Well, what else was there to do but to apply 35-shade eyeshadow palette, mink lashes, two pots full of brushes, and a skin contouring kit—all on your face—while waiting to deliver your baby?
Doesn’t sound like a typical woman going into labor for over ten hours, but Alaha Karimi—a 27-year-old woman from Long Island, New York—did just that.
The internet went into a frenzy after the new mom shared her pre-labor pictures on her Instagram account.
The business consultant who also has her own professional makeup business on the side, “MakeupbyAlaha,” received some backlash from Instagram users, but the love that poured in on social media far outweighed the negative.
“I went to the hospital at 7:30 a.m., and I was in labor for a total of 10 hours that day,” she told ABC News. “I had an epidural around 8:30 or 9:00 a.m., so when it started to wear off, I needed something to distract myself from the pain.”
And makeup was the answer. Karimi called her husband to get her makeup bag.
“He’s been my number one supporter,” she said. “Even if I wanted to play soccer in labor, he would’ve been there supporting me.”
She also received support from doctors and nurses, that gave her the OK to do her makeup as well.
According to ABC News, it normally would take Karimi about 45 minutes to do a “full glam look.” The day of her labor, it took her over three hours.
“I did my makeup in between my contractions,” she said. “I had to keep pausing whenever I'd get a contraction, and I had to catch my breath. But, honestly, doing something I loved helped the time go by so much faster and made everything so much easier.”
