Friday 11 March 2016
“Cutaneous”
Happy Belated International Women's Day :)
The word cutaneous is an adjective which describes anything relating towards or affecting skin. In honour of International Women’s day i wanted to touch on this issue. As i know that it is a subject in which us ladies can suffer from severely ( and also some guys too!) First of all I just wanted to start off with saying there is no set way or principles in becoming skin confident. I feel like a lot of people say that theres a set way of getting over it and I feel like it kind of undermines how much of an issue it can be for people. A lot of the time we apologise for “not looking our best’ when we may be in our natural state , this is something I still struggle with daily. We all have parts of ourselves which we may not like and that is normal, however at the same time it makes us who who we are, it makes us different and it makes us beautiful.
I can use myself as an example of somebody who used to struggle with the concept of fully emerging in embracing my skin. I used to have a lot of hyper pigmentation growing up. This is where parts of your skin become darker than the normal surrounding colour, mine was around my forehead and is still on my eyelids. This was something that made me feel really self conscious and felt like I had to explain myself to others so it wouldn’t pointed out. How I overcame this was that I literarily stopped caring because I realised the big things that I notice about myself, are the things nobody else even sees. So i stopped caring and accepted myself, how I felt about it. This encouraged me to actually feel more comfortable in my own skin more and even feel confident when I am not wearing makeup.
Some days you may be spotty, with dark under eyes but the way you look does not define you! Marks, acne, or eczema on your skin are temporary and can always be worked.
How you are perceived becomes less important when you focus on how YOU may want others to perceive you as.
I hope everyone reading this realises how beautiful they actually are and will start today on the journey to appreciate their skin.
Love always
K x
email : sassykay101@gmail.com
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