the price of beauty.....
beauty they say does not come easy for most...or beauty is pain...that was the most popular saying i heard about beauty growing up.....the pain part being 100 percent true when i had to comb my kinky hair, de-tangle it....and get it braided...i always used to cry and secretly curse at the hairdresser....of course being a child i never used the f word ( i would certainly hope not...lol....) but yeah.....whenever i cried....everyone would be like just think about how beautiful you would look when you hair is all done....like thinking about that was going to magically take away the throbbing pain that pulsated through my skull, penetrating deep into the cortical and sub cortical areas of my brain ( a little exaggeration). Beauty was pain...and the alternative was cutting your hair and looking like a boy....(not a choice i wanted)...but then came the relaxer (actually the relaxer was invented long before my time, but i only discovered it when i was in junior high)....yeah the relaxer was the remedy to my curly kinky roots....no more pain...or less pain after the burning sensation of the relaxer was washed off.....
The relaxer was good for a while...until the baldness sets in and my hair started falling....then i began to see the real effects of the relaxer....but i did not want my kinks back...so i stupidly wasted all my money on hair products that lied, much like a politician does....with empty promises plastered all over the container but never really leveling up to my expectation.....
so after 50 percent my hair had gone MIA, i decided to start from scratch...which meant plan c....cut it all off...start afresh...endure the pain all over again but then i found something else; the texturizer...it was perfect, my hair was straight but not too straight, but i always ended up with kinky hair after a while.....the cure.....leave the texturizer on for longer.....hahaha...lol....bad move, cos my hair really fell off and left me with bald spots on either side of my head. I officially had an unintentional Mohawk at a time when Mohawks were not stylish, so i was left with WIGS and weaves and braids trying anything to cover and recover my bald spots.....and that cost me a lot of green...
finally i went back to my natural roots....i had to look for a way to minimize the pain and this meant a whole day of tending to my hair. i recently came across a new way to straighten my hair and make it more manageable, it called the Brazilian blowout technique, it supposed to be good for my hair, and the straightening is temporary and last for a couple of months....but the price....yes the price of beauty would be the risk of getting cancer (related to formaldehyde) and the steep price.....but i tell myself just once wont give me cancer, even though i know the power of addiction especially to something that makes everyday better......
then there is the price to be fit and stay slim, there are several ways to achieve this....first don't eat....or restrict your calories....or eat healthy or be a vegan......i love to eat..the healthy part i could do but sometimes, i just want to munch a whole packet of my favorite cookie especially after i have tried to eat healthy....i get the cravings....so i thought....diet pills...this way i can cheat nature and stay slim and beautiful ( what society considers beautiful at least) but the side effects...one pill actually caused users to have liver failure....is it really worth it...to end up with cancer and liver failure just because i want to be beautiful.....being a nurse my health is always first...so no....totally not worth it......
there is always a price to pay to be beautiful, makeup causes skin problems, plastic surgery comes with the risk of death and very bad outcomes.....
but some would argue....that the feeling of being beautiful is worth more than the price they have to pay....i guess it depends on exactly what the price is....cos guess what except you die young...we are all going to get old, ugly and lose or muscle tone.....and when this happens.....i am quite sure that someone who has based their emotions on the outside would probably plunge into a pit of depression coupled with a healthy dose of self hate.....
I do agree, we all need to look and feel beautiful once in a while....especially as women....but at what price....at the end of the day we need to focus on the inside....cos outward beauty can be very costly, time consuming and fades away...washed away by the pursuits of life and the sands of time......but inner beauty lingers.....and brings with it rewards and self contentment......
The relaxer was good for a while...until the baldness sets in and my hair started falling....then i began to see the real effects of the relaxer....but i did not want my kinks back...so i stupidly wasted all my money on hair products that lied, much like a politician does....with empty promises plastered all over the container but never really leveling up to my expectation.....
so after 50 percent my hair had gone MIA, i decided to start from scratch...which meant plan c....cut it all off...start afresh...endure the pain all over again but then i found something else; the texturizer...it was perfect, my hair was straight but not too straight, but i always ended up with kinky hair after a while.....the cure.....leave the texturizer on for longer.....hahaha...lol....bad move, cos my hair really fell off and left me with bald spots on either side of my head. I officially had an unintentional Mohawk at a time when Mohawks were not stylish, so i was left with WIGS and weaves and braids trying anything to cover and recover my bald spots.....and that cost me a lot of green...
finally i went back to my natural roots....i had to look for a way to minimize the pain and this meant a whole day of tending to my hair. i recently came across a new way to straighten my hair and make it more manageable, it called the Brazilian blowout technique, it supposed to be good for my hair, and the straightening is temporary and last for a couple of months....but the price....yes the price of beauty would be the risk of getting cancer (related to formaldehyde) and the steep price.....but i tell myself just once wont give me cancer, even though i know the power of addiction especially to something that makes everyday better......
then there is the price to be fit and stay slim, there are several ways to achieve this....first don't eat....or restrict your calories....or eat healthy or be a vegan......i love to eat..the healthy part i could do but sometimes, i just want to munch a whole packet of my favorite cookie especially after i have tried to eat healthy....i get the cravings....so i thought....diet pills...this way i can cheat nature and stay slim and beautiful ( what society considers beautiful at least) but the side effects...one pill actually caused users to have liver failure....is it really worth it...to end up with cancer and liver failure just because i want to be beautiful.....being a nurse my health is always first...so no....totally not worth it......
there is always a price to pay to be beautiful, makeup causes skin problems, plastic surgery comes with the risk of death and very bad outcomes.....
but some would argue....that the feeling of being beautiful is worth more than the price they have to pay....i guess it depends on exactly what the price is....cos guess what except you die young...we are all going to get old, ugly and lose or muscle tone.....and when this happens.....i am quite sure that someone who has based their emotions on the outside would probably plunge into a pit of depression coupled with a healthy dose of self hate.....
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