I'll have the morning scramble, with a side of anxiety.

Friday morning, 7:00 AM. The "Snooze" button has been hit five too many times and by default, you're running late. The weekend still seems light years away and all you want to do is curl into a ball and whimper quietly until the clock ticks to 5:00 PM.

Instead, you scramble your groggy body in a hopeless attempt to make up for lost time. You're drying your hair, brewing coffee, and applying mascara simultaneously. You look at the clock...7:34 AM....you were supposed to leave four minutes ago and you still have a lot of work to do in the "face department". All of your products are scattered across the counter and there's absolutely no time for lollygagging. Panicked, you look at yourself in the mirror. It's down to the wire and you'll do what it takes to get yourself out that door in three seconds without scaring the neighbs.

*With the following tips from your fellow AM scrambler, you can start your day sunny side up. I have personally tried all of these secrets in certain moments of morning madness and they have been a complete success.

1. Take a deeeeeep breath and stretch, it's important to warm up and get the muscles working before you begin your morning obstacle course.

2. Combine a drop of your foundation with your moisturizer, blend together and apply with fingers to moisturize AND even out your skin tone.

3. Knock out lip and cheek color with one product---lip stick! A rosy tone tends to complement most skin colors and enhance your natural glow. After applying to your lips for its intended purpose, dab a little on your finger tips and blend in a circular motion on the apples of your cheeks.

4. Find yourself caught up with the clock? Dot the inner corners of your eyes with a white or cream shimmer to give your eyes a more "awake" appearance.

Ta daaaaaaah! There you have it....a model look in under a minute!

Wait a second!

On your way to work, you're checking your purty self out in the rear view mirror. *SCREEEEEECH* your car comes to an abrupt halt. You forgot the brows!!!!!! AAAAAH!

Don't freak out. Here's the trick...

As you shuffle through your purse in desperation to find SOMETHING...ANYTHING to fill in those eyebrows. You reach out of your bag and your hand tightly grips a BIC pen. Hand shaking, you ask yourself..."Do I dare?!?!" There's no time to consider the tragic possibility of giving yourself Eddie Munster brows and you do it.

Very lightly with the pen at an almost sideways angle you create incredibly fine strokes inside the brow to fill in the gaps. Surprisingly, your look is complete and you tell ABSOLUTELY NO ONE you took a ball point to your face this morning. Just make sure the pen is not blue. This trick works for most brown to black brows. For lighter brows...keep a #2 pencil handy. :)