Morning! Got a little cheese to go with your coffee today. 🙂 LOL. Perhaps some yummy gouda with a sprinkle of fresh mozzarella?
No, seriously, that quote at the top is only partially for you. It’s also for me, because I’ve been thinking lately about making a career change/adjustment. Basically, I love Makeup and Beauty Blog, and I have no intention of ever stopping it, but I’m starting to really miss going someplace to work…
Don’t get me wrong! Tabs is a wonderful 🐱 employer. He’s fair, generous, fluffy, and I get fantastic fringe benefits (unlimited kitty hugs and purrs), but he isn’t a big conversationalist, and I’m really starting to miss talking to, you know…people.
But change is scary, especially when you don’t know what it is you want to change yet!
Anyway, I wonder sometimes what it must be like for people who live life — not necessarily without fear — but with a strong sense of purpose and a natural inclination to focus on all of the things that could go right, instead of focusing on the things that could go wrong (which is what I tend to do). What must that be like?
Do you think about things like that? Do you lean toward thinking about the good things that could happen, or the bad? Sometimes I think there’s no possible way to predict how something will go until you take a leap.
Yes, I’m feeling extra corny today, and I haven’t had enough coffee yet, so I don’t know if anything I just said makes any sense. Haha! 🙂
Onward to this week’s stories…
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Artist and MIT grad Ani Liu creates perfumes that smell like people…specifically individuals you know and love. She claims to have figured out a way to describe someone in scent FOREVER, thereby evoking memories of them with just one whiff.
So far, she’s bottled the scents of her husband, herself, her parents, a lab mate, and a chemist who helped her.
Sounds very 🚀 sci-fi, doesn’t it?
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This month marks the 75th anniversary of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the only women’s professional baseball ⚾ league in U.S. history, which ran from 1943 to 1954. Their motto? “Play like a man, look like a lady.”
When the league started, looking feminine on the field was a big deal, and players were required to wear lipstick. The league even had a “charm school,” which was run by Helena Rubinstein, a famous beauty powerhouse at the time.
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Working in nail salons may get safer if a new bill becomes law at the federal level. Last week U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., introduced The Environmental Justice Right to Know Act, a bill which would direct the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to research ventilation in beauty salons and determine a healthy level of ventilation for workers. It would also require (and this is big) The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to report to Congress on the long-term negative health effects of chemicals in beauty products.
- Somebody created nails that look like teeth, and quite frankly they’re my nightmare.
- If you’re in the mood for a fun art project and have an extra bottle of nail polish lying around, try marbling a vase or a pitcher.
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I gotta hand it to Jean Paul Gaultier… He seems like a classy guy! When he was asked about the similarities between his Le Classique perfume bottle and the new Kim Kardashian West KKW Body perfume, instead of throwing shade, he downplayed the whole thing by saying, “I couldn’t put my body [for a women’s perfume], so I put a different body. She did her own body, so it’s different.”
- In countries outside the U.S., perfumes for babies and children are commonplace.
Have a great weekend and a wonderful Mother’s Day, OK? I hope to see you in the comments.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
Just know that whatever leap you take, your MBB peeps will be here to support you 🙂
Hoping you have a great weekend!
You’re so brave to consider the possibilities that await you!
I’m totally a person who thinks about the bad things that could occur. So you’re in good company.
Also–off topic for this post but I read about how you can’t get into your prepregnancy clothes. I wasn’t able to get into mine either. My hips got broader and so did my ribcage–that ribcage ain’t ever going back to what it was. My feet grew also.
Happy Mother’s Day to you, mother of Tabs and Connor Claire!!!
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What you said makes perfect sense. You’ve spent every day for the last two years with a baby and a cat. I remember that stage well- I loved spending every day with my niece (and the dog), but sometimes I felt… stagnate. I spent my time watching Dora and teaching her to count; there wasn’t a lot in it to challenge my brain and encourage personal growth. I finally learned that I had to do something just for me, something to ‘refuel’ my personal tank. It made me a better aunt and improved my other relationships, too.
I’m sort of the opposite. I wish I could work from home and accomplish things whenever the hell I want. You can tell i’m tired of closing and then opening shifts, huh? I’m a princess and this princess needs her sleep between work. My boss likes them and schedules them to other people as if they like that shizz too… But you’re in a different place than I am, so I get it.
