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Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don’t rush; otherwise you’ll look like a patchwork quilt.
— Lucille Ball
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This is practical advice for applying make-up: set up a table with everything within reach and take your time. Hurrying, it warns, leaves you looking like a patchwork quilt, meaning blotchy and mismatched, with colour in squares that don't blend.
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