Rule #2: Wear Lipstick

Ladies,

Wear lipstick. Just do it. Every day. You look better with it on.
I know you have your excuses, but they're all rubbish.

To help, I have debunked a few common excuses for you:

1. "My man doesn't like it when I wear makeup."

Your man also thinks that your best look is that bright pink spandex shirt and a freakin' mini skirt. They also don't notice if you've chopped your hair off and died it black. The only reason that you think that they don't like lipstick is because you've asked them and they decided to give you the safe answer. Dudes don't know what they're talking about. So, sorry, not a good excuse.

2. "My man doesn't like to kiss sticky lips."

Lucky you that you kiss your man so much during the day that the thought of wiping off and reapplying your lipstick is just too much. Gibberish.

3. "I don't want to look too made-up. "

For this excuse, I will refer to one of my girl crushes:

Granted, it's Gwen, but look at her. Baby in hand, casually dressed, and bam! Red lips. But yet, it works, because it just looks so good. It will do the same for you. Really.

3. "I don't have the time to put on make up."

Whatever. Not possible. When your lips are chapped, do you have time to put on chapstick?

4. "I don't like make up."

No, you do. What you mean is, 1) You don't like the way foundation feels on your face, or 2) You don't know how to put makeup on correctly. That's another post. Either way, I'm just talking about lipstick.

Look, I'm doing you a favor. If you don't believe me, try the following exercise:

Get your best sweatpants/nasty hair look going on (best to try at end of day). Take a good look at yourself in the mirror or take a picture. Then, go and put on the darkest lip color you have or that shiny lipgloss that you save for going out. Now, go look in the mirror or take another picture.

Voila! Wow! Go Gwen! All I can do is look at your sexy lips! I didn't know your face was so thin!

Girls, just wear lipstick.

Rule #1: PowerPoint This!

You don't just whip out a PowerPoint presentation when you don't have to. Really.

Today I arrived at my career counseling class, psyched that I would blow away my "3 minute informal talk about someone who inspires you" speech with my wit, charm, and glossed lips. Until.

The first student gets up with a freakin' fifteen minute PowerPoint presentation, with tons of pictures and energetic segways into her points. AND THE PROFESSOR LOVED IT!

What the heck? Informal? Three-to-four minutes? How does that translate to fifteen minutes and twenty slides of graphs, photos and heart warming quotes?

So, I wait, hoping for a fellow student to have my back and get up there and wing it with a three minute speech about their father. Nope.

The next five freakin' students had PowerPoint and obviously had given it tons of preparation. The only student who did what was assigned told the story of his best friend who was some Olympic gymnast. Great. He took 3 mintues, but showed a youtube video of his best friend nailing the bars and winning the bronze in Beijing.

I started to sweat. How could this be happening to me? I am the best damn public speaker in this class. THIS WAS MY TIME TO SHINE!

But no. Less impressive speakers kicked butt with their stupid presentations. Don't they know it's more difficult to get one's point across in 3 minutes, and that's the challenge!

Fortunately, half the class took their fifteen minutes of fame, and now I have until next week to produce a youtube video or flowery presentation.

This brings me to the subject of my blog: THERE ARE RULES.

It's unspoken, but you don't just go above and beyond on an easy class assignment, because then everyone will be graded accordingly.