Makeup has always been an intriguing art, one I delve into to express myself on my face. Have you ever watched makeup tutorials? That’s skill yo! Anywho, last October, I posted on my Insta Stories that I was taking the month off from makeup. I have used makeup as a crutch for the longest time, and at that point I was mostly thinking about getting my skin rejuvenated before graduation season so that I’d be poppppinnnn. WELL.
Things definitely did not go as planned.
I asked my followers what they would suggest I use for my skin to be renewed and they came through with amazing suggestions.
Here’s the thing. I used a few of them but I had already set my mind on this new secret weapon product that I was going to use. I bought a skin serum because of all the ultra nutrients they are supposedly packed with, so I knew I was going to be the bomb.com. I wasn’t. Far from it.
Not everything expensive is good. This serum played me, mad ting. Even though I have dry skin, this thing came through and had me making pimples like I was going through puberty again! Even during puberty I never had these many pimples.
I still stuck to my guns and went makeup free even with this disaster at hand. However, this No-Makeup October taught me a lot more than just to watch out for the products I put on my face. It also highlighted a lot of insecurities I previously had about the way I looked. I always felt I had to hide behind concealers and especially lipstick! I wore makeup firstly for my own pleasure but later it morphed into this dependency; I couldn’t walk to the store without setting my brows and covering my lips. That month I went 500 miles extra, and then I went 500 more. Going to town, posting online and even heading to church with ZERO MAKEUP!! It wasn’t easy, that’s a fact, but by the end of it, I learnt something more:
It doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. How I look or how I present myself to the world has nothing to do with the substance I have within me which is waaaay more valuable than M.A.C or HUDA or whatever other company I was masking behind. Either way I still made some authentic connections with people, no one screamed and ran away from me when I approached them bare faced, nothing around me changed, but everything within me was different. I appreciated myself more, I learnt to love myself a little harder, I learnt how to readjust my focus to the more important things
I’m still on a plan to get me skin right although I’m back to my regular skin regimen and using makeup (whenever I want to).
Do you have any skin care tips I can use?
-Atwiine
