Wesley Reader
3 min readNov 5, 2024

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You are still beautiful, makeup or not!

Cosmetics gone wrong.

Ever wake up spending ages just to ensure you look pretty? Trying to create an image of you that is not you, laying layers of foundations just to look beautiful? Then after everything, you still look in the mirror and feel discouraged! Everything just looks scripted rather than natural. Do you even spend a minute to ask yourself, "Okay,” I'm pretty, but what's all this for? What if I just opted to stay natural?”I mean, nobody will beat you up for choosing who to be.

We sometimes spend ages trying to make up people who we are not, just because we want to impress someone else or maybe because we are not confident in the person we are. You spend ages to do that makeup and eyeliner, and later, when you see it in the mirror, the eyeliner itself looks like it could stop traffic. You start asking yourself if the makeup was worth it.

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Going natural sounds crazy, but for me it feels like the best and cheapest way to look pretty. If you embrace yourself just the way you are, you will obviously raise your self-esteem, and nobody will try to make you feel inferior. If you want a flat tummy, just work on your diet and exercise, and I promise you it won't fail you. Unless you want an easy way that might cost you a lot of money and maybe end up not being successful. We all love easy things. You just opt…

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Wesley Reader
Wesley Reader

Written by Wesley Reader

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