Those nails! *runs away screaming*
and, I like that pitcher project, but I wonder if you took a dark pitcher (brown, maroon, plum) and used gold nail polish how that would look…? Something for fall.
Have you read anything by Tama Kieves? She has some books out and does workshops focusing on finding your path. Here’s her website: https://www.tamakieves.com/
I could not relate to you more about the feelings of what could go wrong. I’m always thinking about negativity. It’s kind of crippling at times. It prevents me from doing a lot. I’m trying to be less of a what if person. Just be in the moment.
PS the nails are disturbing.
Hey Karen! I get what you’re saying. I’m sure when you spend so much time with a baby you probably wonder what else is out there. Truth be told, I work at a job all day and wonder what it would be like if I could work from home, etc. The grass is always greener I suppose. But you owe it to yourself to give it s try! And with Miss Connor Claire growing up so fast, she won’t need your constant attention. You go girl, in whatever you choose!
Very inspirational. It will happen. God’s name will be spray-painted all over it. In neon pink.
Could Kim K be any more obsessed with herself?! Wow.
I feel the same way. I have 2 little ones at home, ages three(son) and one and a half(daughter) and sometimes when I speak to real adults it feels as though my speech has become stunted. So I have tried to take up reading lately, as in serious reading not snippets of online articles. I worked for the first 9 months of my son’s life and knowing what I missed with my son versus my younger daughter I don’t want to miss any of these moments with them. But I still toy with the idea of going back to work and then I realize how very truly lucky I am to be at home with them, not very many people get that opportunity.
On the perfume note… have you ever seen a movie named Perfume the story of a murderer? It is based on a book but you should definitely see it. My hub called it one of my weird artsy foreign films but he did like it. The main character too is trying to capture the scent of an individual.
That movie immediately came to mind when I read what Ani Liu was doing with perfume. The movie’s interesting concept was bizarre, unsettling, and strangely compelling all at the same time.
You do you! I am a constant worrier and lost maker and am crazy afraid of change but I feel like for the most part in almost every aspect of my life, things have worked out well and how they were meant to. Jobs, educations etc. It may not have been what I initially wanted or maybe it was tough to do, but it ended up working out. Writing that out makes me also kind of think that we each have a part in things and so maybe things work out because people can adapt and make the best of everything. And now I’m rambling, but good luck!
Thank you Jade, for this. You are very kind!
Somewhere there is a happy medium between jumping and no action. Dip your toe in the pool by taking a part time job, maybe volunteer or intern 1 day a week. Wishing you all the best and Happy Mother’s Day!
Well said, Lily!
Karen, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. I worked full time all my adult life and, when I retired, I loved every moment of my newly found leisure time. After I got all caught up with projects that I had put off over the years, though, I found I really wanted to be out and about on a regular basis; going places and engaging with people. So, I started volunteering. It’s given me the best of both worlds.
On the topic of scent capturing the essence of a person, several years ago there was an unsettling movie called Peefume. It was about a young perfumer who became obsessed with capturing the scent of young womanhood. Unfortunately, when he became fascinated by the scent of a particular woman, he had to kill her to extract her scent. What price perfume!
Hi Eileen,
Thank you for the advice. There’s a mom’s group that I’m part of; maybe I can volunteer to do something for the group. 🙂
That movie sounds CRAZY scary!
Thank you Lily. That’s good advice.
Hope you had a nice day and a wonderful weekend.
I started a soap business and I’ll be working from home onwards, but my therapist recommended I do things outside the home because being exposed to different people is better for me. I kinda understand where you’re coming from.
I think it’s very smart to consider all the possible negatives before making a decision. It doesn’t mean they’ll happen but, it does help you to not be blindsided – and also helps to ensure you’re making informed decisions. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst, and all that. 🙂 Changing jobs, whether you’re working from home or working outside, is a scary thing for almost everyone. And you have a family so you’ll tend to be more conservative with the risk taking. I personally think you’ll be great at whatever you decide to do and you have El Hub so you’re not going it alone. People who think that staying home with your kids is some kind of vacation do not have kids. HAHA! There’s no way I could have done it (well) and applaud all the moms who can. But, I also don’t think I would work well from home, even without kids. In the end, you have to do what will make you happy. 🙂