So…what is the Monday Poll?
Excellent question! It isn’t, contrary to its name, an actual poll, like with little clicky buttons. It’s just a list of more or less random questions I’ve been posting on this blog every Monday morning for the past quadrillion years (since 2007).
1. French braid or high pony?
Hmm, I don’t know. Maybe the style that’s least likely to annoy me when I get a migraine? I guess I’d go with a high pony, then.
2. What time did you get up this morning?
6 a.m. right on the dot, but I could’ve used another hour or two of sleep.
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner?
Lately I’ve been lining only the upper part of my lids. Last year I started to feel like lower lash line liner looks a little harsh on me; actually, now that I think about it, I feel like a lot of techniques I used to do look that way. Anywho, liner. If I’m short on time, I’ll do just the upper waterline, but if I have a little extra time, then I’ll trace a thin cat eye with the tiniest flick along my upper lashes.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently?
We had a birthday party at our house yesterday for Connor. At one point in time the house was so loud with screaming, laughing and barking (the kids were pretending they were stray animals that needed to be rescued, ha)! It was absolutely fantastic.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag?
Goodness, so many things. I really need to pop by the beauty counter ASAP! Anywho, I desperately need a new brow pencil, and now the Hourglass twist-up liner I use every day has worn down to the last bits. I could also use a new mascara. And lipstick! And blush.
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
P.S. Here are the questions to copy/paste with your answers in a comment. Talk to ya soon.
1. French braid or high pony?
2. What time did you get up this morning?
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner?
4. Something that made your heart sing recently?
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag?
1. French braid or high pony?
High pony – only because I can’t do a French braid!
2. What time did you get up this morning?
6:30ish? Husband was loudly unloading dishwasher, but I guess I can’t be mad that he was doing that annoying chore!
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner?
Top of lid only. I have hooded/small eyes and if I put it on the bottom it makes my eyes look even more closed.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently?
My 2 year old drinking water from the faucet in the bath and perfectly enunciating, “MMM DELICIOUS!”
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag?
Nothing! I am trying to do a no-buy month during March. Only purchase groceries and absolute necessities. So, if I replaced anything in my makeup bag I would shop my stash and change it out with something I already have!
1. French braid or high pony? High pony…I have not learned to french braid (it’s on my list)
2. What time did you get up this morning? 5:00 am 😫
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner? I love eyeliner! I’m 41 and I’m trying to learn to wear less…but I’m addicted. I feel like I look weird without it. I wear it on my top lashes and on my bottom waterline.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently? My son willingly gave his sister some of his arcade tickets so she could get a prize❤️
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag? I probably don’t need anything…but I have been wanting a new concealer. I keep eyeing the Nars Soft Matte concealer.
1. French braid or high pony? I can’t French braid for the life of me so high pony it is!
2. What time did you get up this morning? 7:00! My daughter is sick so no school for her and that means I’m working from home today so no commute!
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner? I go back and forth. Sometimes just a thin line on top, sometimes top and bottom and sometimes none at all!
4. Something that made your heart sing recently? I mentioned to my 16 year old that I liked a necklace she has so she bought one for me! It was so sweet!
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag? I really need to find a good sunscreen….maybe a tinted one!
1. French braid or high pony? I just got a longish pixie haircut this weekend so neither for me. DD is pretty good at French braiding her own hair.
2. What time did you get up this morning? Woke up at 5:20, then moved to living room sofa where I fell back asleep until a little after 6am.
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner? I have small, extremely hooded eyes, so I only wear it above my upper lashes.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently? Spending last weekend in Chicago with DD. It was cold, it was windy, it snowed! It was fun. I got to tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie house which is right across the street from DD’s office.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag? Nothing. I have plenty of color products and I just repurchased a bottle of Kiehl’s Micro-Dose Anti-Aging Retinol Serum.
1. French braid or high pony? French braid if my hair was still long enough
2. What time did you get up this morning? Woke up at 7 but I’m sick so I’m still in bed
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner? I don’t wear eyeliner
4. Something that made your heart sing recently? I connected with my 17 yo nephew (whom I haven’t seen in a while) and discovered he listens to the same music I listened to when I was his age. It’s not mainstream and some bands are downright obscure but we had a whole conversation about it over dinner. It was like talking to an old friend, and I was blown away!
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag? I’d like some new lipsticks from Chantecaille
1. French braid or high pony?
I can’t remember when my hair was long enough for either, lol.
2. What time did you get up this morning?
9am. I’m a late owl.🦉
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner?
