More Strange Beauty Tips

Well, "tomorrow" became Friday - and late on Friday at that. Those things happen. It wish they wouldn't, but they do.

Anyway, I promised you more last cheap beauty tips that a bride can make use of when things happen while she is getting ready for the big day and doesn't have time or doesn't want to spend all day running to the store for this or that.

• Straight Eyelashes? Find some waterproof mascara. Use your blow dryer to heat your eyelash curler. The heat will help your eyelashes to bend more easily and the waterproof mascara will hold the curl better than regular mascara.
• Crumbling Eyeliner? It can be incredibly frustrating when last minute wedding preparations are creating a general harried feeling all around a bride and her eyeliner pencil starts to fall apart. But don't worry. Simply have someone put it in the freezer for a quarter hour or so and go on with the rest of your preparations. When it comes out it should work just fine.
• Blotchy skin? A stressed bride is often horrified to wake up on the morning of the big day with blotchy irritated skin. Fortunately, the solution is as close as your kitchen cupboards. Get a tea bag of green tea, steep it for a couple minutes, let it cool for a couple minutes, then dab it all around the irritated areas. The antioxidants in the green tea work to reduce the inflammation.
• Unsightly Veins? Believe it or not, Preparation H will help. The reason is simple. It is a vasoconstrictor, if the veins shrink enough, no one will see them.
• Broken Blister? A dab of Listerine will cleanse the wound enough that you should be able to go about your business throughout the course of the wedding celebration.
• No Shaving Cream? It's not uncommon for a bride to get to the church only to be horrified to realize that she needs to touch up her shaving job (or do it all) but didn't bring shaving cream. In that case, she can substitute hair conditioner. It will provide the lubrication she needs and makes her skin feel silky smooth.
• Splinter? A splinter can be annoying and in a stressful situation like a wedding that little tiny piece of wood can be the figurative "straw that broke the camel's back". The solution? Just drop a dab of Elmer's glue on the splinter, let it dry then peel it off. In most circumstances it will take the splinter with it.

Ideally, no last minute disasters happen. But we don't live in an ideal world. It is wise for a bride to be prepared with a wedding day survival kit, but even with one tips like these can rescue a day from life's little annoyances and help a woman to present herself as the beautiful bride she always dreamed of being.