My love 事件／事情／状勢 with make-up! Women spend a 報告（する）／憶測d £100,000 on cosmetics in a lifetime and I don't 悔いる a penny...

By Linda Kelsey for MailOnline
Updated: 10:10 BST, 15 August 2011

At 8am, I’m getting ready to go to the office. In the mirror I 調査する my sleep-puffy 直面する and reach for my make-up 捕らえる、獲得する. It’s a ritual so familiar I could go through it with my 注目する，もくろむs の近くにd.

First, I 適用する a dab of concealer, then a light 悪賢い of 創立／基礎. Next up 注目する，もくろむ 影をつくる／尾行する and 注目する，もくろむ-liner, followed by mascara, lipstick and blusher. In いっそう少なく than five minutes, I’m done.

I look more awake now, and I’m starting to feel it, too. I make myself a cup of coffee and leave the house. Walking half-a-dozen steps across the 覆うd backyard I open the door to my shed-turned-office, sit 負かす／撃墜する at my computer to start work.?

Fact: によれば a 熟考する／考慮する, women spend £100,000 on cosmetics over a lifetime - equating to £40 a week, or £2,000 a year

I work alone. It’s やめる possible that I won’t see anyone at all today.
So what the hell am I doing with the 十分な 非難する? What woman in her 権利 mind would faff around making herself look presentable for the dog?

井戸／弁護士席, if a 最近の 調査する is to be believed, I’m far from alone in my predilection for 絵 my 直面する. によれば the 熟考する／考慮する, women spend £100,000 on cosmetics over a lifetime. It’s a staggering 量, equating to £40 a week, or £2,000 a year.

I’d really rather not こども up my own make-up 法案s for 恐れる of going into cardiac 逮捕（する）. But given that the By Terry, Lumiere Veloutee 創立／基礎 I bought last week cost me £63.50, and the 使用／適用 小衝突 to go with it another £34.50 (even though I always smear it on with my fingers), perhaps I’m in the 支配する of the same make-up madness.

My love 事件／事情／状勢 with make-up goes 支援する to my mother. I remember lying on my tummy when I was about four, propped on my 肘s on the lilac eiderdown which covered her bed, watching rapturously as my mother 用意が出来ている for a party at one of the glamorous Mayfair casinos she used to たびたび（訪れる） with? my father.

A beauty even without her make-up, she’d sit at her dressing （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する, wrapped in a dressing gown and fluffy merino feathered mules. She’d knot a small plastic cape around her shoulders, and then, like an artist arranging her 小衝突s, she’d line up her make-up in 前線 of her.

Her only unladylike moment, and one which rather broke the （一定の）期間, was when she spat into her little of 封鎖する of mascara to moisten it, before painstakingly 徹底的に捜すing it through her 攻撃するs.

The best she saved for last, dipping her big? 砕く puff into her 削減（する）-glass bowl for a final 勝利を得た 繁栄する, before standing up, spraying a heady もや of Estee Lauder’s 青年 Dew into the 空気／公表する and walking through it. It was Hollywood make-up, first? perfected for the lights of the silver 審査する by Max Factor, that 示すd one of my make-up milestones.

Max Factor’s Pan Stik, designed fo r the 直面する rather than the lips, was my favourite Sixties lippy to help 達成する that 流行の／上流の combination of 最高の-pale lips and dark 注目する，もくろむs. The fact that the Pan Stik 公式化 of the day 乾燥した，日照りのd my lips to the texture of burnt toast bothered me not a bit.

Lipstick took on a whole new meaning for Linda when she went to work at Cosmopolitan Magazine where every week, hundreds of 見本s would arrive

連合させるd with painted-on eyelashes and 鉱夫s real-攻撃する falsies, I 達成するd the look I 手配中の，お尋ね者. At which point my father would 一般に march into my bedroom, like the retired Army major he was, and 主張する that I ‘wipe off that muck ― すぐに’.

適用するing make-up on the bus, away from my Victorian dad’s watchful 注目する，もくろむ, was good practice for later years when I had to frantically 適用する it at traffic lights as I drove to work. Lipstick took on a whole new meaning for me when I went to work at Cosmopolitan Magazine, where we coined the 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 ‘lipstick feminism’ to distinguish ourselves from the 交戦的な types who 辞退するd to shave their armpits.

Every week, hundreds of 見本s would arrive on the beauty editor’s desk. Like children let loose in a 甘い shop, we’d clamour for the 最新の 略奪する to try and 実験（する）, and then we’d? 報告（する）／憶測 支援する on our 非，不，無-too-科学の findings.

With all that make-up sloshing around for 解放する／自由な, no wonder I became something of an （麻薬）常用者. In my late 20s, I once told a boyfriend the biggest 嘘（をつく）. We had planned a 週末 away in フラン. When we arrived at the airport, I realised I had forgotten my make-up 捕らえる、獲得する. Panicked, I pretended it was my パスポート that I’d left behind.

My boyfriend looked at his watch and worked out that if he drove 支援する 負かす／撃墜する the M1, we might just get 支援する to my flat and still be in time for our flight, which we did. The poor guy never 設立する out he’d been duped. I don’t think I’ve ever again behaved as 不正に as I did on that occasion.

The one time in my life when I’ve given up on my 外見 altogether was during a two-year period of 深い 不景気. Only when the 不明瞭 began to 解除する did I find myself reaching for my make-up again. So, for me, make-up is associated with not just wanting to look good, but feeling it, too.

I recently spent a week alone on holiday with my sister at our family apartment in Spain. At the end of the week, we were 存在 joined by David, her? husband of 40 years, who excels in caustic humour rather than compliments.

I was washing the chlorine out of my hair when my sister shouted from the? living room: ‘You’re not doing make-up for David, are you, because I can’t be bothered.’

‘井戸／弁護士席, you せねばならない be bothered,’ I shouted 支援する. When David dropped his 事例／患者s at the door, he walked straight up to my sister, and said: ‘Gosh, you look gorgeous. What happened?’

‘Must be the tan,’ she said, casting me a sly grin. Not to について言及する a little help from Laura Mercier and No 7. I didn’t say a word.