the art of being a girl

[meiface]

Every time I walk out of an Ulta or Sephora, I sigh and feel like I'm not just not pretty enough and if only I had enough money to buy all this excellent make-up, I would suddenly feel like I'm good in my face, as if somehow buying all these products would also imbue with the willingness and skill to spend all this extra time applying said products

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[chaos_harmony]

True story: a lot of makeup shops use deliberately harsh lighting to create the illusion that you have worse skin than you actually do, so you'll be motivated to buy their products. WHICH IS BRILLIANT & ALSO HORRIBLE

[meiface]

Brilliant and horrible about sums it up!

And I agree that makeup boosting self-confidence is fine - whatever makes you look and feel good about yourself, y'know? My problem lies more in the way it reduces, for me, all my life problems into not feeling pretty enough and if only I had the make-up to fix how I looked, I would feel beautiful and all my other problems would go away! Obviously untrue, and I know it, but that is the feeling that creeps up on me the longer I linger in makeup stores, ugh.

Seriously though, most days I'm fine. i'm actually probably the most stable emotionally now than I've ever been in my life! Sometimes little things still get under your skin though, lifetime of issues, etc etc. \o/ But thank you. ♥