Everything I’ve learned about makeup trends I learned from my MADs party bag

I was wash­ing my face the other day using my Liz Earle Cleanse & Pol­ish hot cloth cleanser and it hit me. The only rea­son I know about Liz Earle is because of the MADs! Now most peo­ple who attended the MADsare going on about how much fun they had. I too had a blast. I love see­ing every­one out enjoy­ing them­selves, chat­ting w/ peo­ple they usu­ally only chat to online. I loved see­ing crazy women “rid­ing” the stag at the Rad­di­son Blu– I’m sure the won­der­ful staff are still recov­er­ing!  But what has stayed with me the most is what I take home with me… lit­ter­ally in this case!  I’ve been bathing in Neal’s Yard laven­der scented bath foam thanks to last years MADs bag. I’m not mois­tur­is­ing my skin thanks to the MADs and their Bee Lovely body lotion. I mean I don’t even think I knew of them before last year. I know I’m soo up with the kids when it comes to these sort of things. Actu­ally do kids use Neal’s Yard or only old ladies like me?

My favourite prod­uct from last years MADs was the Liz Earle. It’s ter­ri­bly expen­sive, or so a friend told me, so I use it spar­ingly.  Ya see not only am I stuck in my makeup rut, ( HELLO 1988! ) I’m also kinda cheap. When I say kinda I mean I’m really cheap. I don’t mind spend­ing money on Squidge or Wal or hell even the house but on me? Nope! I’ll just pop down to Sainsbury’s for  pair of jeans. I bought some fab dresses at Costco this sum­mer for £12! I look OK and spent very lit­tle money. I sup­pose that’s why I’m stuck in a makeup rut ( HELLO 1988!) I don’t want to buy some­thing and then not like it.

This years new find? Makeup PRIMER! What… the…f*&% is that I asked Sally as we madly filled the bags full of swag love­ly­ness at 9:30 the morn­ing of the awards cer­e­mony. Sally who wears very lit­tle make up and doesn’t do the girlie girl thing even more than me explains to me all about it. Primer for your makeup? You put it on before foun­da­tion? Whaaaaa? How have I lived 234353 yrs with­out ever hear­ing of it or real­is­ing it was some­thing I needed? How do you find out about these things? I sup­pose I could go to the makeup counter at John Lewis but I don’t trust those women. They’re too made up and they’re try­ing to sell me their prod­uct. Of course they’re going to tell me I need these things but do I really, really need them? Prob­a­bly not. So I stick with my Max Fac­tor foun­da­tion, my Oil of Olay mois­turiser and my Revlon lip­stick. If I’m com­pletely hon­est I don’t really wear lip­stick. I’m usu­ally slap­ping on some Burt’s Bees lip balm and rock­ing the looks like death look.

So there you have it, my recap of the MADs! It was a blast. I loved see­ing every­one. Next year I want to win. Makeup primer it’s what all the kids are wearing.