My face has been super unpredictable the last couple of weeks due to , weather change, stress, and those all to lovely hormones. My face would be clear and blemish free one day, and then be dry, peeling, and broken out the next. Make up was just making my skin look worse. That was when I made the choice to give my skin a break.
I didn't use any powders, concealers, or gloss. The only thing I would put on was my moisturizer with spf in it, and chap stick.
At first I was so self conscience about my skin. It looked like constellations were forming on my for head. I was so aware of all my flaws, that I knew everyone else would be too. Then it hit me one day after I ran into a girlfriend of mine at the store. She didn't have any make up on either because she had just come from the gym. She felt like she needed to explain to me why she looked the way she did, when in reality, I didn't even notice. That is when I realized something, Who the heck cares?!
My friend was so worried about her own flaws that she didn't even notice that I had Mt. Saint Helen going on my forehead. I was the only one who even gave a crap about my skin looking the way it did. No one else seemed to notice my dark circles, red dry cheeks, and patchy skin. I was so worried that everyone was going to be staring at all my flaws that I didn't think about how they were worried about their own.
My skin needed a break. It was telling me so clearly. I needed to stop fighting it and just let it be. I am so happy I did, even though I still have pimples and dark circles, it is so much better then what it was.
It is important that we let our skin have fresh air, and sunlight. Look at your skin closely and see what it is trying to tell you. Sometimes we just need to bare it all to make our skin happy again.
Remember readers, I may be a jack of this trade, but I am a master of none.
Natalie
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