I have become comfortable in my own skin. I feel beautiful for what I really am, a human being. I had spent so long trying to love myself by trying to “look good”, when it really only raises a false standard that no one can ever reach. How can human beings feel beautiful, if what we find beauty in is not of any human-like quality? Clothes, makeup, jewelry, photoshopped images that create false impressions of things that will never exist in real life.
Now, this may seem very hippie, bra-burning, feminist, oversensitive, bull (because that’s what I thought it was back when I used to hear people saying it before), but really, if you really really think about it, wouldn’t you think that the most beautiful person alive would probably be beautiful without makeup, or regardless of what she’s wearing?
Fashion is a lie. It gives so many people the hope to look beautiful, when all it does is give everyone another reason to judge how you look, whether it’s in season, colours coordinate with your accessories, your roots are coming in, your makeup is uneven, WHAT IS ALL THIS BULLSHIT? I think it’s bullshit that I have to live in a world where I have to worry about impressing insignificant people. And all the while… everyone is made to feel like they should be HAPPY, COMFORTABLE. How are people supposed to be comfortable with their peers breathing down their necks? Comfortable with them selves… by painting themselves up to be something they aren’t! Human beings have moles, dark rings around their eyes, blemishes… imperfections that we should be encouraging. Real human attributes.
<3 love yourself.