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Beauty Blog (Archive)
Friday, February 06, 2004
posted by TheBroadroom.Net at
5:26 AM (Pacific)
I think I understand you and it sounds a lot like my philosophy. I've always worn concealer on pimples but I've never tried to cover them up completely, just mute the redness a bit. And when I wear tinted moisturizer or powder, the idea is not to change the texture of my skin but to just even out the skintone. You can still see my skin. I always run my face by my boyfriend when I wear tinted moisturizer. If he says he can't tell I'm wearing something on my face, then I know I did it right.
Hmmm, other thing about me, I do have some odd pigmentation on one part of my face. It's an area with brownish spots. It's on the side of my jaw so it hardly shows (most of it is on the underside). I don't bother covering it up. In fact, lately, I haven't been wearing anything other than mascara, blush, and lipstick. I don't consider my face perfect at all. In fact, I have a scar in the middle of my forehead. I'm just OK with how my skin looks, imperfections and all. Hey, men have imperfect skin too but most of them don't do a darned thing about it!
I've gone through periods where I thought some things necessary. Things like filling in the eyebrows, using undereye concealer, powder, etc. But you know what? This always because some MA said so. And they must know right? Nah, I don't think they do.
I'm young so I feel a bit ridiculous saying this but I want to age gracefully. Still not sure I'll be colouring my hair later on but definitely no face lift or botox for me. I find there's beauty in wrinkles. Especially when wisdom has come with them. I don't like it when people fight aging every step of the way. Youth isn't all that...
I'm also bothered by people who look completely different with and without makeup (stage makeup excepted here). It's hard to put a finger on exactly why but it's bothersome. I think for me, it's the message that what you really are isn't good enough.
Raphaelle
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