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Making up isn’t so hard to do

Posted on by One Vision
Makeup.

There is a way round this for now.
And its this..

A 10X magnifying mirror. You can get stronger strengths of you need them. Saves me from stressing out putting makeup on, doing eyebrows etc and saves time.

Eyeliner takes a while as both eyes have to match, obviously. I’ve nearly gone out with berry coloured lip pencil before now on one eye… Actually.. I’ve just had a thought… If I put some bright nail varnish on the end of the lip pencils.. I will know it’s the lip pencil won’t I? Genius. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before now. Problem solving. Getting good at this.
Anyway, I’m digressing… they have got to match and usually the first friend I see if I’m going out is greeted by… ‘hello… *hug* is my makeup ok’.
You don’t want to look a clown or drag queen when you haven’t blended your foundation correctly or if one eyebrow is concerned and the other surprised.
Just takes a bit more patience and concentration these days but it can be done ☺
Now nail varnish. This is a pain in the arse. I cannot see my nails to put the nail varnish on. Mainly because the flesh of the fingers and the nails are similar in colour. They sort of merge together.
I hit and hope. Maybe just writing this now has made me think I should fathom out a way. So I will. It may look like this – (please see picture below)… for all I know. Unless I put my fingernails right up to my face to look.
Womans fingers with badly applied red nail varnish
So, I would recommend starting with a 10X magnifying mirror possibly one you can clip or suction into something if there is such a thing (this would have been useful earlier… Please see the False hopes post 😕).
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Blinded by the light – coping with glare

Posted on by One Vision
A photograph with white light brightly shining obscuring the image

I’m just going to give you a description of how light gives me problems

If I step in from outside through the day (light to dark) it takes a few seconds for my eyes to adjust so I’m temporarily what I would call blinded for a few seconds.

The transition makes me wary if I’m unfamiliar with the building as I don’t want to be tumbling down a step I can’t see 😕

Through the day, glare from the sunlight on objects, metal ones in particular, vehicles, poles, windows make me turn away and I often start turning away before they ‘catch me’.

Night time, any lights at all outside.

Sunglasses make your eyes feel ‘comfier’ even on quite a normal day when it’s not bright for anyone else.

Bit graphic but, it feels like pointy stick is being poked in your eye and if I don’t have my sunglasses on and it’s bright, I will suffer later with pains in my eye socket for a few hours upto a few days later.

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False hopes

Posted on by One Vision
Cartoon woman with hand over mouth with red sore eye shut
Sometimes I can forget my limitations. So far not many.

It’s like with some things I forget I can’t see properly.
For instance. It was one of my sisters from another misters wedding the other week.
So, I thought, I’m going to get some false eyelashes and they will look nice.
So off I went and bought them. Chuffed with my purchase went home and put them with my outfit and waited for my friends special day.
On the big day, I had already done my eyebrows with my magic 10X magnification mirror, (which you can imagine wasn’t easy…another story) my makeup was on with plenty of time to spare. I had spent a lot of time with my magnifying mirror, (another post later about this genius little item).
Then time for the lashes. Popped the glue on, realised I couldn’t hold my mirror AND stick them on at the same time.
Ah, I thought, how am I supposed to do this 🤔
Had to use the big mirror with a magnifying side but not like the shear epicness of my other little magic mirror.
So I thought, I will stick them on and slide them around if I don’t get the right spot. Hard when my double vision was kicking in.
Plopped them on the spot I thought would be right.
Wrong. Too high up and I had bought black blumming glue! I hadn’t seen that detail on the packet.
I stared at my black smudgy, gluey sticky eye.
With not long to go now before I was being picked up.
It\’s a good job I never really wear these often as I could have had a meltdown.
Then I sat down and stared at myself in the mirror and just really started laughing.
A couple of years ago I managed perfectly OK when I popped some on for Halloween. Now it looked like I WAS Halloween or Alice Cooper. So I was surprised.
Now, may not seem much, but getting used to what I can do, what I can find a way to manage to do, and what I can\’t do now when once I could. Is humbling and a challenge. Usually I find a way but this… no chance.
Realising next time I will ask a friend or just buy some better mascara.
I quickly tried to wipe the glue off from in and around my now sore eye. Patch up my makeup to match the other eye then went downstairs.
Then there was a knock at the door. My friend was here to pick me up.
Quick check in the mirror thinking, well I haven’t done so badly with it.
Closer look, one red sore looking weeping eye.
Just when you want to look your best ☺
Hey ho, lesson learnt.