I’ve noticed that we worry too much about ourselves and how we look! This sounds weird I know but bare with me
When I lived in Spain (actually in the Canary islands) it’s hot all year around, I always had a ‘bit of colour in me’ and most of the time didn’t worry about mascara because it melted off, washing my hair every single day instead of just ‘sticking it up’, because you were going to get sweaty anyway, how many clothes I had, I’d wear the same shorts and t-shirt to the night club as I’d worn to the beach and that wasn’t a bad thing because everyone else was doing the same, the care of how we looked wasn’t as important as who we were. Now don’t get me wrong, I did shower every day, some days 3 showers because it was hot going from work to the beach to the night out. On nice nights out I’d put a bit of make up on and do my hair nicely but that would be a nice surprise to the friends I surrounded myself with and them looking ‘done up’ was a surprise for me, it meant you’d made an effort. The difference being that here in the UK it seems to be expected every day, I rarely leave home without having mascara on and a bit of lipstick on, just for that ‘bit of colour’. My hair is almost always ‘done’ and I would never dream of wearing my dog walking clothes to a night out, even to the pub for a few drinks. I do think it’s a bit sad that now I don’t really look any different, I always look like I’ve made a bit of an effort.
That’s me and I consider myself pretty lazy on that. But so many of the ladies much younger than me spend so much time and money on make up, hair, clothes and ALWAYS trying to get what they consider as perfection, I think it’s sad that a beautiful young woman (or man) can’t look past all that in the mirror and just see normality, their normal self that looks pretty good just as plain and simple and really there is nothing wrong with plain and simple.
I’ve spoken to a few ‘blokey’ friends about this, over a few pints in the pub and we’ve all agreed that this just isn’t necessary. That the person they see under all the make-up, fillers, eyelashes, eyebrows and everything else that is aiming for their perspective of perfection. These blokey friends have all without exception that they prefer the look without all that ‘stuff’, that it’s fine to have all that for a date night or a night out but to have normality on a normal day for normal life is much more attractive.
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