Growing up isn't all bad.

This is going to sound crazy but only in the last year have I discovered blowdrying my hair and using makeup. In high school, and even a couple years after, I would blow-dry my hair the bare minimum, throw it into a rats nest on top of my head and call it a day/night. Hair is grossly snarly? Hey! Just looks naturally curly, right? wrong. I cringe looking back. Sometimes on a super special occasion I would take out my flat iron and fry the ever loving daylights out of my locks. It's unreal and scary how clueless I was. I see high school girls now picking out clothes that compliment their skin tone, using full coverage foundation and filling in their brown before school everyday and I just don't understand where I went wrong. I'm talking roll out of bed throw on some eye-liner maybe mascara and call it a day. Oh and for clothes? Oversized mens sweatpants and a t-shirt. See picture below. My hair was coming out of the rats nest it was the previous night and that's just how it was. I also didn't lose my baby fat until I was 18. No exaggeration. 

What the HELL was I thinking. 

We definitely aged well. 

Fast forward a few years and here I am. More often than not I wear makeup and do my hair. You really never know when that perfect, sweet, yacht-owning guy is going to come along. Girls have to be prepared for everything and anything. 
For the most part I use a light to medium coverage foundation daily. I like to even out my skin without covering it. If I'm headed out I lightly contour my face with some bronzer and blush, add a little shadow, some liner and mascara. Oh! And I always fill in my brows. Eyebrows are the difference between Miss America and high school Shannon. I like to think of myself as Miss America these days. 
Now that summer is upon us I tried to let my hair air dry the other day and it was a massive fail. It looked as though I hadn't brushed my hair in months. Oh PS- I never used to brush my hair.  How did I ever get away with that? More importantly how the hell did I ever land any male attention? Maybe I should clarify that my hair usually falls pretty straight and was never a massive knot like you're thinking. I just should have brushed my hair because, hello, hygiene.  My round brush and hair dryer were laughing at me when I showered for the second time in one day to fix the mess. 
I'm hoping within a few weeks I will be tan enough that I won't need anything other than moisturizer, mascara and a curling wand. How do you get ready during the summer months?