Wearing the new Benefit They?re Real Duo Shadow Blender in Sexy Smokin? ($24) on my eyes and They?re Real Double the Lip in Pink Thrills on my lips

Middle school dances were the worst. I don?t know why anybody thought they were fun.
Well?I know that there were some kids who probably had fun, like the kids in the popular clique who planned the dances. I bet they had a good time, but I never did. I always felt awkward sitting there in the bleachers, wringing my hands and tap-tap-tapping my lace-less Keds.
This was before it was OK to dance with a group of your girlfriends out on the dance floor, so you had to wait for someone to ask you, ugh! So painful. Nobody I ever actually wanted to dance with would ask me, which wasn?t a big surprise. I mean, I was beyond shy and awkward and nerdy. I did get asked a couple times?which leads me to the unwritten rule of middle school dances (circa 1989), which is that two is the magic number.
I?m thinking about this because I?ve been all about ?the twos? today. I?m rockin? a new eyeshadow duo and a new lipstick duo from Benefit ? They?re Real Duo Shadow Blender in Sexy Smokin? ($24) and They?re Real Double the Lip lipstick ($20). They?re part of Benefit?s new spring collection (available now at Benefit stores and counters), which is all about duos.
With the eight neutral powder eyeshadow duos and the eight lipsticks, and they?re basically um? the whole deal is they make your eyes and lips look bigger, instantly.
The shadows have a fu...