This or That: The Back-to-School Beauty Edition

How to play

Pick one or the other for each of the questions below, and copy/paste your answers in the comments. Can’t wait to see your picks! Mine are listed below.

This or That: The Back-to-School Beauty Edition

• First day of school: do you plan your outfit ahead of time, or wing it at the last minute?
• Bold lips on the first day: yes or no?
• If you said yes to bold lips, which would you rather wear: red or pink?
• Do you start off the school year with a totally new hairstyle, or do you keep the one you currently have?
• For picture day, do you wear your hair up or down?
• For picture day, do you wear your glasses, or do you take them off?
• What’s more important for your daily mid-morning touchup: powder or lipgloss?
• What’s more important for a daily afternoon touchup: hairspray or dry shampoo?
• Pick one: Caboodle or makeup bag?
• On the first day of school, would you rather wear a new pair of shoes that you haven’t broken in or a comfortable pair of extremely well-worn shoes you love?
• Perfume or fragrance on the first day: yes or no?
• Paint your nails for your first day: yes or no?

First day of school: do you plan your outfit ahead of time, or wing it at the last minute?

I’d plan it ahead of time. In fact, I’d plan out every outfit for every day of the whole week!

Bold lips on the first day: yes or no?

I’ve definitely done it before, so my answer is yes.

If you said yes to bold lips, which would you rather wear: red or pink?

Red, but with stipulations. It would have to be matte to reduce the likelihood of it smearing all over my teeth and face.

Do you start off the school year with a totally new hairstyle, or do you keep the one you currently have?

Keep the one I have. I’d save the dramatic change for the middle of the year to maximize the impact, ha!

For picture day, do you wear your hair up or down?

Down, no doubt! Wearing it up just seems like an invitation for something to go terribly wrong. I totally know my mane, and even if I cemented every stray hair into place with an updo, something would find a way to spring out.

For picture day, do you wear your glasses, or do you take them off?

I could go either way, but eh…I’d probably take ’em off so my winged liner could be recorded for posterity.

What’s more important for your daily mid-morning touchup: powder or lipgloss?

Lipgloss.

What’s more important for a daily afternoon touchup: hairspray or dry shampoo?

Hit those flat roots with some dry shampoo, baby! 🤗

Pick one: Caboodle or makeup bag?

Caboodle. Vintage. Pink and mint green.

On the first day of school, would you rather wear a new pair of shoes that you haven’t broken in or a comfortable pair of extremely well-worn shoes you love?

Back in the day, I would’ve suffered for great shoes. 👡

Perfume or fragrance on the first day: yes or no?

Sure, why not?

Paint your nails for your first day: yes or no?

Definitely, yes, and survey says it would be a last-minute mani completed right before bed the night before. 😁

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. Howdy, neighbor. I’ve got back-to-school on my mind right now because Connor’s first day of kindergarten is tomorrow, and I’m already feeling all the feels. 😿