Waking up in the morning and you start picking yourself apart and finding faults.

Let’s face it teenage boys can get up and not brush their teeth, not comb their hair and have scuff (whiskers) on their face, go out and nobody says anything. It’s almost accepted as the norm and yet the girls at a very young age are conditioned whether it be from mom or the media that they have to start wearing makeup because if you don’t you’re not complete.

Today we are sold this false image of perfection from every corner store magazine rack of ritzy clothes and perfect bodies (photo shopped) and great skin and hair. Where everyone is always smiling and having the best time ever, or so they would make you believe. The falseness of all this is you would think that those people in the ads or on the covers don’t have any hang-ups and like is just a breeze. In this time of massive communication we are totally aware of what it’s like to be beautiful as nearly every household has internet or cell phones with browser capabilities so we can see these images and commercials but the downside is a woman is always sold – yes you look awesome but it’s not good enough yet. So here’s another magic pill or another makeup kit and maybe this will do the trick.

The sad part is we have thousands of women who get up and put makeup on every day of the week and I mean at least an hour a day devoted to adding eye liner and other stuff so the world won’t see them for their real self. How’s that for conditioning, have they been sold a bill of goods, and do you know why? Because it makes millions of dollars for the companies who make all this stuff.

 

It’s important to be clean and tidy if I make take a phrase from the 50ties but we don’t have to be perfect and you know what; those who are going to judge you, are going to do that very thing no matter what you do, so just be you.

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