small girls 13 February 2009
My mate, and compadre in crime in OCTOBER, Vic Smurfit brought her eldest daughter into the theatre a few days ago as we were filming a piece for Irish tv news. It was fascinating to have a small person in particularly a little girl (she’s 4 years old). She loves pink, is the first thing that should be announced…BELIEVES in it, I think. She was also fascinated by our make up. She applied some for all of us but her Mum got the main attention, including some very garish lipstick. The Smallie thought her mother looked very pretty then though the adults had to admit that it was, erm, garish…Where did the divide in opinions happen and how did it come about? Is the Small girl just delighted with embellishment of any made-up sort? And where did she get this idea of beauty from? You’d have to wonder. I should also say that her Mum is not given to wearing garish make-up in general so she isn’t seeing this at home. Incidentally, she applied lipstick to herself too, on the mouth and quite a lot of her face also…again, it was deemed a success…And, no, none of the rest of us were doing our makeup like that so she wasn’t copying us. Mind you, she is only starting out so her aim may not be as true as us Oldsters (when sober, at any rate – drunkenly applied make-up is a whole other kettle of bitch). She is just getting the hang of putting it on, so that may have been a factor.
