I don’t like make-up. When I was a younger girl, finishing up mom’s make-up set the day she bought it (it made me look like a mix between The Joker and Pennywise) was a top priority. But now, make-up is just something that I don’t enjoy being with on my body. People ask me why and here’s why.
I believe in something called natural beauty. And I don’t believe that you need some powders and creams and whatever else make-up is made of, to enhance it. Ugliness…does not exist. I believe everybody is beautiful, but just not everybody happens to see and appreciate your beauty. And I’m not the only one to believe this…we can go back before 0 CE to seek the thinker and philosopher, Confucius.
We have to appreciate ourselves for who we are physically and personality-wise. Make-up makes me someone who I’m not. The extra black around my eyes? Well, that’s not me. Concealing those pimples? That’s not you. Foundation all over your face? That’s not you either. The you is the one who doesn’t have anything to hide her face, the one who is showing her pure beauty. And that is the most precious, most elegant physical beauty of all.
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on January 8, 2012