What’s Your Beauty Nightmare?

I sleep like a baby. I get solid shut-eye for two to three hour tops. I often wake up and do things like count sheep, check Facebook and wonder why I can’t sleep. When I do actually get some rest, I often have very vivid dreams. They usually involve themes like work, vampires and Pilates classes. But this weekend, my dreams became super scary!

That’s because this weekend, I had a serious beauty nightmare.

Insert wave-like flashback music: I was on my way to an extra-special event where a new, super spokesmodel was going to be announced for a high-end fragrance company. For some reason, I was backstage getting ready for the fabulous fete. As I went to curl my lashes I looked at the mirror and gasped. My tinted moisturizer had flaked and caked into lizard-like skin. Along the base of my jaw I had a thick, cracking bronze line of reptilian weirdness. And I was unable to remove the patches of makeup on my cheeks and forehead. I tried to blend away the heavy gold hues with a new formula, but nothing worked. Someone at the mirror next to me saw me struggling and just laughed that Thriller video laugh. I did the requisite dreamscape run around looking for a solution and then I woke up.

Freudian theories as to why I had a beauty-product related nightmare are welcome. But the reality is: My beauty nightmare is bad skin. Lately, I’ve been playing connect the dots with blemishes. I’m also in between fantastic tinted moisturizers, which make coverage and luminosity a bit of a white whale.
So, here we go: What are your beauty nightmares? And while you’re commenting, do you have any recommendations for a sheer, yet full coverage, hydrating tinted moisturizer?

Thanks and sweet dreams. –Jenna Mahoney

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