Colors

First grade-Dallas, TX- Around 1976

My "Aunt Helen" had one of those giant eyeshadow palettes with every color under the rainbow in it and I wanted it so badly. I used to bug the hell out of her to let me have it. I am not sure what a 6/7 year old was going to do with all that eyeshadow but I wanted it just the same. She lived in a house in Preston Hollow that had two full bathrooms side by side which now, as an adult, seems like very weird interior design....but I was fascinated by that house even as a child. She had one bathroom and my grandmother had the other. The bathrooms themselves were very long and narrowish... probably about 20 X 8.Of course, being just a little kid, my visuals of how big they actually were are probably off. The story goes that the house was once owned by Dallas mobsters and there were actual bullet holes around several of the door frames throughout the house, including my aunt's bathroom. This was super cool to a little kid. Anyways, back to the eyeshadow...day after day after week after week went by and she never gave it to me. I would sit there with her in her bathroom while she got ready to go out on the town or was getting ready for work and I would pray to the god of makeup that someday that eyeshadow kit would be mine. I remember she was partial to the purples and greens and it would kill me to see all the colors I liked getting used up. Many years later, I asked her what had happened to it and she said it got old and she threw it out. I was crushed. This must explain my fascination with eyeshadow.