Julia in Makeup

Saturday Julia had her dance pictures taken. Her recital isn't for another month, but they do the pictures early enough so we get them before classes end for the year. We have had her costume for a few weeks, but she really wasn't interested in trying it on for more than 1 minute, because it was scratchy. I was worried that the pictures were going to be a disaster.

That was before I realized that she was going to get to wear makeup. She was so jazzed about getting to wear makeup that I could have wrapped her body in steel wool. We started to get ready about an hour and a half before we needed to go, because I was still anticipating disaster. O put her hair in hot rollers (a first) and then applied her makeup. Not really sure how much to put on or how to do it for a 4 year old. I didn't want her to look like a Jon Benet or versions of Lib and I as kids when our mom did our makeup for our dance recitals. Back then, there wasn't as much concern about what people would think about the kids makeup, what kind of parents you were, what creep was ogling your baby in drag. My mom piled on the makeup on us and i remember my face hurting from it all. I didn't want Julia's first experience with makeup to be that...so i toned my inner Maggie (my mom) down.

The end result was perfect. Did I mention that while I was trying to get her ready, Kurt was running in a 5K? Jimmy was running around acting crazy, Julia was having a hard time sitting still. Thank GOD for TV. The only snag was when Kurt came home and Julia was not listening and she got yelled at and started to cry....but she had full makeup on. I got her to stop before too much damage was done, but it came in the form of a Happy Meal Promise.

So, here is out little Living Doll...