Eco confessions

By Recycla

Recycla has talked here before about her continuing search for a really good eco mascara.  All she wanted was a mascara that didn’t contain parabens, didn’t give her raccoon eyes, and didn’t fade off within a couple of hours.  Is that too much to ask?

Apparently, it is.

Recycla has tried more than a dozen different eco mascaras in the past two years and has yet to find one that she likes 100%.  Sure, there were a couple that seemed to work this winter, but as soon as the weather warmed up, for some reason the black stuff started sliding down Recycla’s face.

Recycla is from the South.  Anyone who knows Southern women knows that, for the most part, we like our hair and makeup big.  Well, not like Tammy Faye Bakker, but we do like to look pretty.  Recycla doesn’t actually wear all that much makeup, but she does wear mascara because it makes her eyes look so great.

So, Recycla waffled and wavered and dithered and couldn’t figure out what to do.  The Mascara Situation was becoming an obsession and not one that Recycla felt was worth the time, effort, and money.  When she wrote her last post about mascara, Enviro Girl commented with this:

Gee, I appreciate what you’ve gone through to give me a review – I haven’t tried any paraben free mascara because no one seems to have one that works. And I justify my eco-sin by telling myself that “It’s just a few daubs of mascara – it’s not like I’m lathering all over my body like LOTION!!!” Truly, in the grand scheme of things, I can live with this crime.

Suddenly, Recycla saw the light.  She realized that she had forgotten the mission of this blog:  To save Planet Earth one day at a time and one act a time and that it shouldn’t be difficult.  The Eco Women keep reminding their readers that no one is perfect, nor should they strive to be.  We all should do what we can to save Planet Earth but, if we can’t do something, it’s okay.  Just move on and try something else.

Once Recycla had her epiphany, she walked that very day to a nearby drugstore and bought a fabulous tube of very black mascara.  She unwrapped it in the car and applied it while looking in her rearview mirror.  Ahhhh…

Recycla’s 40th birthday was a few days after this incident and, maybe it’s because of the mascara or maybe not, but turning 40 wasn’t all that bad.