03.25.03
An open letter to all snoopish little sisters of the world:
If you are going to go rooting through the cosmetics and skincare products of your elder sister(s), make sure to put things back where you found them, and take all evidence of the invasion with you.
Say, for example, you try on a bunch of someone else's lipsticks, make sure to twist them all back down into their containers before putting the lids back on them. Squished tops on a bunch of tubes of lipstick are a sure sign of incompetent tampering.
As are a bunch of lipstick-covered tissues and Q-tips sitting on the top of the garbage in the bathroom trash receptacle.
And if you find the only way to remove the dark reddish lipstick staining your lips, despite much rubbing of Q-tips and tissues, is to use a bottle of makeup remover that you found in the medicine cabinet that isn't yours, make sure to put the lid back on the bottle, secure it tightly, and then replace the bottle exactly where you found it.
Nothing else says, "A bored 11-year old on Spring Break has been rooting through my cosmetics and skincare!" quite like a bottle of Clinique makeup remover sitting on the edge of the sink, next to the bottle's lid, and a bunch of lipstick-covered tissues sitting in the trash.
If you don't snoop discretely at this age, you'll never move up to expertly rewrapping presents after peeping at their contents, or rooting through a loved one's pockets in search of loose change and other women's phone numbers.
And what fun is that?
What's in your head?