Make-Up For Work

I spend a good 20% of my working day wishing that I didn't have to work with food, and that I could swan around my workplace with my beautifully painted nails and my hair sleek and straight. Instead I have to improvise, placing more emphasis on perfecting my eyebrows, or getting my double winged eyeliner neat and tidy than my entire outer appearance. For when you wear a uniform that makes you look like you've been lifted from the pages of the Where's Wally? Annual 2013 your face matters to you, it's the only bit of self identity worth beautifying. Well, it feels like this to me anyway. 

Whether it's a 4:45 AM wakeup call for a 6 AM start, or a 3 PM date with my mirror before a graveyard slot shift from 4 PM until 1AM I will, without fail, apply some sort of 'face'. This is just my thing, a getting ready for work ritual that, all things considered, I take far too seriously. After all, it's just burgers and chips, right?

Knowing that I have, in my opinion, a perfectly applied face for work makes me feel better about myself, which in turn, I believe, makes me do my job better. I always feel naked without my wings (thank goodness for L'Oreal Superliner!), my cheeks are pale and bare without a hint of highlight and blush (I'm thanking Benefit's Fine One One for an all round fabulous cheek pick me up where work is concerned), and my lips always look like they're crying out for a bit of attention unless they've got a wash of colour on them (thanks be to Rimmel here).

Perfecting my face makes me feel like, well, me in a sea of green and yellow fellow McWorkers and I continue to pine for the day when someone gives me the go ahead to hang up my McHat and try something new...I've got a nail technician on standby...!

Do you wear makeup to work? What kind of rules does your company have for your appearance?