Yesterday while on social media I watched a video of a young lady applying her make-up. She took us through the entire process and it must have taken her somewhere around 30-40 minutes to apply it but she time lapsed it so it was narrowed down to just over 8 minutes. When she was all done she looked like a totally different person, you could not decipher any of her original traits, well accept her eye color. My comment on the video was “she really invested a lot of time and money in this process”.
Watching that video made me think about a few things;
1. Do you dislike your looks so much that you would invest the time and money it takes to not only make yourself over but really make yourself look like a totally different person, even lighter in complexion (she had several scars and dark patches on her face)?
2. What else could she have invested that same time and money in?
3. Does she know God, I mean really know Him?
4. If I were a guy getting to know her better I would be totally upset that she doesn’t look like the face she put on.
Now I can make all kinds of assumptions as to why she has gone through the trouble to do this to herself and because I don’t know her I will have to assume. While this young lady did have several scars on her face, very dark patches of skin and dark circles on and under her eyes, she was not unattractive. I can suppose that she did this because she was not pleased by her looks and is working on accepting herself exactly as she is without the cover-up. I can suppose that she has received years of negative reactions from men that she may have found attractive and wanted to date. I can suppose that she is not happy with her darker complexion and wanted to be just a tad lighter, the layers and layers of makeup she applied made her at the very least a shade lighter than her natural complexion.
Because she did such an excellent job at application and her technique was amazing, I wonder if she has gone to school to become a makeup artist and if she gets paid to do this for others. She is an expert at what she's doing. I wonder that because the process took quite a bit of time to complete and she used several products, which means she’s invested a decent amount of money in cosmetics. It would only make since that she’s received an education, certification and is hired to make others over for a nice sum of money. If not, what else could she do with her time and money that she spent on “perfecting” her looks?
I ask if she knows God because my hope is that if she did know Him then she would realize that there was no need to take 30 minutes or more out of every day, not to mention the touch-up time, to totally look like someone else. God made her in love, to love not only others but herself. If you have that kind of love for yourself, that God love, then it will not matter what another person thought of your looks because you are not conforming to society’s definition of attractive but God’s definition of beauty. Love God above all, then love self, then love your neighbor as you love yourself. How are you loving your neighbor if you can’t even love yourself.
Lastly, if I were a dude that met her in a club, at church, in the grocery store or a laundry mat I would be pissed. Why? Because she’s false advertising, she sold me a bill of goods but there was nothing good about it. If I got to know her better as a man and we spent more time together, sure I would say she’s wearing makeup because it would be obvious but it would not cross my mind that she’s wearing that much makeup and looks so different without it. Being vain about someone else’s looks would not be the issue, the issue would be that I would feel lied to, betrayed, taken for a sucker and I may want nothing more to do with her no matter how much I’d learned to like her as a person.
One other thing; this transformation is major and I only want to be transformed this completely by God. I want to be who He wants me to be. Please understand that I am not judging this young lady, I am not condemning her at all but watching her tutorial really made me think about those that do this major cover-up on a regular basis. It makes me ask; what are you really trying to hide?
I say all of this to say, people be happy with who God made you to be. By happy with how God made you and if you become scarred along the way you have to be able to look at yourself and say my beauty comes from within because God planted it in me before I was born. He created me in love. My beauty is not in what others think of me, it isn't even 100% in what I think of myself. My beauty is in what God has said about me.
I was going to post her video here but decided that getting sued was not on my agenda, so I'll just say go to ytube and look up makeup tutorials. She's a pretty African American young lady who makes you think of the pink haired female rapper.
Walk in your purpose people!
Peace and blessings wonderful people and love yourself.
Jai ar