I never really got the hang of doing it properly, so I just let it go.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently?
I was talking to my oldest niece on the phone and heard the youngest one (18 months) complaining in the background. She sounded like a cranky chipmunk. The oldest gave this huge sigh and said to the baby “Not every phone call is for you!” The baby was mad because she could hear me and why wasn’t Lala handing over the phone!!?? It was so funny and silly.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag?
I recently discovered wiry grey hairs in my brows, so I’ve got to find something that will cover those bad boys up.
1. French braid or high pony? High Pony.
2. What time did you get up this morning? 6 a.m. since it’s a workday.
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner? Pencil at the lashline, then slightly smudge with a Q-tip.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently? Watching our senior rescue Lab ride her “escalator” into the house. At 10 she got severe arthritis in a hip. We live in a bungalow with steep stairs to get into the house which sits up off ground level over the windowed basement) She couldn’t climb them. My husband, an engineer, got some wood and a winch and built an escalator so she can ride from the fenced yard up and down into the house. She loves it, and can now go out to play or potty without pain.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag? I actually need a new bag! My Honua ones keep disappearing (teenage granddaughters . . . . ._)
1. French braid or high pony? French braid, but my hair is short enough now that it’s difficult.
2. What time did you get up this morning? Depends. If you count getting woken up by cramps at 2:30 AM, then that time. I was up for about 45 minutes then back to sleep until my alarm at 5:17 AM.
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner? Usually tightline with shadow and an angle brush and no wing. My eyes are very round so most wings look odd.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently? Unfortunately nothing. My should-have-been-peaceful WFH day Friday got sidetracked mid-morning by some work BS. From then until 4:15 PM today, it was damage control. Luckily the meeting at the end of this wasn’t a complete cluster, so things are looking up for the rest of the week.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag? Most of my lipstick at this point. I haven’t been wearing it much since the start of the pandemic and have been weeding out. I think I have 6-7 left and some probably still need to go.
1. French braid or high pony?
French braid — so pretty!
2. What time did you get up this morning?
Around 8AM. That’s my usual time now but it’s surprising I was able to wake up after dealing with kidney stone pain in the wee (ha!) hours of the morning.
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner?
I usually use dark brown eyeshadow on an angled brush and just trace outside the upper lash line. My eyes are small and hooded.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently?
My cousin and his wife stopped for a visit on their way back from Florida. Mom is now in decline at home hospice, but was awake and able to listen to their anecdotes and look at pictures on the phone. She sleeps most of the time now, so it was amazing to see her smile.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag?
Lipstick. Most of the ones I own are probably stale at this point. I stopped using them at the height of the pandemic and haven’t taken it back up since I’m now living with elderly parents and therefore masking up when I venture out.
Sorry about your mother’s health decline. I’ve been there. Keep strong.
Thinking of you, your mom and your family, Susan.
1. French braid or high pony?
High pony is reminiscent of “I Dream of Jeannie” so I can’t help but love it.
2. What time did you get up this morning?
745. Fifteen minutes later than I should have.
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner?
I like a jet black thin line.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently?
Seeing my sons reading Highlights magazine together. They’re usually screaming at each other so any peaceful, cooperative moments are appreciated. Greatly.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag?
Blotting papers.
1. French braid or high pony? Braid, I think. I’ve never been able to get a ponytail to stay up on the back of my head. I think you have to make it very tight for that, and that’s not good for your hair – high tension on hair has been proven to cause it to fall out. I’ve seen “too-high” hairlines on people who’ve worn their hair that way for a long time.
2. What time did you get up this morning? Woke up around 4:00 AM, but didn’t get out of bed until much later. They say that everyone wakes up around 3:00-4:00 in the morning, but when you’re young you go back to sleep so quickly, you don’t even remember that you woke up. As you get older, you become rather wide awake, and if you have problems (and who doesn’t, really?), you start thinking about them, and it becomes next to impossible to get back to sleep.
3. How do you like to wear your eyeliner? Thin line top lid, sometimes smudged, and only use a light line of eyeshadow on about 1/2 or so of the lower eyelid. I never use it on the inner rim, as that is bad for your eyes and would bother me like crazy, I think.
4. Something that made your heart sing recently? I’m not really sure my heart is capable of that anymore, I’ve been through so much, and I’m still in mourning. It does cheer me a little to watch the birds at my feeder and birdbath. In the next month, there should be a lot of migratory birds passing through to better climates up north.
5. Something you need to replace in your makeup bag? Probably nothing. I do have a lot of eyeliners that probably aren’t good enough to keep anymore.