I'm back from my little hiatus and wanted to take some time to extrapolate on my video with the same title as this post.
In essence, my level of comfort with some of the beauty community on YouTube has diminished drastically within the past few months. It is not necessarily due to anything that was done wrong, but merely I believe my eyes were awoken to some of the not so pleasant aspects of the makeup world. At the very basic level of it all, the makeup industry gets its money by exploiting one of a women's most vulnerable traits. Her insecurities. Thin lips? Plumping lipstick! Round face? Contouring bronzer with fix that right up! And so on and so forth. I've taken a stance on this that is leading me to limit how much makeup I am putting on my face. I don't want women to think that it makes me better than them or that I am so brave for doing so. Not wearing makeup is my rejection of the standard of beauty that is upheld in the United States and many other parts of the world today. By tossing my foundation aside I'm saying to the world, "So what if I don't have porcelain skin? It doesn't make me any less of a person!" The ability to accept ourselves the way we truly are is liberating. If being bare-faced makes me ugly then SO WHAT. We don't have to be attractive for anyone. Own it. Let your confidence come from you and not how you are perceived by the world.
That was shorter than I expected but I think I did a good job of getting it across. Leave any questions down below.
-LilyGloss
