I can't recognize you anymore

I've been longing to write about this subject for the longest time and now it will all be laid down.

Bleached hair and wacky colored contact lenses. Tons of make up piled and piled and piled in an effort to achieve a flawless and perfect face. Girls willingly subject themselves to tedious routines to look polished and pretty as they step out of their doors and face the day. Because of this, I can't help but feel that most girls today have become slaves of forever struggling to achieve society's brand of beauty.

This image has been haunting me for so long. It testifies make up's capability of transformation and possibly detaching from one's true and natural self. Most of the things that you see are fake: fake eyelashes, eye liner and contact lenses to make the eyes bigger. The disparity between the two sides of her face is so glaring, it's actually scary.

I will be a hypocrite when I'm condemning make up so much when I myself use it.I do put on a bit of lipstick to add some color, and for special occasions I dab on a natural palette on my face, that's it. I firmly believe that make up should primarily be able to accentuate your natural features, not transform you into someone who your friends would not be able to recognize anymore.

Girls will strive to achieve the perfect look but what they don't know that is is actually a futile attempt- because 95% of what they want to get is f.a.k.e. They don't know that the glossy girl that they are envying is actually wearing hair extensions,  clip- on bangs, and again- contact lenses and fake eyelashes. Her hair has been bleached and colored and 50 shades far from her original hair color. Is a woman's natural beauty regarded so low these days that girls will resolve to subscribe to things that are fake to "fix" it? Why do they feel the need to "fix" it? I really do hope that girls, specially the younger ones, will learn to be comfortable with their selves and feel confident and proud of the natural beauty that they inherently posses. Yes you look absolutely pretty with the ton of makeup you just put on, but people are appreciating the mask that you just painted, not the real face behind it.

Finally done

Finally I'm done with the layout of this blog... this is my 3rd attempt at blogging and somehow I just couldn't find my "niche" or what I would want to constantly write about. While I was on my unplanned hiatus from blogging, I reflected deep and hard about the things that were happening around me. There are just so many thoughts going around my head that I just had write them down. There are also times that an idea would just pop into my head and I had to put it down lest I forget it. And since there was a ton of schoolwork that I had to do before I graduate, I just couldn't find the time to put this blog together.

This particular blog of mine is primarily and greatly influenced by the president of my university, Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ. The whole gist of his idea is using the social media, particularly blogging, to express your opinions and influence others. This may be the closest thing that I may have to do in terms of exercising the skills that I have gained in my journalism class back in my junior year of college.

Another factor that influenced me in putting up with this blog is my interview with a local blogger. When your popularity will sky- rocket because of your blog, you can't help but be superficial about the content that you are going to write. There are also some that blog just for the freebies and perks.

I feel that there are so much more matters happening around us that need to be reflected upon. Hopefully I can maintain this and somehow spark a reflective and critical attitude to whoever may read my blog.