Natural Beauty
By mati. Filed in Beauty |Tags: Beauty
I love Carmindy’s concept that she introduces in her book “Get Positively Beautiful,” that everyone of us are beautiful in our own ways. We have this little negative voice inside our heads that start yapping every time we look in the mirror. “Look at those lines, look at those dark circles, oh, you just got a new spot, and I wish my nose was smaller and my chin was tighter, bla, bla, bladibla…”
She says, “When was the last time you looked in the mirror and said “Hi gorgeous!” or “You’re hot!”? For some strange reason, we always listen more to the negative voice in our heads, than to anyone’s compliments, and this attitude has to change.
Instead of focusing on everything we don’t like about ourselves, we must shift the focus to what we actually do like, and enhance this.
I say “enhance,” not “cover up.” Unfortunately, many makeup gurus believe that the older we get, the more we should just cover ourselves under a thick, mask like layer of makeup. Not so. We must make our natural beauty shine by enhancing our best assets with subtle, sheer makeup colors that makes it look like we are just naturally radiant. I much prefer this look, where people can see the effect of your makeup without being able to tell how much makeup you are really wearing, than the halloween like cover up of heavy makeup. It is definitely an art – to subtly enhance without piling it on with a spacle knife.
Anyway, if you want to know what your best assets are, stand in front of a mirror with your eyes closed. Open your eyes quickly and close them again. What was the first thing that caught your attention? Was it your eyes? Your cheeks? Your lips?
Whatever it was, that is the part that you must always be enhanced with some kind of subtle makeup. Do you have beautiful round cheeks, deep mysterious eyes or lushious lips? Bring it out more! This is your own unique beauty. Like they said in the Cover Girl Declaration, we must “Stand up for our beauty.” Just remember, there is a million ways to be beautiful – just being yourself is enough!
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