Gloss Over

Do you ever throw some shorts on and run out the door only to notice a few minutes later that your white legs are looking worse than normal because they are ashy, nasty dry?  Then you frantically search your purse for lotion to remedy the situation but find nothing.  Normally you wouldn't mind such bad looking legs but on this particular day, you might be in public where ashy legs may just catch someone's eye. 

What to do?  Hmm... how about take some lip gloss out of your purse, wipe some on your hands and smooth it into your thirsty legs.  But since lip gloss doesn't spread easily, you might get some sticky, shiny patches between the deserts of dry skin; thus, attracting more attention to your stubbly, dry, sticky, shiny, pale legs.  Maybe using a tinted lip gloss would help the legs look a bit tanner (in some patches)...

Lip gloss has also been known to calm a stray hair and add an oily sheen to already pathetic looking hair.

It is unlikely you will read about these "quick fixes" in your beauty magazine.  But sometimes desperate is desperate. 

If you are taking your beauty tips from me, I would feel quite amazed (and perhaps a bit sorry for you).  Maybe I should send a copy of this over to Redbook.