Natural Beauty

Its funny how when we are doing all kinds of unnatural things, our main quest is natural.

I am a beauty everything freak, I love to read about how to take care of your skin and hair and how to wear make up, I am always keeping on track of all the latest fashions, I don’t have to follow them I just need to know about them. Anyhow, it occurred to me that through my readings one word shows up a lot “natural”, it seems that we are after naturally looking beautiful hair, and naturally looking beautiful skin and so on and naturally looking beautiful make-up. The irony is what ever process we go through to achieve this naturally looking beautiful whatever is most certainly not a natural one, and most certainly the result is far from natural either, it maybe beautiful but it is most certainly not natural.

This is so ironically true in particular with make-up. Are you trying to tell me that a made up face is as natural as a morning puffy eyes face. A natural looking made- up face would definitely have some concealer to cover dark circles under the eyes, and other spots in the face, it will include some foundation or powder on the face to eliminate shine and unify skin tones on the face, after all that there will be some blush, mascara and at least lip gloss, all this to achieve a natural looking beautiful face. The truth is a natural looking face of a beautiful woman, would generally have some uneven skin tones, some spots and shadows and lashes may not be as long or curly as without the mascara. So are we really after what is natural? I think not. We may wish we were naturally born with glossy lips and twinkly eyes and a dewey complexion, but the truth most if not all are not. Ok maybe we are born with those traits but we certainly don’t keep them beyond the age of 12, when puberty hits all kinds of beauty issues come with it.
Don’t get me wrong I am not against embellishing one’s self, on the contrary I am more than obsessed with my looks always have been and my greatest hobby is to dress up. I am just saying lets be real about it and honest. It is not natural that we seek . It is the ideal image in our heads of what natural beauty should be like that we are after. I just wish people writing for women’s press about those issues would stop with the over use of the natural word. If you want to be natural then stick with the face you wake up with. On the other hand if you like to embellish then the more honest you are about it the more comfortable you are with it.

So if you like your mascara then enjoy it and flaunt it. Natural is overrated anyway...