school picture day
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| Thu, 09-21-2006 - 1:38pm |
Today is school picture day for my 16 yo DSD (since my DD is a senior, they had to take special pics. over the summer to be ready for the yearbook). My DSD's picture outfit (of course you can only see the shirt) is a black T shirt since she wears black almost every day. Last night she asked to go to the drug store to get mascara, so I took her. Instead she picked out eye shadow that was almost black. Now mind you, she has red hair (a very pretty color), brown eyes and pale skin w/ freckles. I told her that the eye shadow was a little dark for her coloring and she might end up looking like she was ready for Halloween. Her response is "but I like it." She also does the heavy eyeliner. When she first started to wear eye makeup, I bought her eyeliner and mascara in brown, which looked better than black. Other than the makeup and T shirts, she hasn't really adopted the rest of the Goth look. I just saw the back of her this a.m. as she was running out for the bus, so I don't know how the makeup looked. I guess we shall see when the pics come back.
I can't make a big deal about this. Maybe years from now, she will look back at those pics and think "what was I thinking?" or maybe she'll like them. The other day she was asking her dad if she could get her upper ear or eyebrow pierced and he didn't look too happy. The funny part, that I couldn't wait to point out to him, is that he has quite a few tattoos, including one from his much younger days, that's a skull w/ the word "rebel" on top of it, so he's really not one to talk, whereas I'm very conservative in my looks and dress. I would never think of getting a tattoo. He also used to have 2 earrings in one ear and had hair down to his waist when he was young. Then a couple of years ago, he had to have surgery and had to take the earrings out and since he couldn't move his arm up, he couldn't put them back in. I told him that a 50 yr. old man who now has short hair is really getting too old for earrings.
My friend's 20 yr. old son came home from college w/ both his ears pierced. She said at least it's better than a tattoo, cause the holes can close up.

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The question is do you regret not getting the senior pictures? Just make sure you take lots of pictures with her and dreds so that when she's the mother of a teen you can show them to her!
My oldest DD,14 brought her school pictures home yesterday. When I had to order them she wanted me to get the "air-brushed" pictures that took away the blemishes. She's got a little acne, not bad. It's improving as she's finally starting to cleanse her face better. I told her I wanted pictures to look like her, not like someone else. I wanted them to remind me of just how she looked, not how she wanted to look. She did at least put on the pretty blue shirt and the necklace we'd got her to match. She looks good in blue.
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