Because 'Get Ready With Me' videos are so 2019.
After enjoying a few cautiously optimistic months, I'd be lying if I said things don't feel pretty precarious — even glum — right about now, what with the especially contagious strain of COVID-19 currently making its unwelcomed rounds. The hugely popular phenomenon of
You can already tell from the caption of the Instagram video — "Attempt to be alive with this basic yet smoldering look that YOU can do at home" — that Dennings is understandably not feeling too hot about general goings-on, but she handles it exactly like I would if I were a famous actor with a social-media platform people actually pay attention to: with humor, eyeliner, and a beaded butterfly clip just sort of chillin' loosely in her curly hair.
After a moment of panic getting some kind of out-of-frame chord in an out-of-frame palette, Dennings goes on to say, "I thought I would just do a fun little eye look to go with my impending meltdown. I've already done my base. I used some, which, honestly, I need more. Let's just do more." As she applies more concealer with a brush, she says, "She is truly a reanimated corpse. I'm using a bit of a lighter touch today.
As she completes her brows , Dennings drops perhaps her most perfectly timed line of the video: "I'm trying to value myself more by not just doing unpaid things, you know? Because you're worth it. Whoops."