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Colleen Coble writes romantic suspense with a strong atmospheric element. A lovable animal of some kind--usually a dog--always populates her novels. She can be bribed with DeBrand mocha truffles.
Denise Hunter writes women's fiction and love stories with a strong emotional element. Her husband says he provides her with all her romantic material, but Denise insists a good imagination helps too.
Diann Hunt writes romantic comedy and humorous women's fiction. She has been happily married forever, loves her family, chocolate, her friends, chocolate, her dog, and well, chocolate.
Cheryl Hodde writes romantic medical suspense under the pen name of Hannah Alexander, using all the input she can get from her husband, Mel, for the medical expertise. For fun she hikes and reads. Out of guilt, she rescues discarded cats. She and Mel are presently taking orders from four pampered strays.
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Bless your heart, Diann. Your positive outlook is such an inspiration!
This may or may not be helpful to you, but have you tried searching a site for people with Alopecia? They live with no eyelashes/brows/hair for most of their lives. My best friend in college had this condition. Her wig was amazing and she was so adept with her eyebrow pencils, you never knew she had no hair!
I'm sure you have had lots of support and suggestions from others. I just thought another resource might be useful...
http://www.naaf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=products_wigs
Diann,
At least you are aware of the status of your eyelashes and eyebrows. I was the last to notice it! How pathetic is that?? :-)
My one attempt at elegance was choosing a new pair of earrings every time I went for a treatment or check-up. In fact, I still give myself permission, although it is more rationalized than justified these days!
So...no help from me on this one. But, oh, how I LOVE to hear your voice here!!
Good luck on your quest! Love you!
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Can you go to a Sephora (sp?) or some other makeup place and have fun trying different makeups? The girls there will show you all kinds of things. I love the powder titanium oxide shadows that work as well for eyebrows, just get something a little lighter than your hair or wig color so it looks more natural.
Oh, and remember that glasses cover up a whole lot. That's why I started wearing glasses again after so many years with contacts. They hide the wrinkles and circles around my eyes. If you got some with a deeper color around the upper frame that will cover your eyebrows that helps. I used to love those glasses that had shading in the top half, but I guess that's out of style these days. I always thought those looked so great, and no need to even wear eye makeup at all.
I'm with you, Di. I even told Amber not to try for any glamour shots. I mean, really. Me? GLamour? No way. I end up looking like Goofy.
And then we have the farsightedness. I need super power magnification to put the makeup on. Try lugging that on an airplane. You end up having lunch with security. A long lunch.
Forget the eyebrows. A little pencil or powder will give the effect. And eyelashes? I remember wearing them when I was a teenager. They were all the rage. But now, I just look sleepy if I try them on.
Go for the naked look and wear a sign "I need chocolate."
Thanks for the site, Valerie. I'll check it out!
I like the earrings reward, Beverly!
Oooo, rhinestone glasses, that's a thought! Good idea, Cheryl!
The "I need chocolate" sign is a perfect idea, Ane! LOL
Keep the ideas coming, girls!
This is your opportunity to have the long, lush lashes you always wanted. And, okay, the chance to laugh at yourself when they drop into your soup. But, hey, laughter is the best medicine, right?
BTW, those eyelashes in the picture you posted: for my Kindergartner's Halloween party, my co-room mom SUPER GLUED a pair of those on. She said the stuff that came with them didn't work and she wanted to be festive, after all!
She looked fine the next time I saw her, eye lashes intact, but I can't suggest going that route (have you read the warnings on super-glue products lately?) The ideas here are much better!
My girlfriend just started getting fake lashes applied at a spa place here in town. It's not that expensive (under $30)and lasts about a month I think. The neat thing about these is that they apply them individually so you lose them naturally. A lash at a time I guess.
Also, that medicine, Latisse, actually works. We prescribe it at my work. It is pricey. Costs about $100 a month but the results have been positive.
I'm with Denise...do it. Splurge and if you find yourself in a Lucy moment, all the more reason to laugh and enjoy yourself! Love ya, Diann! :)
there was a lady that worked at the same place i did, and she drawed her eyebrows on, you wouldn't have to worry about them falling off.
that reminds me of that part of a movie , "Yours, Mine,Ours" with Lucelle Ball, where her kid made her up to go on her date with Henry Fonda, they were that the bar, and her eyelashes got stuck and she try get them apart and this other man thought she was winking at him! it was funny!
your inner beauty makes your outer bauty even more!
I've been dying for the past week to write about a cashier in a local grocery store who wears false eyelashes. Thanks for the opportunity, Di!
Long. Very long. Much too long to be punching in prices of celery and toilet paper. She looked so out of place that all I could do was stare.
Keep this in mind when you go in search of eyelashes. LOL.
Oooh and eyebrows, I have a friend who got some tatoo-ed on. They turned a greenish color. They look awful.
Hang in there, they'll grow back soon enough. Just keep enjoying life!
I know an old lady who evidently thought she'd give herself a cheap facelift. Her natural eyebrows (and the facial bone on which they sit) had kind of....sunk, making her natural eyebrows kind of in the sockets where her eyeballs should be, if you can picture it! :) Anyway, she keeps her natural eyebrows completely plucked away, except you can see a tiny shadow where they try to come back in. Then she draws on her pencilled ones, where she wants them to be on her face, where her original brows USED to be. About TWO INCHES higher than where the originals now rest in peace, ha! She looks very perky and surprised, but not unhappy or unpleasant! Other than that, I'm clueless, Di. Without chemo, both my lashes and eyebrows are thinning terribly.
Diann,
Surely you are now possessor of some material for your next book! :=)
Great comments, everyone! Thank you so much for your input! I had such fun reading them! LOL!
I forgot about the "permanent eyeliner." You can get that done and no one will notice you don't have lashes. Of course, it hurts a bit. LOL I had it done years ago when I worked for an Ophthalmologist. Only problem is that it isn't really permanent. They basically tattoo the eyeliner on, but as your skin sloughs off, it wears away. But it lasted about a year or more.
I agree with valerie on the eyebrow liner. I am not sure about the eye lashes because, like you, I am afraid to try them. I quit using mascara altogether because I got tired of it scratching my eyes!
I think with a great eye liner and shadow you won't need the lashes.
Btw, you are beautiful just the way you are.
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