Makeover Fail.

Every once in a while, Scottsdale Moms Blog hooks their contributors up with some fun opportunities. This time, it was mini-makeovers at a recently-opened salon in Old Town Scottsdale.

Haircuts and any esthetician services were 50% off, and we got free chair massages and makeup applications.  It was especially fun to hang out with the other gals.

My 'before' photos

(I was desperately in need of a haircut, so this was great!)

And my 'after' photos, which I obediently sent to our editor

For the first time since leaving my beloved stylist in Rochester, I actually really liked my haircut!  Saving these to show for next time (since the salon is sadly 40 mins away and $$$$).

 

Sweet sugar boy

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Okay ---

Truth.

The haircut was great.

The chair massage was great.

The brow wax was great.

But LOOK AT MY MAKEUP!!!!

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This.  THIS is what made this experience blog worthy.  I mean, look!!

This is the face of a woman who is sitting in her car and has been laughing too hard to safely drive home.

Those eyebrow.... That eyeshadow...  

It's really a crying shame you can't zoom on these images or you would appreciate that my skin looks caked like a corpse and the lipliner is actually drawn around my mouth.

How can one set of eyelashes carry so many clumps?

The makeup "artist" applied all of this everrrrr soooo slowwwwly.  She worked on those eyebrows for an eternity.  Seriously.  Everyone else had left and ALL of the stylists/estheticians/masseuses/managers/etc were hanging out at the front of the salon - right in front of me - and watching me get transformed into Ronald MacDonald's twin sister.  With my back to a mirror.  So I had no idea.

The best part was that when she was done (but before I saw the result), the lady stood back and in a delighted voice said, "Ooooh, you're so sexy!!  And I did that!!"

When she turned me around, I couldn't help it.  I laughed.  Like, POP out BAHAHA! laughter.  I couldn't get out of there fast enough to take these selfies and send them to my girlfriends!  What an experience.

THANK THE LORD it was free and washes off.

THANK THE LORD that I volunteered to go last for makeup since the other moms had kids to pick up from school and I didn't have to be back at a specific time.

THANK THE LORD they all left before I got in the hot seat (they all had corpse-style skin, too, but no one looked nearly as clown-like as me).

THANK THE LORD I got to go home - after texting our babysitter a warning - and wash my face/redo my makeup before submitting an "after" photo.  No way in heck was I going to let this face get posted on SMB for all of Scottsdale to see!

At least I still have the cute haircut.

Don't have nightmares.  :)