I Woke Up Like This

Elizabeth Brockway
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Friday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway
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Friday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway
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Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway
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Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway
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Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway

Friday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway

Friday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway

Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway

Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway

Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Brockway
Elizabeth Brockway
Elizabeth Brockway
Elizabeth Brockway
Elizabeth Brockway

Beyoncé may have woken up like this, but I tend to wake up looking tired, a bit splotchy, and in serious need of some mirror time. But then there’s that rare morning when I groggily stumble to my bathroom, pry my mascara-crusted eyelids apart, catch my gaze in the mirror, and think, “Damn, I look good.” I know, I know… I just learned the importance of washing my face (thank you, Mackenzie), but everyone has those occasional rough nights—perhaps involving beverages that come “Texas-sized.” Sure, I might be aging myself, but if I’m adding a decade to my face by skipping the sink on my way to the pillow, I might as well embrace my quickly-developing cougar-ness.

So maybe it's not the best for your skin/eyes/face/whatever—and this may not even be the case every time I awaken post-drunken buffoonery—but sometimes sleeping in your makeup is the only way to make real that fabled lived-in, sexy, smoky eye that I used to think only existed in the world of Roitfelds. Now I can rejoice in the fact that there's a good chance I'll look even more dashing to an impromptu bedfellow in the harsh morning light than I did the night before.

—Elizabeth Brockway