Lipstick

[isabelquinn]

Title/Prompt - Lipstick
Author - isabelquinn
Word count - 889
Rating - G
Summary - Tiffany Kilbourne tries to learn how to use lipstick.
Link to table - link.
Author's note - Moar Kilbourne fic! This is set during the events of Snob, one of my other prompts. Thanks to ozqueen for beta-ing :)

Comments

[luxken27]

Better late than never, right?

This is awesome! ♥ Poor Tiffany - eleven is *such* an awkward age. I really get the sense from this piece that she's not ready for all the changes she's trying to force herself to make, but at the same time, she doesn't want to feel left behind her classmates and friends. They're setting an example and she's not really interested, but thinks she should be. I think you captured that sort of in-between awkwardness so nicely.

Even though she's unsure of some things, she has strong opinions about others. This line especially made me smile - Five hours with the bratty Delaney kids last week, and all she had to show for it was a tube of lipstick that she’d probably never have the guts wear. The whole second scene is a great counterpoint to that part of 'Snob'. We know Shannon's not really upset about baby-sitting, either...and you show this breakdown in communication really well.

I think you're my Kilbourne-writing hero(ine), LOL. Keep up the good work! (And I'll try to be more timely in my responses, hehe.)

[isabelquinn]

she's not ready for all the changes she's trying to force herself to make, but at the same time, she doesn't want to feel left behind her classmates and friends.

That's pretty much exactly what I was going for :D Most paragraphs have something childlike in them (eg "all those years using red crayons to draw lips") because I was trying to get that very idea across :D Thanks!