Good vibrations

This was going to be a "woe is me" post about how I miss having my laptop on demand, and vegging on the couch, and talking to people who are not my dad.

And then this fascinating advertisement on MSN caught my eye.

"New vibrating mascara"

After I rolled my eyes for a moment and batted back my brain, I actually thought and... Wait, how is that supposed to help?

I get waterproof mascara that I use four times a year (New tubes occasionally, breathe) since I'm such a water-pot. I have visions of horror of whipping out the clumpy-after-two-hours premium brand, and pushing a presto button and... having my face liberally speckled with hard to remove mascara. You too could have black freckles everywhere! I have plenty of normal-colored freckles, thank you.

I'm bad with eye makeup anyway, but I manage, with no "oscillating action" whatsoever to get mascara splotched above my eye, and when I accidentally blink at the wrong time, all over my bottom lids as well. I am a poster child for "How to do your eye makeup and not make it anywhere on time."

And at $34 a tube, I'm pretty sure I won't be testing that theory any time soon.