Used lipstick...and a doodle share!

Really, some people can be so cunning. I'm not so sure if cunning is the appropriate word but here's what happened:

After church, my Mom and I did a little shopping and I bought some more pens and a new sketchbook for my art supplies. While I was lining up at the cashier, I saw this woman (vaguely familiar to me but I can't match the face to a name) putting on lipstick, which I later discovered that she still has not paid for.

You see, I thought at first that the lipstick was hers and she was simply and "un-etiquetally" (I'm making up a word here!) re-touching her makeup right there for the whole 2nd floor of the department store to see. But when her turn came up, she handed over the lipstick to the cashier. Wow, I thought. But I just kept silent, like the other people who were in the same line and who obviously saw her too.

Now at this point, the cashier obviously had no idea that the female customer had already tested the product. To add insult to injury, the woman ended up not buying the said lipstick! She held up the line for quite some time because she was pestering the cashier with a lot of stupid questions about the product, like how come it doesn't twist close properly, etc.

These are questions you ask the salesgirl when you're checking out the product, and it's her job to give you a rundown of the item in question, not the cashier who has absolutely no idea about it.

So the woman walked away with a fresh coat of lipstick on her lips, courtesy of a brand new lipstick that she did not pay for. Talk about freebie!

But it worries me too. I pity the woman who'll be buying that used lipstick, thinking that it's never been used before. That's why women should always buy lipstick that are still sealed in their packages. And if you must use those testers, don't swipe them right on the lips, but on the wrist or palm or any other skin just NOT the lips. It's totally unhygienic.

Anyway, like I said in my earlier post, here's a scrap I made today:


These are my nieces and they're really super cute, only that the photo doesn't do them justice at all since it's low-res from a camera phone. So to make up for the crapiness of the pic, I just made the doodles colorful :-).

I'm giving away the doodle border used in the photo and the black doodle curly swirl or whatever it's called that I used in the journaling. It's for personal and commercial use. Yes, it is. And no credit required to boot, although it's HIGHLY appreciated, there's no pressure for you to credit me when you use these.

BUT... (there's always gotta be a BUT hehe)...for digiscrap designers, please take note: Don't include these borders in your digiscrap kits as scrapbook elements or page accents. If you do that, it's kinda tricky isn't it? These are being offered for free so why should you sell them?

You can design stuff out of these doodles. Like, you can turn them into a pattern and make a textured, background paper out of it. In that case, sell them off in your scrapkits! Or blend the doodles into a strip of ribbon, merge them and make pretty digital ribbons out of them. Go ahead, sell them then. Just don't insert my doodles in their original, un-tweaked, un-edited state into your kits and sell them off to unsuspecting scrappers. It's totally unimaginative, unoriginal and deceiving.

Ok 'nuff said, here are close-up previews (200% zoom) of my doodle freebies for today:




These are close-up previews of the doodles. They are in .png files (transparent backgrounds). The previews with the red background is for preview purposes only, to show you that it has none of that annoying white haze nor jaggies. The lines are smooth and vectorized and 100% hand-drawn.

Sigh. I love doodles. I hope you'll like these!

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If you like them, please leave me a comment here :-) Now that would be highly appreciated haha.