SPOILER ALERT: I stopped blogging. No, sadly, nothing
grand happened. I actually live a really boring life. I am sure some of you are
wondering why I stopped blogging. To be honest, I spent all this time trying to
think of all these different things to sit down and blog about and I would type
it all up and then I would just hit exit because I didn’t want to do it. I
don’t even exactly know where I am going with this blog but all I am going to
say is that makeup is not everything in life. We live in a world where everyone
literally wants to one up one another and it is just weird AF to me. Like yes, having
“stuff” is awesome. Having a huge makeup collection would honestly make me
smile from ear to ear but you know what’s better? Having a body plump full of personality. Your $22 eyeliner or $45 highlighter is not
giving you a personality... YOU are the one in charge of giving yourself a
personality. Side note, the expensive highlighters are still the best
highlighters. What I am getting at though is that makeup doesn’t mean anything...
Makeup is literally just an outlet for people to be creative and it makes them
feel good about themselves. There is such a huge stigma with any type of girl. We can’t win. Girls
who wear a lot of makeup are obsessed with themselves, girls who wear boots are
hick, and girls who show cleavage want attention, blah blah blah blah, we all
want attention because it is human nature. Any who, girls should not walk past
girls and be like OMG she has winged eyeliner; she must be so full of herself.
What girls should do it girls should walk past other girls and be like OMG her
wing is on point and then wonder if they can make friends with that girl so
hopefully that girl with the eyeliner can help the less fortunate! I am no
saint nor am I trying to be one. Cats out of the bag cause I judge people too
(maybe that should have been my spoiler alert). The part where I get annoyed is
cause we let people do that to us. I mean, why does everyone sit there and be
so concerned about what people think anyway and then why do we get upset about
it? The people who have assumptions about you most likely do not know you. People
spend so much time worrying about what people think and honestly, people just
need to chill out for a sec and be who they are and not who someone wants them
to be. Real time talk now, I let ONE person’s
opinion stop me from doing something that I LOVED (cough cough, my blog). I
didn’t put a blog post up for like a month and I had people be like WHERE ARE
YOU? Now, almost a year has passed and I still haven’t posted and I still get
asked where the hell I am. P.S. I still like makeup and I still like doing
makeup... I just realized that I was trying to be “that girl” who has all of
this makeup and all of these expensive brands and for what? What the hell is
all of this makeup doing to do in my drawer anyway? I only have one face and
half of the time I am too damn lazy to do anything with it anyway! I guess I
went into my blog with no real sense of “direction” and I just kinda went on to
wing it (just like my eyeliner). Then once when I realized that I didn’t know
what I wanted, I just stopped (everyone who actually knows me is probably
smiling to themselves right now because that is so true about me). I knew that I didn’t want to just be doing
makeup because I have too many things to say than to just paint a face all day.
I want to write things that make peoples day! I just want someone to be able to
relate to me in areas other than makeup! I honestly just want to help people
feel confident enough in them to do different things! Real time talk 2.0, don’t
let someone’s opinion discourage you from doing something that you really want
to do. You want to wear some bomb dark liquid lipstick? DO IT. You want to
change your major in school? DO IT. DO WHATVER YOU WANT because life is a
pretty badass thing when you just start letting life fall into place rather
than calculating your every move. Back roads will always make you laugh WAY more
than the highway (depending on who you are with). So, surround yourself with
people who would be down for BOTH the rides and ditch the ones who aren’t. Life
is too great to be boring and life is also too short to sit there and wonder
what it would have been like if you took a leap of faith and just went with it.
I truly hope everyone can relate to this blog post on more than just a makeup
level. I hope they can relate to it on a personal level. I literally hope you
(yes, you) can go out and be like “I am totally going to have a kick ass day
today” because that is literally all I want from this. So, that is that. I may have
more blogs. I might not. I just gotta figure out my own direction with this
thing and it may be a little squiggly… Which is totally cool.
Also, I hope this picture made your day as much as it made mine.
Xoxo,
Clarissa
