Mona and Des Manahan have been married for 56 years, but their love and romance is still very much alive. In fact, the senior couple recently made international headlines because of the devotion that Des shows to his wife.
As Mona’s eyesight started to deteriorate in her old age, she went to see makeup artist Rosie O’Driscoll at a department store so the young lady could do her makeup for a party. Though O’Driscoll is an accomplished beauty expert, Des couldn’t help but tease her about her job.
“I started messing with her and I said, ‘Look, you’ve got it crooked there, you did this wrong,’ joking her,” Des told TODAY Style. “And then she just handed me the brushes and said, ‘Well, you do it.’ So I started to do a little bit with it.”
To O’Driscoll’s surprise, the 83-year-old Irishman was a “natural.”
In fact, Des enjoyed doing his wife’s makeup so much, he started to take makeup lessons from O’Driscoll at the department store.
“He got lesson after lesson after lesson, and loved every minute of it,” O’Driscoll told TODAY. “I think he prefers…
