Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “fan.” Use it by itself or find a word that starts or ends with it. Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!
Fantastic prompt word form our Linda, don’t you think?
Hmmm, gotta say, I love a fan. You know the folding ones that you can spread out and use in the heat. Because, God knows, I am not great with heat. Yup, this is the girl who slowly melts as the temperatures go up.
Make up and I are not fans of each other in the heat. either. I always remember the makeup artist on my wedding day. She tried her hardest to convince me that I needed A-grade cement filler style foundation, because of all the lights and cameras that would be on me.
(She’s not wrong. An Indian wedding is nothing short of a Bollywood film in the making, when it comes to the filming, and the guests like the couple’s fans. Equipment may be smaller and more advanced now, but then, nearly twenty years ago, there were cameera men with huge cameras hoisted upon shoulders, or on tripods, big lights set up, and photographers too. The amount of times people would get angry as the film-maker was more intent on getting the ‘take’ right, rather than actuall allowing a wedding to take place smoothly! Thank goodness there is more discretion, nowadays!)
Anyway, back to my story. I knew that, despite the wedding being in November, the heat of the lamps, and all those guests in one place, would result in whatever face I had painted on, sliding down my own face, and coming to rest somewhere around my neck. So I refused, buying my own lightweight base, thank you very much!
All’s well that ends well. The makeup stayed on pretty solidly, my skin could still breathe and I only lost one of my false eyelashes, at 9pm that night, after crying so much at the departing scene of the movie wedding.
Fan-bloody-tastic!
But I Smile Anyway... 
Jun 07, 2020 @ 18:07:21
What a wedding,Sis! You should publish a VidCap. 😉 You don’t really have to make up?
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Jun 07, 2020 @ 18:46:43
😂😂😂
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Jun 08, 2020 @ 11:23:35
:-)) And later add the belly-dance one.
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 21:03:02
Now I’m imagining your wedding as a huge Bollywood dance number, which I’m sure it wasn’t (your wedding probably didn’t show as much restraint…)
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 21:33:44
He he! There was an element if the showmanship;!!
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 18:10:52
Thanks for sharing your day, Ritu.
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 18:40:30
Thanks John!
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 22:10:20
😊
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 16:58:54
It depends on the kind of make-up. My sister uses an airbrush make-up for the brides. She put it on me and my daughter too at her wedding. And it stayed perfect all day until I got home at 3 am. A very natural look and super comfortable on the skin!
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 17:00:11
They didn’t have that as an option for us nearly 20 years ago sis!!! 😘
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Jun 08, 2020 @ 10:38:10
I know, sis, I did not have it either almost 27 years ago… lol. I just thought, I’d share it 😉
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Jun 08, 2020 @ 16:53:27
🙂
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 10:23:14
I’m not a fan of makeup either
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 10:34:14
Only in extreme circumstances!
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 17:43:11
Same here!
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 09:49:15
Sounds like a wonderful day, Ritu. Beautiful memories.
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Jun 06, 2020 @ 09:49:57
It was, Robbie 🥰
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