It doesn't take too long of being on social media to be swarmed by an array of beauty standards. Girls are supposed to look natural yet flawless at the same time. They are supposed to have perfectly long black lashes without piling on a ton of product. They must have smooth skin without a spot on it without looking like a bit of product has touched their skin. Girls are expected to look like photoshop walks around beside them every single day without looking like they are trying at all. But the question is who are these girls trying for?
Society says to be who you are without giving it a second thought. Society also says to fit standards and invisible molds made up by people in Hollywood who sit behind a desk job. If ordinary people have the power to dictate how I should be expected to look why don't I have the power to say no? Why am I looked at strange for the days when I wear no makeup because maybe I feel confident in my own skin? But why am I also looked at from judgmental eyes when I walk around on a Tuesday afternoon wearing a smokey eye for no one other than myself? Where are these invisible lines at and who are the people who say you must stay inside of them?
Lines were made to be crossed and rules were made to be broken. In the words of the queen of makeup, Jaclyn Hill, "There are no rules in makeup, and if there were I would break them anyway." Feel confident in yourself for who you are instead of how the world wants to define you. You are so much more than the smears of your lipstick or the smudges from your mascara. You are all of the things behind those pigments that your life represents. You are the way you choose to express yourself, and you are the way that your beauty shines from within. You have no flaws and you have no areas that need help. You are you, perfectly beautiful in every way without an ounce of help. You are the life goals and the fierce look. Your confidence exudes through you and your heart will always say more about you than any amount of makeup ever could.
You are beautiful. Don't ever feel like you are less than that. You are uniquely you. Don't ever feel like you have to compare. For every "imperfection" that you see about yourself, there are a million people out there who would view you as perfect. And isn't that what is really beautiful about life?
