Maryna thinks Erin really should try some lipstick.
We are four, maybe five drinks into the afternoon when
she decides this.
“Why you don’t wear leepsteek? You have beautiful leeps. Pearl, look me and tell me truthfully: does Erin have beautiful leeps?”
Erin grins at me from across the booth.
Galentine’s Day, 2013.
Sixteen women, sixteen cash cards.
I grin back at Erin.
“Erin’s leeps – hic! – lips are
like curvaceous little –“ I pause and
forget to start up again. I am looking
for something to convey the curving, plumpness of her lips but the only words
that spring to mind are “gummi worms” and “kiss cushions”.
This will not do.
I laugh to myself.
“I’ve tried wearing lipstick,” Erin says to the booth at
large. “It always gets on my teeth. I just pretty much stick to gloss.”
“You,” I say, cleverly pointing out the obvious and
chuckling to myself, “have to stop – hic! – applying it to your teeth. ’snot teethstick!”
Maryna regards me patiently. “No, my dear,” she says, “ees not teethsteek.” She and Erin share a smile, and I blink
heavily. Perhaps I should order a water…
Erin shakes a vigorous finger at me. “You,” she says.
Maryna and I both stop what we’re doing and stare.
“That’s all,” Erin says, waving her hand
dismissively. “Just YOU.”
These things are funny to us.
Maryna finishes applying the first color to Erin’s
lips. “You like?”
Erin pulls a compact from her purse, examines her lips in
the tiny mirror. “Wow. I love this.
Pearl, do you love this color?”
I, too, love the color, and signify so by nodding
drunkenly.
“Ees official,” Maryna says. “We loff first color. Mebbe we smoke now, come back and try another
color?”
And this is funny to us, too.
And you know why?
Because Happy Galentine’s Day, that’s why.
36 comments:
Happy Galentine's Day is good 'nuff for me. Sounds like you had a smashing time!
Galentine's Day needs to be an official holiday with it's own associated music, cards, and traditions.
I think you've already hit on one great tradition- the applying of a new lipstick color you've never tried.
Does it have to be an even 16 for the number of friends? Can it be on odd number and officially still be Galentine's?
Jacqueline, a good time was, as they say, had by all!
Shelly, oh, no. Any number of people can have a happy galentine's day. :-) There should, however, be lipstick.
That's exactly what you should discuss after 5 drinks. And laugh a lot.
Green Girl, :-) My thoughts exactly.
Laughter with gal friends is the best!!!! Happy Galentines Day!
The beret and lipstick, with sassy earrings are excellent! 5 drinks? Not so much. Lots of giggles--a wonderful event.
i can just imagine... :)
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Laugh drunkenly and the world laughs at you but you rarely get the joke. Nothing quite tops 16 drunken women. Drunk guys laugh a lot too but aren't as good company.
Happy Galentine's Day.
Hari Om
Both sets of lips looking very pretty. Am curious at there being more than one colour available for experiment... But then I'm the no makeup (deal with it) kinda face.
It sounds as though Pearl's lips may have been getting their colour from the inside "you -" &>
I don't get it. So, there was like a Saint Galentine? Fun post!
Galentine's Day ... what a great name and concept!
I love your last two lines. That is the essence of the silliness that happens when good-natured people get together for fun.
Glad you had a happy Galentine's Day!
I reckon (and I will be outnumbered by ten thousand million, I know) . . . if you have beautiful lips, you don't need lipstick.
Sounds like a good *hic* party! I'm on my way over, lipstick in hand!
I can't live without my lipstick, and I can only imagine how much fun you gals had on Galentine's day.
I LOVE this. “gummi worms” and “kiss cushions” I laughed out loud when I read this because it reminds me so much of something I'd think of :) Awesome post!
Hey, where's my marguerita?
Trick to avoid getting teethstick.
Apply lipstick.
Put index finger in mouth, purse lips around finger, pull finger out of mouth. Wipe excess lipstick of finger. Repeat if necessary.
You're welcome.
Don't you just hate it when the others can't seem to join in on your little conversation going on with your drink.
they should have a label on lipstick that says "do not apply to teeth, nose or forehead".
I want to celebrate Galentine's Day!
Um, why have I never heard of Galentine's Day? It really needs to be on the calendar or something...
Brilliant.
A good lipstick makes one feel pretty. Happy Galentine's Day.
I'm so glad I came here. I needed this just now.
"I pause and forget to start up again." Love this. I wish I'd been there, with my lipstick and Marna's cash card.
xoRobyn
Well now really....when else are you going to try a new lipstick, if not after a few drinks. Which may explain how it ends up on the teeth.....
The question is, "how was the day after Galentine's day?"
The line“gummi worms” and “kiss cushions” made me laugh. :D
Girls just wanna have fun.
"’snot teethstick!"
Heh! Well, I *was* have a dour day until I read this line. Thanks for the laugh!
I know how to prevent lipstick getting on the teeth.
Drunken women are one of my favourites...just listening to them is a joy and OH so funny. Drink up and have another Pearl.
I volunteer to be the "official" lipstick on the lips taste tester!
There are too many great lines here to single out just one. I've had lipstick on my teeth, but I didn't know whose it was or how it got there...
I am surprised that the lipstick was only on the lips!!!
"YOU"!! I like that! So many possibilities!!
Sounds like a great time was hard and as for lipstick on the teeth well I have never had that problem ever...........
Nowdays, 5 drinks and I wouldn't be able to see her "leeps" let alone give an opinion on them. The gals in my bunch are silly at 2 drnks, then we go home to sleep it off, Still as much fun though!
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