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It's my niece's wedding, and I treat myself to face painting – I never wear makeup – and hair tizzying. When I scrounge around online I have no idea how big a treat it would be. Abby of Finesse Makeup (http://finessemakeup.com/palm-cove-wedding-makeup-and-hair/) turns out to be a mobile operator and she comes to my cabin on the side of the hill with all her gear in a back pack. She straps her toolkit around her waist and begins brushing me over. Then the hairdresser arrives. So I sit in my eyrie and chat while the transformation takes place: hair and face simultaneously. My eyes are praised, and the softness of my hair (40% grey: I now have it on expert authority). Abby used to be a news journalist and made a career change when the pressure got too great: she runs, and the hairdresser is a serious cyclist. We chat and I realise that the planes do make a noise. I hadn't tried to talk over them before.
It took a lot of equipment to deal with my face, and perhaps I'll dare to flaunt the finished product, although I haven't quite mastered the art of the selfie: I look at the camera with too quizzically, and I'm too busy clicking to smile.
My niece invites me to join her and her bridesmaids for “some girly time”, an honour I wasn't expecting, so I set off for the Shangri-La Hotel and more new experiences. Kate is having false nails attached: the photographer is acrobating to take photos in a crowded room and trying desperately to find a place for the empty dress shot; the bride is keeping an anxious eye out the window on progress setting up the parkland venue; my six year old great-niece is flirting with the camera and enjoying her sparkly sandals (“Are those jewels real?”). The champagne begins to flow.
The ceremony takes place against the sky and the blue of Trinity Inlet, the speeches are made and the partying begins. My niece is now a married woman.
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I loved the very natural look your makeup artist gave you Meg you look lovely and hope you put some of the wedding photos on for us when they are available. Like you I never wear more than lippie when I go out but would love the opportunity to have a make over.
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It was an extravagance, but an experience (and an outcome) I wouldn’t have missed.
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Congratulations to your niece! You look gorgeous! You could try clicking a full length image in front of your mirror 🙂
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What do you do with the iPhone? Thanks for saying I look gorgeous. I was pretty pleased – spent more time in front of the mirror in self-admiration than I’ve spent anywhere near a mirror in a year!
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Well done for having all that pampering Meg! And I am quite grey now, but I have always said I will grow old disgracefully! Grey hair and no make-up, that’s me…other than on my wedding day. Must have transformed me, I recall my own father not recognising me…
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I haven’t used makeup since my eyesight deteriorated and I mascara-ed myself panda style. It was an experience I wouldn’t’ve missed. But not one I’ll repeat in a hurry.
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My hairdresser told me last week when I went in to have all my hair cut off that grey is the new fashion. #grannygrey – oh to be so young that it is only a fashion phase! And it does go very well with purple 🙂
Nice to have some pampering – I tried to arrange same for my son’s wedding but it didn’t happen.
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I’ve been waiting to grey, and fearful that I’d claim not to be when I fully was. Looking in mirrors isn’t something I do a lot of.
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You look very glam with your make up and hair Meg, you have such good grey tones. I would like to see your dress, gorgeous colour, any full photos?
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How do you take a full length selfie? There be some when the official wedding ones appear. Then you’ll be able to see that many sequin thingies came unstitched – a job for an idle moment!
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Thank you for sharing part of the wedding experience with us Meg. You have lovely hair and make-up, and I thoroughly approve of your dress, but I am not used to the serious you required by the effort to master the art of selfie, which I haven’t tried myself. What a delight to have people come to the cabin to do the pampering! By the way, in the Newcastle Herald today there was quite a long article on someone’s experience going to the reef the same day you went. I will try to save it via the website but if not the hard copy will be there for you to have eventually. Interestingly, the person said that once they were underwater, it was a different world in which everything was magnificent. They were lucky to be able to do that.
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It sounds as if he was diving – maybe it was him I saw from the semi-submersible, although he went with a different company. Wasn’t real keen on his smarty-pants style!
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Ah well, you know, it was written for the punters (admittedly but reluctantly including me) who read the Newcastle Herald, not a newspaper in the same league as the Sydney Morning Herald and Elizabeth Farrelly. I would rather have had a bit more about the reef itself given that it was so wonderful below the waves and less about the seasickness.
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