Ginger Garrett

This Thursday, the 22nd, I’ll be chatting it up with Atlanta’s favorite radio morning show hosts, Kevin & Taylor In the Morning. We’re talking about Sunday morning emergencies. If you’ve got to get everyone out of the house on time and looking good, conditions are ripe for snafus to surface.

Here are a few time-tested tips to help you get out the door for church without losing your testimony:

SUNDAY MORNING EMERGENCIES

Traveling doing media I needed an emergency kit to handle any last minute disaster. Then I noticed I was raiding it when I was at home, too.  Emergencies always happen when you need to get the whole family out the door at the same time.

It’s a good idea to put the kit in one spot where everyone knows where it is because you don’t always want to be interrupted to handle minor emergencies

 

What to Keep In Your Emergency Kit:

Double sided fashion tape (available at Wal-Mart in the lingerie department)

Safety pins in different colors

Lint roller

Baby wipes
BOUNCE dryer sheets

SHOUT stain wipes

Scissors

Hairbrush

Superglue

Q-tips

 

Keep your emergency kit in the car for those last minute, “I’ve got to fix this!” nightmares.

 

Here are a few tips for common annoyances:

 

NECKLINE OR SHIRT THAT GAPS OPEN?

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Texas we had a saying growing up: if it’s not for sale, don’t advertise it

The problem with using a safety pin to hold a neckline closed is that it always seems to pucker a bit and be an obvious problem. I like to use a post earring on top of the safety pin to make it look a bit more glamorous and disguise the safety pin.

If you inherited any clip-on earrings from Grandma, these work, too.

 

BRA STRAP THAT KEEPS SLIPPING AND SHOWING

You can use double-sided tape to keep it in place but the trick is to remember to stick the tape in between the garment and the bra strap. Don’t try to tape the strap to your skin—natural oils can make the tape less effective

I don’t recommend trying to safety pin the strap to your shirt because when you move, it can pull and rip the shirt.

 

DOG HAIR
Dog lovers swear by Bounce dryer sheets—not only for repelling hair but for getting it off. Use them in the dryer as well as emergency “wipes” to remove dog hair

LOOSE BUTTONS

            If you see a button is about to come off, you can use a little superglue dabbed on with a Q-tip, or clear nail polish, to seal the loose threads and keep the button on .

 

Blemishes that appear overnight

Consider adding a blemish concealer stick into your Sunday morning emergency kit: a blemish stick combines blemish medication plus a concealer. They’re great to have on hand. Find them at WalMart, Target, anywhere skin care products are sold

If you don’t have one handy and you need a short term fix, you can conceal it if you know the right order for foundation and concealer. For blemishes, you work backwards: it’s foundation first, then concealer.

First, apply a light layer of foundation over the blemish using a sponge or brush, a light dusting of powder, and then apply a light layer of concealer over that.

If you apply concealer first, it tends to slide off, because blemishes are warmer than the rest of your skin. All the blood is drawn to the inflammation, which makes that little bit of skin warmer than the surrounding skin, and it can melt concealers off.

 

 

Undereye circles

Our eyes give everything away: if we’ve been up too late, or trapped in a room with cigarette smoke, or we watched Terms of Endearment before bed, our eyes will look terrible the next day. So these are a few beauty tips that actually work:

 

1. This first one is a redneck beauty tip for puffy eyes. Get two spoons and pop them in the fridge for a minute or two, then press them against your closed eyes. The cool metal will go to work immediately reducing puffiness and irritation and I promise…you’re going to look silly but feel so much better.

 

2. If you have trouble with undereye circles a lot, you need to keep on hand a color corrector. You buy it in the makeup section of any big retailer. It looks like a tube of concealer, but it has a yellow tone. That’s because yellow cancels out the dark blue circles. But the trick is in the application: you want to make sure you apply a moisturizer first so the concealer glides on and doesn’t look gloppy. Use just a little concealer, and then Put your normal foundation or powder over this with a light touch.

 

 Email me with your own tips and I’ll post them next week!