Undoing the Natural

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Sometimes, you don't even know something is "wrong" until someone pointed it out to you and give you ideas that the "wrong" is unacceptable and must be changed.

I'm talking about female looks. When I was in high school, suddenly STRAIGHT HAIR is an It Thing. Many girls started to go to the salon and have their curly/wavy hair straighten out permanently until it regrows. It seems like you are only pretty if you have straight hair and friends will encourage you to straighten your hair. My hair was wavy and at one point of time I was guilty for committing the hair straightening trend but I didn't redo it when my hair start to grow back to its wavy ways. 2 reasons for this : back then it was expensive and I couldn't really care and I kindda missed my wavy hair.

I also see my friends being obsessed with plucking their eyebrows because according to them, if your eyebrows are shaped nicely, it will enhance your looks. Unless your eyebrows are really thick or thin or both your eyebrows connected to each other, I wouldn't really notice any problem with your eyebrows. I never plucked my eyebrows because I was never unhappy about how my eyebrows look until one incident happened to me which still didn't really change my opinion about my eyebrows.

I accompanied my ex stepmom to a salon because the bitch wanted to get her eyebrows plucked. Then one of the workers there asked me whether I wanna do mine and i said no. In an attempt to change my mind and get more money, the stupid bitch said my eyebrows look like a man and if I were to shape them nicely, I will look pretty. Fuck u. But I was young then, in my late teens so instead of being super angry, I was semi angry but more hurt and suddenly become self conscious of my looks no thanks to that stupid insensitive whore. But I'm proud to say that i never once plucked my eyebrows despite friends telling me I should give it a try. The reason why i never do it :

1. i don't like people telling me how i should look.
2. i have no time for eyebrows plucking.
3. I couldn't give a shit about it.
4. Waste of money. And even if i can do it on my own, i couldn't give a shit about it.
5. I dont have issues with my eyebrows and so what if others have?

What I'm trying to point out here by giving you example of my experiences is that society tells you what is pretty and what is not. Why should society dictate for you what's the ideal beauty? Below are what society dictates as pretty (in Malaysia) :

1. Fair skin.
2. Thin/Skinny/Slim.
3. Straight hair.
4. Big eyes.
5. Eyes with double eyelids.
6. And many more.

And so you have girls obsess with skin products to make their skin as white as a corpse and girls who wear thick eye makeup to make their eyes bigger. Now they have that ridiculous contact lense to make your pupil big and black. And that fake thing to make it look like you have double eyelids when in fact you don't.

Why do girls want to feel proud with their excessive makeup covering their facial flaws or plastic surgery to enhance their beauty when they are not natural and some temporary? Not only that, forcing others to such trend and if others don't join it, they will be taunt about how ugly they will look without the fake beauty enhancers.

Kindly do not force and pressure others into your idealistic beauty. And girls, please have more confidence in your self. No point aiming for perfection because nobody is perfect. Only God is perfect.