High Impact Mascara
Clinique high impact mascara?
Makeup-Clinique--- Beware! If any of you ladies decide to wear clinique's High Impact mascara!! I wore twice brand new out of box and each time developed pink eye----.......severe!!! Seems it has fibers in it that build the lashes and if you decide to close your eyes or any of these particles enter the eye --- they scratch the cornea and can cause severe infection.... was told to stay with naturally glossy, they have no fibers!!... been a user of clinique now 15 years... never had a problem until I used this "Clinique High Impact Mascara"
I'm a Clinique user as well. As you may know since you are a Clinique user, you sometimes get free goodies if you spend more than a certain amount. Well, I got free goodies that included the high impact mascara and another mascara made by clinique. I have to say everytime I would put that on my eyelashes got very irritated(it was brand new). My eye would get dry and red, so I had to stop using it. Another thing I that people might think twice before buying is Clinique's 3 Step Cleanse, I used it and it made my face breakout really bad. You would think after spending 90 dollars it would help, but now I'm back on Proactive. On the mascara I now use the usual which is maybeline for my eyelashes. I do use clinique's foundation, lip stick, blush, and even lip gloss. I'm glad you pointed this out...I thought it was only me.
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It was Saturday morning and I was spending the weekend at my daughter's. I was sitting on the floor in front of a mirrored closet door in my five-year-old granddaughter's room. She had asked me to put my make-up on in her room while she got dressed. I was happy to agree.
I had already put my contacts in, and my granddaughter was watching me put on my mascara. She wears glasses and, two weeks earlier, had firmly vowed that she was never, ever going to wear contacts. The idea of putting something in her eyes grossed her out!
Naturally, I was surprised when she said, "I'm going to get contacts." Curious about this sudden change of heart, I asked her why she wanted contacts. "Because I look dumb in glasses," she said sadly. (If you want to break a grandma's heart, that is about all you need to say.)
I wanted to scoop her up in my arms, give her a giant hug, and wash away the obvious hurt. But, I had been an elementary school bullying prevention consultant for several years, and knew I'd better find out what was behind this, if I was going to be of any help.
I kept my cool and asked, "Why do you think you look dumb in glasses?"
"Because Jessica said so," she blurted out.
It turns out Jessica sat next to her in kindergarten and had started whispering in Hannah's ear, "You look dumb in glasses." Nothing like this had ever happened to Hannah before and she had no idea what to do, thought it was true, and had not told anyone until now.
Before I learned how to handle bullying, I would have stormed into the classroom, insisted the teacher do something about this and let Jessica's mom know exactly what her daughter was doing.
That might have made me feel better, but it would not have helped my granddaughter. It could make her dependent and send the message she wasn't okay, but needed someone to rescue her.
I had learned that most bullying is done because of the reaction it gets. Jessica was getting exactly what she wanted. Hannah was sad and felt hurt when Jessica teased her.
I knew that my telling Hannah she didn't look dumb in glasses would not help much. She needed outside proof too.
There were two parts to the problem. The first step was to have Hannah really feel inside that she looked fine with her glasses. The next step was to help her figure out how to respond to Jessica's taunts.
It turns out, one of the best selling singers in the world(sold over 250 million disks), and a favorite of mine, Nana Mouskouri, wears thick, black framed glasses. She has them on in every picture I have ever seen of her.
I told Hannah about Nana Mouskouri, that she is very famous, people think she is beautiful and she wears glasses too, just like Hannah. That very morning we went to the music section of Border's Bookstore, looked at the CD covers of Nana Mouskouri with her glasses on. We even bought one of her CDs. My granddaughter was enchanted and played the CD like crazy. Luckily that did the trick for feeling better about wearing glasses (Later on I showed her a section of the Today show when Katie Couric was wearing her glasses on national television.)
The next step was to help her learn how to effectively respond to Jessica the next time she taunted her.
That night, after her bedtime story, when the lights were out, we gently talked about Jessica's teasing. We went over that it wasn't very nice to say mean things and what she might say to her. We had fun going over not so nice things to say and respectful ways to react.
She decided the next time Jessica whispered in her ear, "You look dumb in glasses", she would turn to her and say, in a respectful voice, "You may think so, but I don't." We role-played it several times so Hannah could get used to saying it.
The following Monday afternoon, I was thrilled with the message I got on my cell phone voice mail. Hannah was almost bubbling over as she said, "Grandma, it really worked!" I still have that message.
Or course, I had gone over all of this with my daughter who approved whole heartedly. But what really knocked me out was when my daughter told me what Hannah's teacher, Mrs. Black said.
It turns out, Mrs. Black had been concerned because Hannah seemed depressed recently in school. Hannah had never been that way before and Mrs. Black figured it was because Hannah had been moved to a higher reading group and missed her friends.
Mrs. Black had decided to move Hannah back to the lower reading group that Monday. However, when Hannah came to school her old cheerful self, she decided there was no more problem. And there wasn't! (By the way, I also gave Mrs. Black some ideas on classrooms lessons to reduce teasing.)
The most important lesson Hannah learned was that she has the power to solve problems. That increased her self-esteem more than any comfort or praise her mother or I could have ever given her.
As parents, you want to protect your children from hurt. But, you can't always be there to help. The best way to watch over your children is to teach them skills for handling problems effectively.
By doing that you can give them the most important skill they will ever have - the gift of a Can-Do Attitude which will protect them even when you aren't there!
Also, did you know that one type of praise can produce self-defeating behavior and anxiety, while another can move your kids to positive action? Changing a few words can make a night and day difference in your child's life.
If you like to get started learning how to give praise that motivates positive action while building self-esteem and confidence in your child please download my FREE Report on "The Amazing Impact of Effective Praise" at: http://www.basiclifeskillsforchildren.com/amazingpraise
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