Make-Up

I would stand at the mirror and watch my mother put on bright red lipstick, pink rouge, dark brown eyebrow pencil (my eyebrows used to be like yours she said, to me, (like the Queen in Sleeping Beauty)), She put on dark eye shadow (I was her shadow). Her rouge was pink but she had olive skin. It was the wrong color!! But I couldn't say a word.

My first childhood memory of my step father from when I was two and a half and I distinctly remember looking up from the top of the landing as he folded his red tie.

 

I can't say what my first childhood memory is of my mother. I can but I won't.