, I was regretting not being a drinker. I got back up and braved it through the rest of my first eye.

Then, there is always eye #2, never a big one for eyeliner; even I knew that it would be stupid to walk around with only one eye finished. So onto the left eye...Gheez, how could it hurt worse than the first one? I again got off of the table and this time dug into my dresser drawer, there had to be something left over from my hand surgery.

After taking my next installment, I staggered back to the table and we finished. I got off of the table and reassured Kaylene, who had been waiting and watching that it wasn’t that bad. I think this is the same lie that we tell to those wanting to get pregnant. “The pain of delivery is nothing, real women do it without drugs.” Truth of the matter is that you want everyone else to hurt as much as you did.

Why this whole blog on Permanent eye makeup? Mine has started to fade...alas, It has to be touched up, and I have an appointment tonight. I have decided to start taking pain killers now, and maybe by 6 tonight I will have to be wheeled in and really won’t feel a thing. I will let you know.

Cats, Hamsters and early mornings!

I woke up to hear a very noticeable squeak in my room to find Chip, my ever so lazy Black Cat and Kathleen's temporary cat, Patches, playing volleyball with the Hamster that Tammy thought they had killed yesterday.

I Jumped out of bed, okay, so I kind of rolled and stumbled out of bed, and the chase began! I am running around trying to shoo cats with one hand and chase a lightening fast, miniature hamster with the other. In the process I hit the crown of my head on the sofa table, (there is an obvious bump there that been seen and felt), a slid like I was coming into home base at least 3 times and to top the whole thing off, I finally caught the poor little guy and stubbed my toe (on the bad foot of course) on one of the boys toys coming up the stairs.

Yep, nothing better than a nice quiet Saturday morning to sleep in! So Hamster is now safely in its cage and not in a cat's belly or mouth. I have a headache, and I have to stay up, because I so foolishly made a 9:00 am nail appointment. Later.... (Did I mention that the bump on my head really hurts?)

Real Estate for Dummies

I have officially started another new career! I know…no big surprise for those of you who have known me for years. I seem to recycle through careers about every 5 years. What does that say for my attention level? Not sure…

I have a very close friend that decided to go into Real Estate a few years ago, and somewhere along the way he convinced me to “help” him out a little, (looking back I don’t remember him asking me to help?!) I became his assistant, and the rest, you might say, is history.

I decided, after a while to take the Real Estate Classes for myself, because how hard could it be? The classes were a breeze, which is why I am not sure I learned much at the school. (Jan Sudweeks, You will remember when we took the Real Estate Classes together in San Diego, I never took the test then either)

Next comes the terrifying part…taking the Real Estate Exam! I have always considered myself to be people smart and half way intelligent, until you place an exam in front of me. (Yes, I have lived in Utah for about 5 years now and I still have my California Drivers License, because there is an exam involved to get the Utah license, fine, so it is an open book test, and it still scares me.)


I finally set up the appointment and immediately panicked. All of a sudden, I could remember nothing about anything related to Real Estate, So I resorted to buying my favorite tool. A “Dummies Book”. Yep, there really is a “Real Estate License Exams for Dummies” Book, and the results? I passed!

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