Getting Plastered
Lexie plastering Leah. Note the fancy headgear made from garbage bags.
My 17 year old and her friend spent Friday evening getting plastered. And I stood there and laughed. Now, don’t get upset with me. What I mean is they spent part of Friday night making plaster casts of their faces.
On Friday evening, the Holder family headed out to the high school basketball game with our friends from out of town. Lexie and her friend, Leah, of course, chose to drive separately. I am sure it was partly because they figured they’d lose interest in the game before we did. Which is exactly what happened. So they left the game and headed back to the house a good while before we did.
You never know what the teens will be up to when they’re home alone, especially Lexie and Leah. Afterall, these are the girls who decided when they were in elementary school to have a “snail sale.” Yes, this dynamic duo decided it would be a great idea to catch snails in the creek and sell them to passing motorists. Normal kids sell lemonade, but not these two! (Gotta give a quick shout out to the neighbor who bought not one, but two, snails from the girls…you know who you are and I hope you enjoyed your snails as much as I enjoyed the fact that you stopped and bought them!)
When we came home on Friday we found the teens in the powder room, Leah with two drinking straws hanging from her nostrils, and half her face covered in plaster-infused gauze sheets. Lexie hovered over the sink, cutting the next sheet of the material to size and wetting it down to activate the plaster before smoothing it onto Leah’s face.
Leslie (Leah’s mom) and I did what any mothers would do when faced with such a situation…we giggled and headed for our cameras! Leslie video-taped and I took still shots (are we a great team or what?!). Lexie kept commanding Leah not to laugh or smile lest she crack the mask.
Once Leah was fully plastered, Lexie led her (blind from plaster over her eyes) out of the powder room to the den where she could dry for a bit. Once dry, Leah had to remove the mask from her face. That part looked pretty painful to the pair of moms. So we did what any good moms would do…got back to taking pictures and video, of course!
Leah helping Lexie remove the plaster from her face.
Once Leah got her mask off and did a quick rinse of her face to get most of the plaster residue removed, the duo returned to the powder room to make a cast of Lexie’s face.
I’m not really sure what the girls plan to do with their plaster casts of their faces. I’m really not sure it even matters. Sometimes it’s process as much as product, after all. I am pretty sure of a couple of things, though. I am sure they won’t soon forget their little adventure. And I am sure the strange pictures I took will be favorites of mine.
Somehow, all of this looks and sounds way too familiar; Kass has been up to this very thing recently at school – only it was called head sculptures! Good luck…
Didn’t you post a picture with some crazy, pointy sculpture on Kass’s head?