Hello everyone! I wanted to share a wonderful thing that happened to me a few days ago.

Recently I wanted to start one-upping my girl game by making myself a "no-makeup makeup" routine. I already have a (quite basic for now) skincare routine, but a makeup one, not so much. I would apply mascara once in a while, but I used to be very intimidated by everything else (foundation, contouring, colour correcting, etc), and never knew where to start, so I always pushed it back to "later".

At one point I bit the bullet, and started seriously looking for information. Eventually, I managed to come up with a makeup routine that evens out my skin tone and subtly enhances my eyes and lips. (Special shoutout to /u/Camille11325 who has been very patient with me and kindly answered all my bazillion questions about makeup!) My husband drove me around to buy the products, and he was pretty much dismayed by the whole thing and noped out of the makeup aisle pretty quickly. (I remember him saying "Damn I'm glad to be a man. That sh-- is way too complicated for me.")

Two days ago, while my husband was at work I tried the whole makeup routine. When he came back home, he eventually held me in his arms, and he noticed my face. He told me he absolutely LOVED the makeup. "Subtle, just how I like it!", he said. Also I had switched to a new bottle of conditioner that same day and he really liked the smell of it, so he didn't let go of me and stuffed his face in my hair to smell it, and said it smelled awesome.

Later on in the evening, he came to me and told me "I really appreciate the fact that you make yourself pretty and take more and more care of yourself". I felt as if I was floating on a cloud. :)

So ladies, don't ever sit on your laurels. It's not because you have a ring on your finger that it means you shouldn't work hard to please your man. Even when you think he doesn't really care about that kind of stuff because he isn't vocal about it, trust me, he does. Put in the effort. He will notice it and appreciate it.