Sarah makes her first trip to the lipstick counter:

... "So you want to be a lipstick girl", their sales girl asked me. I nodded fervently. And she ushered me into a chair and for the next 10 minutes we dabbled with roses and fire engine reds and cabernets and blood reds. When it was all said and done, I left the store with a new tube of MAC Amplified Lipstick in Dubbonet. And a Burgundy lip pencil. I even had the sales girl apply it for me before I left so I could begin my new life as a Lipstick Wearing Woman. ...