The past 6 months I have been very conscience of what I put in my body and that includes on it as well. Using organic all natural soaps to wash my hair, face and body. Deodorants without aluminum and chemicals. Even my toothpaste is free of artificial sweeteners etc.... As I'm going through my morning routine of washing my face and applying moisturizer...I can't help but notice some dark circles and puffiness around my eyes from being tired. I also can't help but feel the need to brush on some color to my cheeks, concealer under my eyes, a little powder to even out my skin tone and a touch of mascara so my eyes look pretty. WHAT!? Do you ever stop to think why make-up was created? Of course women need it to feel attractive to men. Most men I know don't like when women wear a lot of make-up. sooooo what is going on?!
Living the way I do makes everyone else's toxic tendencies obvious. I have to keep an eye on myself to not lecture and criticize. Trying not to be a hypocrite, I read labels of everything...from my food to my dogs' food. The better I eat, the better I feel, the better I look. One day I hope to not use any beauty products but to make facial scrubs out of organic ingredients. Manage oily hair and skin with things from my pantry. After recently reading an article titled " Could you live 30 days without beauty products" I realized that the most difficult obstacle this particular woman faced was living confidently without all the things she thought she "needed" to look/feel beautiful. Her skin went through withdraw and eventually looked just as nice if not better than on day one wearing full make-up.
Here is where my paranoia comes in...I don't trust the FDA (in case you didn't know). Everyone is out to make money...beef/dairy farmers, corn producers etc...are paying the salaries of the people creating the food pyramid and our daily serving suggestions . Conflict of interest? Anyway, that leads me to wonder if we as a society took better care of our bodies and our emotional well being would we need things such as make-up to mask the "imperfections"?
I hope to find out.
Living the way I do makes everyone else's toxic tendencies obvious. I have to keep an eye on myself to not lecture and criticize. Trying not to be a hypocrite, I read labels of everything...from my food to my dogs' food. The better I eat, the better I feel, the better I look. One day I hope to not use any beauty products but to make facial scrubs out of organic ingredients. Manage oily hair and skin with things from my pantry. After recently reading an article titled " Could you live 30 days without beauty products" I realized that the most difficult obstacle this particular woman faced was living confidently without all the things she thought she "needed" to look/feel beautiful. Her skin went through withdraw and eventually looked just as nice if not better than on day one wearing full make-up.
Here is where my paranoia comes in...I don't trust the FDA (in case you didn't know). Everyone is out to make money...beef/dairy farmers, corn producers etc...are paying the salaries of the people creating the food pyramid and our daily serving suggestions . Conflict of interest? Anyway, that leads me to wonder if we as a society took better care of our bodies and our emotional well being would we need things such as make-up to mask the "imperfections"?
I hope to find out.
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