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ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID

yond his wildest imagination. He looked at me for approval.

"You look good but can you act like a girl for two days?"

"Oh, Todd! Look at HER. SHE's so sweet," his mother said as she put her arms around him. When she stood close to him, I was reminded that her hair was done in the same style. They indeed had mother-daughter hairdo's.

Baily was caught off guard and still engrossed in looking at his image in the mirror.

"Well now, we better finish his make-up. I can hardly wait to see HER..."

I watched as his mother began to feminize his features with make-up. She literally started from the top down in making him into an alluring young lady.

"I do look like a girl now, don't I?"

I nodded my head. His mother said, "When I'm finished dressing you up, Todd will want to kiss you!"

I blushed at her joke, but it was true. As the make-up went on, nobody would ever guess that Baily was a boy.

"Women usually put their make-up on before getting dressed, but you wanted Todd here to watch so we'll make an exception."

For the next twenty minutes I watched as his mother applied cosmetics to his face. She used an eyebrow pencil, eye liner, mascara and eye shadow to make his eyes look more dramatic.

"Your lashes are gorgeous! You have hair and lashes that most girls would kill to have. I'm just going to curl your lashes with this eyelash curler."

Baily cringed a little as his mother brought the strange device up to his eyes. He had to hold his head perfectly still as she clamped his eyelashes, forming them into a saucy upwards curl.

Mascara made his eyes seem a lot bigger. Moving

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For about a half an hour his mother's clever fingers used curlers, a curling iron, clips and brushes to create a work of art. Even Baily was amazed!