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[quidditchgrrl]

It's funny what you can glean from some small thing left behind.

We've had a makeup bag in lost and found since June 28. I'd put a note on it that I would take the bag if it was unclaimed, and lo, today said bag was on my desk.

It's a plastic bag, black and white plaid, the kind you can pick up at Target for $4. Inside were the beauty products of a young teenage girl:

An Estee Lauder eyeshadow case, empty of both eyeshadow and applicator, and a Lancome travel mirror. Probably castoffs from mom, although I'm not sure why she would need what essentially amounts to two mirrors;

Things that she might have bought herself - a Wet n Wild creme shadow in Iced Out, a silver shade that is only worn by 13-year-olds or old Jewish ladies, and a cheap roll-on cologne scented "Ocean Song". The side of the bottle says, "Pray for Peace" and is just one step up from patchouli. Two stained sticks of Chapstick, a staple of young girls everywhere (at least until they can afford better).

Two tubes of mascara, one for thickening and one for separating/lengthening - I can only imagine the kind of raccoon eyes this girl might have been sporting. Maybe she got one from her mother, if it clumped too much.

Hollister August fragrance for girls, which might have been a Christmas gift and smells vaguely of the Debbie Gibson Electric Youth perfume that was so popular fifteen twenty years ago.

And a tube of bubblegum pink Clinique glossware for lips, which matches the stains on the Chapstick tubes. I wonder: did she use the Chapstick to tone the shine down, then?

I don't exactly know what this all means about this girl's life, but I know what it says about me: I spend way too much time analyzing other people's lives.

Comments

[sproutgirl.livejournal.com]

Ahem. Electric Youth was seventeen years ago. At least the album was, so one can assume the perfume was as well. I know because I was eleven and the biggest Debbie Gibson fan on the west coast.

And yes, I really am that much of a dork.

[leftsockarchive.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was seventeen years ago. LOL, I was going to say that in my comment.

I think I still have a small bottle of it!

Feel the power and see the energy...

:)

[evelynnash.livejournal.com]

I totally used to wear silver lipstick over red lipstick in high school. And I remember people complimenting me on it. What is WRONG with teenagers?

[quidditchgrrl.livejournal.com]

Other than being slightly annoying and having deeply repulsive fashion sense?

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Yes, you do :D *giggles*

[azurerose.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I always did like the smell of Electric Youth... too bad I was allergic to it.

It is interesting to look through other people's stuff, though, isn't it? We did that at my last job, with the lost-and-found (to try and find out whose stuff it was). Got some cute stickers and blue glitter nailpolish out of some tweenie's purse... :)