Wednesday 27 July 2016

Thoughts about hoarding cosmetics

I love the Internet, and I love YouTube. I am often on the latter, watching either Tarot readings for my sign, or makeup videos. The makeup videos, being about different looks or product review,  are exciting and also quite addictive.
I always loved makeup for self-expression and to create a look of well-being so, over the years, I accumulated quite a bit. Lipsticks, eye shadows, foundations, powder and concealer, lots of concealer. Then there is the skin care, and I shall return to it in a later post.
As I move from cosmetic reviews, swatches and makeup looks, I noticed (many other women noticed this too) that my desire to buy new cosmetics has increased! I just have to try this new bronzer (forget that I already own 3) and, of course, the new lipstick and mascara made with the ultimate magical formula. Before you know it, you find yourself swamped with too many cosmetics that you don't even use, when it comes down to it. I realized, I have become just another consumer. This new awareness has prompted me to stop and think before I buy; do I really need it? Will I use it? I have stopped running to the cosmetic counter, unless I myself have been researching a product, and I have learned to rediscover and shop my own stash, and fall in love with so many products all over again. very gratifying.

Hello! I am back after 3 years of silence...I know, unforgivable, letting down the millions of fans and all ;) I wanted to say that, in this time, I have grown and conceived new ideas about beauty and what it means to me, that I would like to share.
Of course this idea includes men, I want men to feel included in this journey.
This is Australian actor Mahesh Jadu, of Kashmiri roots, for example. Ok, ok, men should not feel that they have to be that gorgeous to be beautiful! It is really a state of mind and an attitude of self-care. Good, basic grooming is the basis of all beauty, physically speaking. Someone well groomed shows self-love and high self-esteem; this creates the vibration of beauty.

At the end of June, my long-distance relationship ended and left me with a sense of injustice. In any case, 3 days before the break-up I felt the need to shorten my long hair
int a bob. I cut it myself.
I have always considered my long hair  a part of my identity and femininity, and now this new, short look is amazing and carefree and it is transforming my thoughts about my beauty and femininity. As I have been healing (and the bob was a premonition that change was coming), I have been feeling free and beautiful regardless of hair length, and receiving many compliments. What I am trying to say is, I am in a place of self-love and great self-esteem. So, no matter what happens in your life, man or woman, love yourself, care for yourself and you will be beautiful.