Yes. It is. I love being beautiful. It takes work, effort. Of course. You don't just wake up in the morning gorgeous, you have to work at it. If I chose not to put the effort in, trust me when I say that I could easily be hideous! I mean, for a woman, there is much to do. We have to exercise, shave our entire body, do our hair, our nails, our toes (and I do all this myself, nail salons give me migraine headaches. It's either the fumes or the little Asian girls chattering incessantly in another language as though I'm not there... or both), makeup. On top of all that we (most of us) have to deal with the whole period thing once a month. How much more work is it to try to be beautiful during THAT ridiculousness? Sometimes it just isn't even possible.
So yes. It is a lot of work being beautiful, but the payoff is well worth it. You feel better. Empowered. In control. When you feel beautiful, you truly feel like you can accomplish anything. Well, anything in whatever time you have left over after getting yourself beautiful. If we were instantly beautiful, just woke up that way, and didn't have to put all that time and work into it... women would have long since taken over the world by now. We are on our way there, we just haven't quite had enough time due to the amount we spend getting and staying beautiful.
It's always nice to find short cuts and little tips along the way. There are a few little beauty secret short cuts that literally save my BUTT sometimes. Like using eye shadow to touch up roots when you haven't had time to color and something important springs up. That is one of my favorites. I saw somewhere online where some lady had marketed a powder to touch up your roots in a pinch. She was asking a pretty penny for it, too. Always the one to scrutinize before spending a dime, I did just that. Upon further inspection (and following up by testing my theory) this lady was basically selling EYE SHADOW for what must have been making her a fortune. It probably still is. Seriously, I need to come up with something like that!
The good thing was, I didn't pay a dime and I was able to glean an extremely useful beauty tip from my investigating and my theory. I may never have thought of that.
THAT is what's key. The realization that not everything has to cost a lot of money when it comes to beauty and beauty products. We probably have better ingredients in our cupboards at home that the most expensive products, for many things anyways. Fruits and dairy, weird medicines, like Prep H, Milk of Magnesia (Mylanta), and aspirin. Olive oil. Honey. The list goes on.
So, yes, it's always wonderful when you learn how to save a bit of time and keep your money in your bank while still staying beautiful! It comes from within. I always say that beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder. It's in the heart of the beautiful. Any beautiful woman could just as easily be ugly (way more easily, actually), just as any ugly woman could (well, not easily, like I said, it's hard work) be beautiful if she put forth the effort.
Bitches! Don't hate us because we are beautiful! We have a planet to take over! Before these brutish men destroy it completely.
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