Being Mom Makes My Life Complete Shirt

I exist in that sweet spot of desperately wanting to look good and not making any kind of real effort lest someone think I am trying to look good. Yet even I have picked up on the Being Mom Makes My Life Complete Shirt but in fact I love this current fascination with Y2K—that era of low-rise jeans, bedazzled tank tops, and lip gloss that is still haunting and humiliating to those of us who were actually cognizant in the early aughts—and what is seemingly the makeup of the moment: It’s black eyeliner. There’s literally been no other option. But despite the lower half of our faces being covered for the last 12 months, there are other reasons I’d like to suggest for why eyeliner remains the only thing we want to wear in the New Year. Yes, this is an entire essay about eyeliner. Don’t blame me; blame society.

Being Mom Makes My Life Complete Shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt

The last time I was obsessed with eyeliner, it was a universal form of expression for us sad girls who didn’t know who we were yet, or why we were so sad. My raccoon eyes, which I erratically traced with Urban Decay’s 24/7 Glide-On Pencil in high school, had the Being Mom Makes My Life Complete Shirt but in fact I love this ability to immediately inform strangers that I was annoyed and that I didn’t like attention, even though I was simultaneously bringing attention to myself.