Describe someone other than yourself looking in the mirror

She looks in the mirror through dim light as she opens the top left drawer for her face cream - she can see herself in spite of the dim light - her hair, which was once a dark brown, is now peppered with grey - she has stopped using the dye - and is thinking of lightening her hair - before she applies the face creme, she reaches for her scarf - to tie those flyaway hairs back so she can get all the way to her hair line.  As she rubs in the creme she slowly rubs the area above her right eye - that scar, that took her eyebrow hairs away - it is easier to just pluck whatever odd hairs grow in…which reminds her - she needs a new eyebrow pencil next time she drives to town. When did she start to look so old.  Thankfully her nightly ritual of applying face cream, and Mentholatum keeps most of the wrinkles away - she draws the top lip down as she applies some vaseline to the base of her nose - which was broken and reset the same time she got the scar on her face. Her eyes stare back at her - unblinking, where has the time gone - she shrugs it off and reaches for her brush - she stares back at this woman - taking the brush through her thinning and slightly wavy hair - using the brush to massage her scalp before running it through to the ends and decides maybe it is time to go a shade lighter or something to help keep color but still cover the grey.  She is not yet ready to have the grey hair. She remembers her mother’s thick grey curls and feels a little pang of sadness and she looks back into the mirror - she looks tired, are those bags under her eyes, tomorrow she will spend a little time with a slice of cucumber on each eye - maybe during her afternoon rest.  She will just have to listen to Guiding Light - rather than watch or rather doze through it.  She stares at her chin and lights up her magnifying mirror to pull a couple stray hairs from her chin - who would have thought she would need to pluck hairs from her chin? She doesn’t remember her mother telling her about this - she talked to some ladies at church on Sunday after the service and they joked about how their husbands were losing hairs - and the wives felt like they were gaining them - in the most unflattering of places - on the chin.  She glances at the mirror at the reflection of her husband already asleep after a long day in the field. He is always saying she is still the most beautiful woman in the room - and that after having three kids and two of them have kids of their own - why it was just this last visit - with her daughter and granddaughter that the store clerk commented on how she and her daughter looked like sisters - should she be worried that her daughter looks close to her age?  There are 21 years between them. Her skin looks luminous after all of the creme application - now she stares at herself one last time before turning off the little light - and then she catches her reflection in the full length mirror - a woman stares back at her wearing a short pink nightdress - a couple of white tube socks on her feet - her knees sticking out.

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