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"I&amp;#x27;m a faux stay-at-home mom because I work from home. Motherhood combined with an isolating job as a blogger is the perfect formula for frumpiness--well, not for me. I wear makeup every day. Why? Lately I&amp;#x27;ve been feeling very uneasy about my work situation. Freelance rates are either slashed in half or nonexistent. Check out this article from the LA Times (I cried). I&amp;#x27;m lucky to have consistent contracted gigs with glamour.com and babble.com, but nothing escapes the fact that I used to work full-time for a national magazine with excellent health benefits and a matched 401(k) (Oh, my sad, sad 401(k)). Something that makes me feel better when I feel like I&amp;#x27;m two steps away from falling over the cliff? Makeup. Is that silly? I find makeup to be energizing and a sort of antidepressant. When I look put-together, I feel better about everything (being single three days away from Valentine&amp;#x27;s Day, working as a freelance writer in a strained economy, the unwritten second book that swirls around in my brain, the inability to do more work because JD&amp;#x27;s naps are getting shorter and shorter). So despite that there are days when no one other than JD and his toy dinosaurs see my face, I still feel in control because I still look good. I don&amp;#x27;t look defeated. I haven&amp;#x27;t given up. I once saw an episode of Oprah where she asked a guest who was going through a rough time an eye-opening question. Oprah said, &amp;quot;Do you have your breath?&amp;quot; The guest said yes. Oprah said, &amp;quot;Take a breath--go from there.&amp;quot; I have my breath. And my makeup. Here we go...another day. Does this make sense to anyone? If you&amp;#x27;re wondering what my makeup regime is and if you too have the time to do your makeup and make sure your toddler doesn&amp;#x27;t bang his head into something, here you go (it takes under two minutes): I wear dark brown liner, a pinkish eyeshadow and black mascara. I usually go with a nude lip and just a swipe of peachy bronzer. I apply this after my morning shower at around 7:30 A.M when JD is watching Sesame Street and playing with his cars. When I emerge from the bathroom, JD says &amp;quot;Pretty Mommy&amp;quot; (LOL, when I pluck my brows, JD says, &amp;quot;Mommy hurt, no&amp;quot;). Does makeup make you feel better? What does your daily makeup regime look like? Are you a stay-at-home-mom who doesn&amp;#x27;t wear makeup anymore because you find it to be pointless? *** Enough with me, visit the real beauty experts here. I may be a SAHM + blogger but I refuse to wear shmeggings! Hey moms, check out these beauty tricks from models. *** More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow us on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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