do i have your attention?

…needless to say, I started to get the boys in my class attention, but unfortunately it wasn’t because I looked pretty with the new makeup set I got for my birthday. I remember so vividly, it was a brisk November day, I know this because the teacher had all the windows open. She would leave them open all year round because she would say “we need the fresh air to kill all your nasty germs, I’m not getting sick from you kids this year!” She was ruthless. my desk happened to be right next to the window, lucky me. But I didn’t mind so much because the boy I liked sat right across from me. Well one day while in class, the teacher was asking questions and required class participation. I was a shy girl who never said much, didn’t have the confidence to believe in my own intelligence, and hardly participated in class in fear that I would say the wrong thing, but when the teacher asked the next question I thought I knew the answer, so I raised my hand and she picked on me to respond. Well, I didn’t even get the chance to utter any words before she pulled me by the arm into the center of the classroom to get a closer look at my face, to see that I had mascara and eyeliner on. She asked if I was wearing makeup and my initially reaction was to say “no.” She then ran into the hallway and pulled another teacher from her class room and said, “I must be blind, Rachel tells me she’s not wearing makeup, is she wearing makeup, you tell me?” and the other teacher respond, “yes, it looks like she is” so then I was walked to the girls room where I had to scrub my eyes with cold water and a brown paper towel until my eyes were red. I was so embarrassed, but I fought back tears. Although come to think of it had I started to cry the makeup probably would have come off a lot easier! From then on I never wore makeup to school again… or did I? (read more: the birth of the wingtip eyeliner)