Beauty

I went pedicure today, my very first time. She wash my feets, scrub them with salt in a tub of hot water. After a bit of massages, she went into treating my toes.

She uses a type of oil which soften my nails and start shaping it. She trim, shape the nail. Then i noticed she start cutting the cuticles. She said she's cutting away the excessive ones. That makes me wonder why do medicurist do that, so i went to research on the subject of "cuticles" and realised that cuticles is a good layer of dead skin that joint both finger and nails together. It protect us from intrusion of bacterias. So why do they cut it away? Ok fine, for beauty sack. It looks bit un tidy especially there is excessive of dead skin around your nails. So they soften the cuticles for easy pushing back and exposed the unwanted cuticles to be removed. Then again she said, the often you treating the cuticles, the harden it becomes. That's true. The same thing when i remove dead skin around my nails. So you NEED to treating your cuticles often.

I wonder, since it might create a regular workshop to maintain nails/cuticles in shape, why would people bother to do so? It isn't really bother me as it stays with me for years and further, it shouldn't be removed at the first place since it plays such an important part of our health.

It led my thoughts to other beauty treatment, like make ups. Cosmetics contains of chemicals which bleach your skin, i can't really tells how it works. But you can tell women who make up a lot would tends to lose the natural colors of her skin, resulted she has to keep relying on cosmetics. Some told me otherwise, the pale looking skin was resulted we so used to her look after make up but i strongly believed the prior ones.

Cuticles remover is man maintenance, make up is cosmetic maintenance.Whichever it's, it's same analogy, we need to reply on something to maintain our beauty.

To me, i believed develop inner health and shine on the outside. Face can be blushing if we were healthy, complexion can be good if we drink lotsa water, eat healthily, regular exercise etc (of course facial helps, however i tried to avoid it as well as it require regular maintenance to keep up with standard). Again, it led to discipline and confident issues. Imagine if you missed couple of facials treatment, you might lose your confident.

Again, that tells a beautiful woman, i'm referring to those hair always well groomed, nail polised, full make ups, flawless skin requires very high maintenance. One can remain as that if you're born rich or you spent time no others but beauty, Right? Then i wonder, why bother so much of making oneself good looking but lacking of personality? Why pleasing other where you lose your own identity? Life has so much of other priority than looking beautiful.

Why not just be yourself?