The perfect shade.

Everyone has something that they just cannot collect enough of. My "treasure" is lipstick. This is quite humorous because I rarely wear any. I have about 30 different kinds in all colors and all forms. There is glossy, glittery, satin finish, semi permanent, bold, barely there and lip plumping gloss. I am addicted.

This morning I actually wanted to put on lipstick and when it took me 8 minutes to choose a color I realized that I had a problem. Why do I have so many? I pondered.....

I have come to the realization that my lipstick purchases are like my life. I am searching for the perfect shade. Out of all the colors I have there is not one single color that screams "perfect". They are too orange or too dark or too red and it goes on and on. In all of my collection there is not a single one that is "the" one. Every time I see a new shade I snatch it up and take it home and try it with hopes that this will be "it" only to suffer through another disappointment. Perhaps I am searching for something I already have? Perhaps if I took a couple and mixed them together they would be the perfect shade?

Such is my life. There is not one thing that is perfect. When I focus on the negative of each part it leaves me searching for more. Even though there are many bits and pieces that are not quite right, if I took the best part of each one and combined them perhaps it would be "just right".

My lipstick cannot be one shade that goes with everything, but a combination of shades that change with time.....just like the color of my life.

I just glanced in the mirror and I kind of like this shade after all! :)