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lizzieohreally's avatar

This was great. Several years ago, I won a Gracie, which is (all due respect to the alliance for women in media) is not a real awards show award. It has both journalists (me) and actual celebrities (Allison Janney, Mindy Kaling). I knew that I won and would be going up onstage, so right before my category I reapplied my lipstick. But I dropped it and it rolled down the front of my pale orange dress. My best friend was my date and she and I tried to dab it out with seltzer. Huge mistake. It made a giant wet blob. So then they called my name and I had to go up onstage and accept this award in front of like 500 people, many of whom were actually famous, looking like I had peed myself. I ended up thanking the patriarchy for the pressure to wear makeup. As we were leaving, Pat Riley, the former Knicks coach, came up to me to say that he dropped things on himself all the time, so that was nice. The dress (Narciso Rodriguez, bought on sale on Gilt) was ruined.

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I LOVE Wendy molyneux, this was fun

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