Beauty...inside and out!

This past week, I had the delightful opportunity to assist in a local community event that partners pre-teen/early teen girls and guys with local stores that give them the chance to break away from the norm of every day life, shake things up, and have a little fun.

I was asked to come, as Miss Crowley's Ridge, and assist with the young ladies who came into our main street store Me and My Sister/Merle Norman (Clothing, accessories, makeup...), in giving them makeovers! Let me say, over the next hour and a half, I gained a much deeper respect for the task our fabulous makeup/hairdressers at Miss Arkansas daily undertake in prepping us to look our absolute best.

There were 12 young ladies that participated and three of us doing the makeovers, so I had the chance to work with several of them and we truly had a great time. Talking, laughing, and me fixing my uh-oh's with my "MAGIC CREAM" (some skin lotion that was particularly adept at removing wayward mascara!

Here are some pictures of us:

This sweet girl was my second makeover to do and I was so happy that she was pleased with the end result; as was I.

This young lady, at 13, told me she was always used to doing her own makeup, almost daily, so I was a little nervous about meeting her expectations. However, when I was finished she was quite pleased! (and I was relieved, lol)

This lovely girl reminded me of my own sister, Mercy, as, even without heels on, she is just as tall as me! (Thanks goodness for that crown, giving me a couple extra inches!)

This sweet young girl, overheard me telling someone else who I thought their "Celebrity look-a-like" was and insisted I come up with one for her as well. So, I settled on Maggie Gylenhaal.

This young lady was my final charge, and biggest challenge. She, and it seemed her friends as well, didn't think she was the "type" for makeup. She told me

her favorite pastimes were skateboarding, playing the drums, and basketball. So, as I began applying her foundation, ten other eager faces crowded around wondering how this was going to turn out. And, my young muse, although she laughed it off, seemed rather skeptical as well.

However, in the end, we were triumphant, and everyone was truly delighted (and not surprised at all...of course)

As the event came to a close, I gave each of the young ladies homemade sugar cookies shaped like lips with a verse attached to the outside that looked like this:

It reads: Proverbs 6:8 ...I open my lips to speak what is right.

With this, I hope to remind each of these young ladies that beauty is not only found on the outside, but by what comes from the inside as well.