Muses: I am a parent-volunteer.

She volunteered my service for her orientation performance! Again, I was told in passing. a day or two before. I cannot get anymore information from her except to 'help put on make up'.

On the way out, I grabbed 1 blue liner,  1 pink shadow, 1 light blush and stuffed it into my camera bag.
Sent her to school. I sat on the bench while her teachers organised the group. Then they moved off to the room to get ready. Some mothers followed. I pretended not to notice by staring hard at my ipad. The group had moved on to a safe distance when Rae turned back, ran to me, grabbed my hand and instructed me 'mommy, let's go now'.

We had to help out with either HAIR or FACE.
Face of course. I am hopeless with hair.
For face, we were instruced to put pink eye shadows with blue liner for the eyes (It seems that these are the standard colours for school performances)
The other mommies whipped out their palettes of gazillion eyes, cheek and lip colours.
I took out my arsenal of 4 tiny items. No wonder my station had very few 'customers'. My first customer was Rae of course. The other moms, obviously experts at such volunteer work, quickly plastered the children's faces with BRIGHT GAUDY LOUD colours. I can't bear to do it. My hands were light with the eye and cheek colours. As I didn't have my makeup pouch, the lip colours I had then were bobbi brown-ish choices.
The few kiddos whom I helped were told by the teachers to REDO their faces at the gaudy stations.
Yes. That was an affirmation that I suck at stage make up.
Rae came to me aftewards with wayang lips and eyes (the lips were lined wrong!).
I told her, unblinkingly, how beautiful she was.

Though my grand effort at parent-volunteer  failed badly, Rae was pleased and proud that 'MY MOMMY' turned up to support her from beginning till end.

The innocence and ignorance of the young. I wonder if she will feel the same way years later.
Will I make her proud? Or will I be an embarassment?
Parents need affirmation from their children too. Don't we?