Beauty

As I walk around the school, I find that there's a misconception on the term 'beauty'. I know right, I've been through this stage too. The stage where everything that is attention grabbing is awsm and cool. The stage where I carried fireengine-red bags to school and wore "coolio cheerleader shoes" with red ribbons as shoelace (someone kill me already).

In the school that I'm teaching in, there are some "models" of cool:

girls:

short skirts,
outrageous hair accessories,
colored hair,
piercings (everywhere!- gone were the days where 4 piercing on each ear is considered "wrong", piercings now extends to tongues (PeiJin), noses (Jerlin), lips (JingYi), and maybe even more),
accessories in general,
shoes with a hint of color,
ankle socks (duh),
hair flying all around,
basically anything that breaks the school rule.



guys:

spiky hair (which I secretly adore),
buttons all the way up (which was cool for a while until the mds came and mass produced this look),
piercings,
thin eyebrows (urgh, h8 this ttm. don't, please. think Charlie Simpson hot),
tapered pants (that's so "my-generation")



I think if you're beautiful, you'll attract attention naturally, with or without such embellishments.

On the contrary, if you're not, doing such things to look "different" and hence to "stand out" will merely tell people how insecure you are of yourself, to have to resort to using such "make up" to package your true self. People may also feel that you're "trying too hard" or you're merely "following the trends blindly" (aka copy cat). There is a difference between "standing out" and "sticking out".



Think about it, in a world where everyone is wildly made up, looking oh so crazy and out of the norm, the only ones who will stand out and be in the limelight are the natural beauties. It may be ironic at first. But think about how the quiet and helpful girl in your class has the most suitors, and how the loud and "bitchy" girl gets the negative attention in class.


This is life.



Make up isn't just about products and mascara and eyeliner (I know right), it is the things you do to yourself to well, make yourself up! The way you present yourself, the way you speak, the things that you do. All these are part of the unconventional "make up".



Speaking of which,






this is make up,



and this,






is what I term "make down"






Sometimes, less really is more.