When I walk into a bathroom I see two sides of life. I see the hair in the sink from when he shaved the previous night, a toothbrush, and a stick of deodorant. On the other side I see mass chaos. A straightener is cooling off in the sink, and all around there are bags over flowing with beauty products. Her jewelry is strewn across the counter top; abandoned after she changed her earrings three times that morning, before meeting with a client. Her medicine cabinet is bloated with perfume, makeup, contacts, and other things that she bought to improve her appearance. Why are these sides so different from each other? Why doesn't he have beauty products that he needs to feel like he is presentable enough to go out in the world? Even better, why does she need to use these things to feel like she looks good enough to be in public? Views in society today are construed beyond belief. Not only are women struggling to feel beautiful enough, they are paying a high price to get there.
The truth is, I can't convince every girl in the world to love themselves for what's on the inside. That battle is old, and many people have tried to win it. But that doesn't mean I have agree with the belief that I have to love what I see on the mirror side of things. Now, on a daily basis, the only makeup I put on is mascara, but is makeup the only thing considered a beauty product? What about the products we use to minimize out acne? What about all the things you bought, and thought you would use, but they didn't work out the way you wanted? There have been countless times where I have bought a different make up product thinking that I would love it, and after the first use it got discarded, because it was not what I wanted. Girls spend countless amounts of money on new ways to make themselves feel pretty, such as tanning, waxing, going to the nail salon, getting our hair dyed once a month,plastic surgery, perfume, and filling bags with makeup products.
The Cosmetic Industry makes over 42 billion dollars a year on skin care products and make up alone. Not to mention the 10.2 billion spent of plastic/cosmetic surgeries every year. This equates to over 52 billion dollars spent on trying to make ourselves beautiful. Why is that? Because the world of women is nothing, but a game of who's better. It always has been. Except for the exceptional few, the whole population of women in the United States is fighting with each other to be prettier, to be noticed more, to get guy's attention.
On some one's wedding day, everyone is focused on the brides beauty. How incredibly beautiful she looks, and elegant, and all the attention is focused on her. Every woman out there wishes she could get this kind of attention. Where no matter what she is the most beautiful, but in reality life is like prom. In the weeks leading up to prom girls prepare by getting the most beautiful dress, by getting the most amazing accessories, by getting the best makeup. On Prom day, they scramble all day to look their best, they are competing with everyone else to look and feel the best. Why? Because they know they will be judged as soon as the pictures are uploaded, they arrive, and their appearance is shown to the world. This is how life is for women right now, we are in a never ending competition to look the best. But what if we turned around, and said no? I will not try to live up to every one's beauty standards. I will be who I want to be, and makeup can not get me there, for my success will not be measured in beauty increments, but by how far I go in life, how I treat others, and how I see myself when I look in the mirror from now on.
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