COVID-19 Daily Advice - Put on Make-Up and Fix your Hair

When you are “homebound” it is so easy to slide into complacency and just “schlep” around the house!  You wear your baggiest sweats, your hair is pulled back in a tight pony-tail, and you are “eyeless!” Maybe you are one of those people blessed with dark, lush eyebrows and dark rimmed, long lashed peepers, but I’m not!  Without a little eye makeup, some good moisturizer and a wipe of lipstick, I am rather ghostlike in appearance. With the disappearance of my eyes and face, my mood also loses its ability to be positive and resilient and I just turn “frumpy!”

Hair is currently a challenge for many of us. The hairdressers we’ve come to count on are on quarantine orders as well. My hairdresser closed her shop the day before my appointment for a cut. My bangs were out of control, hanging in my eyes. One of the biggest rules of COVID prevention strategies is “DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE!” So how do you do that when your bangs or long hair is constantly whipping over your face?  Start wacking at your own bangs.  I did a pretty fair job. Now to live with the changes in color – someone ventured that by the end of quarantine everyone would know their “true color😊”

Putting on some simple makeup, washing and fixing up your hair, and looking your best gives a real positive boost to one’s mental attitude. These days, we need to protect our mental health as much as we protect ourselves from an invisible virus. Take care my friend!