made up memoirs

Here's a funny thing about memories- they randomly pop out of the weirdest places of the oddest things, and you're left reminiscing about them in a light you probably might not have at that moment of the incident. 

Case in point my visit to Sephora in Delhi.

Not a spectacular place, but okay lot's of makeup in one place and what not..great! Here's the odd part. 

The salesmen of shop attendants or whatever is it that one calls them were all men.

I don't know why but I felt rather uncomfortable talking to men about makeup and listening to them suggest colours and tones for my skin.

Not that it's a problem, anyone can buy or sell makeup, but I didn't feel relaxed while browsing for goods or swatching colour because a man would pop up out of nowhere and start asking me what I was looking for, brand, skin type etc, and really I wanted, needed a woman to come over and talk to me about these things, and all the female sales representatives (I think that's the correct terminology these days) stood in a crowd and chatted on, while men, who I didn't think would understand makeup the way women do, crowded over me, applying creams on my hands, shoving concealers on my face, dangling primers on my head, and though they were just doing their job I just felt mighty uncomfortable.

I wanted to hear a woman's voice talk to me about foundations and night masks and lip glosses, and mattes, not men. Ugh. 

I'm not being a sexist in any way..you see, I'd be okay if some man who wore makeup showed me these things, but then none of these men were the kinds who wore or even went close to makeup and knew the nitty-gritty of how makeup applies or the problems women face with certain areas on their face, things that only women or men who wore makeup would know.

It's something similar to buying lingerie or discussing it with a male rep. Yes, they can sell lingerie but they don't know the specifics of that particular garment the same way a woman or a man who wore lingerie would know and understand. 

Yeah, so memories and odd thoughts. strange.