Laura Kennedy: In an ideal world, we would get the sleep we need – but if you’ve had a bad night, these gels, creams and concealers work wonders
When I look tired but would prefer not to, I want products that will simply erase the visual evidence of my bad choices. Photograph: GettyIn an ideal world, we’d get the sleep we need. I can imagine the guffaws emitting from a variety of people reading that sentence. Any parent of small children. People who work nights. People undergoing stressful life changes or health issues. Even people who are just a bit hungover, or who make other regrettable life decisions, as I did last Wednesday evening.
The next morning, my husband greeted me when I reeled into the kitchen with words a man will only say to his wife 10 years in: “Are you sick? Your eyes look all dark and sunken.” The question hit me like a chilled water balloon to the face. “Ah,” I thought, “what a day to have to take a new passport photo.”
The cavernous eye sockets, the cheese sandwich, the indecorous husband – all of these are choices I’ve knowingly made. There was nothing I could do about the sandwich. I explained polite restrictions around human conversation to my husband, and for the tired eyes I went straight to what I think of as “firefighting products”.
Now look, there’s nothing wrong with being tired, or looking it. It happens to all of us for good reasons and bad . However, when I look tired but would prefer not to – special occasions, interviews, new passport photo day – I want products that will simply erase the visual evidence of my bad choices. That day, I wanted a face that did not say “I was kept awake most of the night by cheese”.
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