Hey all. Sorry I haven’t written for a while. I haven’t even written any of my stories. Which is odd for me. I have planned one of my new stories and read so many books...okay ill stop making excuses.
So I was watching Youtube as I tried to go to sleep (didn't work as I'm now writing this) and I come to this video where its different girls doing things to their hair (curling it, different hairstyles, etc) and I saw that almost every one of these girls had a lot of makeup on. Now I'm not saying that's bad or anything, but I believe it would have taken some of these girls around an hour or more just to do the makeup (not the video). I never believed in that. I grew up in a house where I couldn't wear makeup out of the house (unless it was for an important occasion like a dance concert or something like that) until I was 14. 14! I'm almost two years older and I still only wear makeup for dance. I suppose that also some of my dad talking. He hates makeup and I may have taken that attitude, but I don't think it's a bad one. Girls need to be comfortable with how they look like. I am, but that is after a couple of years experimenting with different hair colours (sue me, I'm a daredevil).
I suppose it is the environment that you grow up with as well. I have heard of some people who started to wear makeup out of the house when they were under 10. Girls need to know that they are beautiful the way they are, not the way they look like after an hour or two prepping for an event. I heard a song once, it's called A More Beautiful You by Jonny Diaz (link below). The music video for it is basically 2 girls getting ready for a photo shoot (hair and makeup) and then editors editing the photo so that it would be impossible for the girls to actually look like that (bigger eyes and things like that). I'm pretty sure that what they do with actual photo shots. It's impossible to be like the girls in the magazine. It isn't even physically possible.
Did you know that if Barbie was actually a real-life girl her whole body would be out of whack? It's just small things like what we look like and what we played with (come on, I'm not the only one who loved to play with barbies) that make us come up with impossible expectations for how we should look. So how about we just stop all that and be real for a second.
No one, nobody how hard they might try, can be the world's definition of perfect. I mean if the world has standards that are like Barbie and the impossible photo shoots outcomes, then no way. My mum said that a day or two ago. That if a girl isn't comfortable with who she is around other people, then she is insecure, and I think that is true. I have been insecure before, I mean I can't not be insecure, which being the youngest and everything. But we have to rise above that and believe that we a perfect the way we are. That doesn't mean we can't work to change the way we are, but just don't have something impossible in mind.
Well, that's all.
EB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ks3R2BwyO0
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