I recently watched Colbie Caillat's new music video for her song "Try". (If you haven't seen this video, I highly suggest you watch it; I'll link it below.) I've talked a little about my thoughts on appearance before but this video brought to light many thoughts I've been recently having.
Those of you that know me well know that I've been working full-time at a daycare this summer. Since I work 40 hours and then come home and usually spend a lot of time in bed, I haven't worn makeup to work. This hasn't always been the case, though. For about the first week I decided to try hard to look good for work. This, of course, involved makeup, styled hair, and semi-cute clothes (because there is always the risk of being spit up on in a daycare haha).
This information is minuscule in the grand scheme of things but I have to tell you all this in order to set up what I've learned. First, I work with kids. The most beautiful thing about children is the way they love. I can come in with super puffy dark eyes and dirty hair disguised as a bun on the top of my head and they do not act any differently towards me. They truly see passed the surface which is funny to me considering they are so much younger than people we deem "mature and intelligent".
I told my boyfriend recently that I've been feeling more confident lately. For some reason, when I look at myself at work now, I feel good about myself. I think this has to do with the children loving me no matter how I look but also something else. See, my roommates and I discussed this theory last year during one of our many late night couch sessions. We think that the more you wear makeup, the more you become disappointed in yourself and the more you don't wear makeup, the more you become happy with the way you look.
When a girl wears makeup everyday for an extended period of time, she ends up feeling disappointed in herself without it. It's like you look at yourself in the morning and say "Wow, is this how I really look? No wonder I cover this all up..." On the contrary, when you don't wear makeup, you get used to the way you look naturally and realize it isn't all that bad, in fact, it is probably insanely beautiful. My reasons for not wearing makeup consist of the fact that I'm lazy and my skin hates me when I wear makeup (aka it breaks out). Therefore when I don't wear makeup, my skin feels healthier and I feel happier about my appearance.
I actually want to challenge the small handful of my readers to do something. Don't wear makeup for a ____amount of time. For me, this has become not wearing makeup during the week and only wearing it on the weekends when I have a special event to go to. I feel like you have to go at least a week for this theory to go into affect. It's almost like you have to forget the way you look with makeup on in order to start to love the way you look without it. Try it and see how you feel after a week or two. It truly has made me love my natural self so so much more.
As always, thank you for reading and I hope your summers have been filled with love, laughter, and a fair amount of sunshine.
Colbie's Video
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