The things we do in the name of beauty and image. Urgh. I've been attempting to maintain my eyebrows since I can't go to a regular salon and get them done. I am slowly getting better at threading my eyebrows without the fear of completely shaving them off. Woe to me for being a girl in the twenty-first century. It sometimes sucks because you're silently pressured to be pretty, have clear skin, and forgo the natural look for a more commercialized makeup ridden face, wear chic clothes that might not be comfortable (but at least you look "hot").
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| Is this what modern beauty looks like? |
Its not that I'm complaining because I feel like I have to try to be pretty in society's definitions. I generally don't wear makeup (at least not when I'm bumming out). I have workouts printed and read for me to attempt ( I might even get a file for them). But at the end of the day, who is this all for? I'm not in love (I've known for a while I'm still in my independent phase) and my dad likes to tell me that I'm ugly, especially when I look like I walked out of Vogue Magazine. Its tough to decide that you're doing all this for yourself when really you're doing it for the industry. Who needs all those eye-shadows, concealers, hair dyes, and mascara wands. So in my attempt at minimalism I'm going to challenge myself to find inner beauty: look for the good in myself (thought others may not see it).
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| "For beautiful eyes look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone,"Audrey Hepburn |
