fangirlinginleatherboots:

teaching children that they are allowed to walk away and cool off if they are feeling overwhelmed might literally save their life as teens/adults

useful-lesbian:

butchscientist:

i genuinely can’t conceptualize regularly wearing makeup not messing with your perception of your natural face like. ok sure if people say that they don’t feel that way i take that at face value but honestly back when i tried to wear makeup semi regularly i would only wear some concealer and maybe mascara but i remember the more i wore it the uglier my natural face felt, the more obvious the bags under my eyes seemed, the more redness i saw around my nose, the uglier my eyelashes looked without makeup.

did anything physically change about my natural face? no! but concealing those things on my face inherently involved viewing them as flaws to be concealed, and the more i did that & saw my face “corrected” & got used to that the more those parts of my natural face felt like something gross and bad.

I have a friend who used to work at Sephora. She was (and still is) a huge makeup fan and was thrilled to work there at first. Since it’s a makeup store, the women there are expected to wear full face to show off the product.

Several months into her employment, I met up with her at a restaurant and the first thing she did was excuse herself to the bathroom to clean all her work makeup off. Her work look was really nice, so I was surprised and asked her why.

Wearily, she said she realized that wearing full makeup every day was making her hate her normal face. She was seeing her natural face so rarely that when she did it looked puffy and splotchy and wrong to her. She hated this feeling, and was trying to combat her crumbling self esteem by removing her makeup right away after work.

“But it’s hard,” she admitted, “I still don’t like seeing myself without it.” This really stuck with me. My friend was such a huge makeup advocate, but even she was intuitive enough to realize it’s negative impacts on her. And it was thanks to her, that I started weaning myself off makeup as well.

vampireapologist:

i love that moment of absolute acceptance and tranquility that washes over you exactly 1 minute and 35 seconds before an exam begins. when you look at the notes you’ve been trying to absorb and realize that at this point you’re either ready or you’re not and you put them away and all the anxiety and doubt you had up until this moment just floats off you like steam from a hot summer sidewalk after a storm.

i think this exact situation is where actors who have to die on-screen draw their inspiration. that look in their eyes when they realize their wound doesn’t hurt anymore, and they look at their friend, their face awash with acceptance and near-relief, and the light leaves their eyes,

they learned that in a stats class.

merrrpppp:

I would like one large order of intimacy and affection pls. With fries.

kosmonin: