You know how once you're denied something, you want it all the more? That was me with makeup. I wasn't allowed to wear makeup until my late teens, so I had to sneak around with it behind my parents' backs. My relationship to beauty has been a long and intimate journey - and I love it! I have an obsessive personality and will research a topic to the point of exhaustion. Outside the world of beauty fabulosity, I employ my time with witty conversation, reading, TV (both quality and trashy), and good company (including the Mister and kitties Tink & Bella).