you'll never meet another me

pronoun doesnt matter isfp (fi-se-ni-te) scorpio sun/moon | virgo rising

[depsidase]

[brucebocchi]

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

Ominous positivity

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

You will be okay. You have no choice.

[jadedsoggy]

Everything will turn out fine. You cannot stop it.

[justabirdy]

You will succeed. It is inevitable.

[karrakazz]

possibly controversial opinion: i think “natural” makeup is, over time, more damaging than bold, obvious makeup

[solacekames]

I don’t think that’s controversial at all. 

[solacekames]

@qualr sure I’ll explain :-)

Mainly because makeup itself, the generic concept, is an integral part of human identity. People have always done it (even Neanderthals used makeup) and we’re always going to keep doing it. The concept of decorating our faces/bodies with colored pigments is practically hardwired and on a deep level just plain FUN (look at how much kids love to get their faces painted at fairs and carnivals and so on). The concept is also totally gender neutral. In some societies, men traditionally do it more than women, for example. Using your own body as a canvas for art taps into a mystical, childlike sense of wonder. First you look one way, then… another! Like magic. 

But mainstream commercial makeup culture as it exists today is incredibly exploitative, misogynist, colonialist, colorist, and hurts women, especially poorer women and women who don’t fit the racial ideal as expressed by the mainstream corporate beauty industry. And a big part of that is pushing “natural” looks. All women are supposed to look “naturally” poreless, for example (which isn’t realistic or healthy) and are punished socially and often financially if we aren’t. Another example: contouring is supposed to accentuate the “natural” lines of your face but for me and a lot of other Asian women with moonfaces, it’s the furthest thing from natural! The further you are from the rich thin young lightskinned bigeyed straightsmallnosed highcheekboned look, the more weirdly artificial the word “natural” becomes. We’re supposed to sink all this time and money and resources into achieving this bullshit “natural” look until it all feels a bit like Sisyphus rolling the stone up the hill. 

Putting a bright blue streak on your eyelids and walking out the door might take five seconds and probably makes you feel expressive and happy and good about yourself, even if it seems “tacky” through the lens of mainstream makeup culture. But taking an hour and trying soooo hard, using all the latest expensive products to make it seem like you’re not really trying at all, makes a lot of women feel worse about themselves, not better. In fact it leads to a lot of women feeling insecure about their real face and their real skin. There are many ways to look garish, but only ONE way to look “natural”. Instead of turning your own face into a canvas where you’re the creative artist, you’re following a ruthless set of instructions and doing a sort of strict paint-by-numbers that you’re never going to do right anyway. So it represents giving up more power over your own face/body than you’re actually getting back. Subjugation to the social norm, not creativity.

[skunkes]

[forestgreenlesbian]

[unbotheredmuse]

[thatsbelievable]

[decrolise]

[catchymemes]

[theneurotypicals]

when you’re in therapy and you feel fine but then you get home and your mental illness is like ‘welcome home honey how was therapy’

[guywife]

#when your mental illness picks you up from therapy

[cuttingchai-deactivated20260528]

an accurate representation of my tumblr dashboard

[kahzu]

[511am]

Evolution of Nissan

[thetyrannosaur]

My cat does this before throwing up

[pretty-boys-bitch]

[zabadi]

literally all tv shows should be limited series. figure out what ur doing and where ur going and pitch that i dont ever want to see a 5+ season show ever again

[byjove]

Me: *Removes my cat from my lap to do something else.*

My cat: Father is...evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The spiritual successor to Miette

[manicgoblinnightmarewoman]

Might I also add

[shydestinybread]

May i add the piece from artist Hannah Hillam

[edwaddd-deactivated20141015]

i only type in lowercase because i hate capitalism