Make up or Break up?

Today I would like to talk about make-up... you know... the stuff that you squeeze out of a tube in exactly the same shade as your skin, to put on your skin, so that it looks like, er, skin... except only it blocks up your pores so that your face can't breathe and you feel like you're walking around with cling-film on your head... Then there comes the blusher, so that you look pleasantly flushed and ever so slightly aroused... along with the gluey, sticky plastic lip gloss to make you look like you've just been snogged by a giant slimy, sea snail... I mean come on... really. I'm glad that the one girl I did fall in love with was a nature-loving hippie kinda gal, cause I'm not sure I could handle the lip glue, I mean, gloss... but it's radioactive raspberry flavour, what's not to like? Then comes the eyeshadow (in just the right shade to make your eyes 'POP!')  then the eyeliner (to make them really 'POOOP!!') and finally the mascara ('POOOOOP!!!'...) yeah, poop. Top that all off with a few quick spritzes of Eau de Chinese factory à la Synthetic Musk (mmmmm... fake deer's testicle smell...) and enjoy the feeling of your aura shrinking like a beautiful flower that has just been sprayed with weed killer. But wait... you are still naked (shhhhh!) and oh what an awful sight in the mirror... I really shouldn't have eaten that banana slim-fast for breakfast... where are my skinny jeans? Let me see if I can squeeze my feminine shape into a polyester cut out of a twelve year old boy... hmmm... this hurts my stomach... oh well. Suck it up. Ladies... Gentlemen... (and everyone inside out and in between...) what is it that we really want? Don't we all just wish that someone out there in the world could really see us?... and by see I really mean see... (you'll know the difference...) because if our eyes are the windows to our souls, then we are hurling them wide open, adorning them with flashing neon lights and 24hour 'OPEN' signs and screaming, please, please... connect with me on a deep level... see me... love me... and I mean really love me... (without my short skirt... my skinny jeans... my sky high shoes and my super sweet sugary slimy sea snail smooched smile... Seriously. When did submissive = sexy? Now, I think I better point out here, that I like make-up... (what?) yeah... I actually do. I think it can be an art form, a way of creative expression, and even a spiritual ritual... but, the intention is everything (as it always is...) and if you are covering yourself in cheap, synthetic, chemical-based products because you feel that your face is unworthy of appreciation, that your body is not yet good enough to be loved and that your soul should not yet be allowed to shine through the thin covering of skin that seemingly separates you from the rest of the universe... then take it all off. Go fill a sink with warm water, a few drops of essential rose oil and find a soft, clean face cloth. You are beautiful just as you are. No matter what anyone has ever told you, no matter what your mind continues to playback to you and no matter what you fear that other's will say in the future. Go outside, and if the sun is shining, let it soak into your skin and your spirit, or if the rain is pouring, let it freshen and enliven you... If you feel like morphing into a pretty glittering fairy, or a wild, fearless lioness, or a bright blue, beaded, braided Na'vi... by all means, whip out the make-up bag and go ape... but try to use natural products that nourish your skin and the planet (it's what Neytiri would use anyway...) and know that you are already all of these things. You are already a glittering lioness of immeasurable beauty... and your face reflects your inner peace, happiness, strength, self-acceptance and love, so let yourself shine from within. You will find that when you follow your truth, take your power back and love yourself as much as you wish another to love you, then your eyes will glisten and shine with joy, wide and open like a curious child trying to take in all the world's beauty, your face will be naturally flushed by the life force flowing strongly within you and your lips will be full and sensuous because your blood will be rich with ecstasy... (and Maybelline will go out of business... nah nah.) Have a beautiful day everybody and give me some feedback if you meet your soulmate at the bus stop wearing nothing but your gorgeous, natural smile... ;)  PEACE and LOVE............................ <3