In Which I Offer You Free Eye Shadow. No, Seriously.
I usually shy away from people who want to sing to my cervix. But occasionally, when those people come bearing cocktails, cheese and eye makeup I’m more inclined to listen. Last Monday at Grey Gallery was one of those nights.
Mona invited me to an evening of music, beauty and (drum roll? sad tuba?) cervical cancer prevention. The event was sponsored by Seattle Mom Blogs & Yellow Umbrella. I know what your thinking: I have no offspring of my own. Why am I going to events sponsored by women who blog who and are also mothers? But! I am a fan of offspring in general and my cervix specifically. I had to stop myself several times from apologizing for not reproducing at a faster rate. It wasn’t difficult. My mouth was full of gin.
Makeup artist Debra Macki was on hand to slap some delightful colors on my tired mug and didn’t even turn me in to Seattle Mom Blogs for not actually being a mother to anyone (except for several ex-boyfriends & the universe as a whole, obviously). I wanted to ask her about a number of things, in particular how Rihanna’s umbrella-ella-ay-ay-ay fits into all of this and what Fergie’s face really looks like up close, but instead we chatted about Debra’s collaboration with Christine Baze, the founder of Yellow Umbrella.
Simply put, Baze is a balls-out cervical cancer survivor. The kind of woman who makes me want to simultaneously clutch my heart in sisterhood solidarity and stab some kind of anthropomorphized version of HPV in the face. Or maybe just write about the ways women can help themselves:
- HPV vaccine – ages 9-26
- PAP test – ages 21 – 29
- HPV TEST with PAP test – ages 30+
Never one to shy away from a medical procedure (my colonoscopy results were once framed above my toilet) I fully embrace the PAP/HPV two step (or three step for those young & ripe for vaccination).
But back to the event. Freshly educated, made over and imbibed, my cervix and I were given two Debra Macki for The Yellow Umbrella eye shadow palettes. I’m keeping one, of course. But would you care for the other? Of course you would!
Let me give you free things on the Internet.
Whether you are cervically inclined or are just a fan of their work (which, ahem, you aught to be), leave a comment below, drop me a line, or talk at me on twitter.
I’ll randomly pick a winner on May 28th and send you your very own eye shadow palette (a $36 value, I am told) and a nice button with a drawing of a grinning cervix on it.
Yes, I just typed “a nice button with a drawing of a grinning cervix on it.”
This is Sparta.
Photo by the wonderful Mona.
