Recently I’ve been thinking about how some things, beauty and otherwise, that I never thought I’d like and vehemently voiced my distaste for are now things that I really enjoy. Never say never…
NATURE. When I was younger my family were big into UK camping holidays. I spent my summer holidays building forts out of ferns, wearing a lot of bold-printed fleece and freezing my nuts of in a sleeping bag. I loved the fresh air, the long walks, meatballs out of a tin for dinner – lovely. Then I became a teenager who thought I was too cool for school and too cool to go camping. Fast forward 10 years and Mark and I actually go away with my parents and camp in a little two-man tent each summer (and I enjoy it!) AND we even got a National Trust membership for Christmas. I love a bit of greenery these days. Who’d have though it, eh?
CONTOURING. Now I must preface this and say that I don’t think I’m ever going to be one to contour my collarbone or the back of my neck, but I do enjoy making my cheekbones look less blunt. I’ve mentioned before how I’m fascinated with contouring tutorials and though I’ve given a few of them a go myself (much to the bemusement of the Postman who perhaps wonders why I look like Pete Burns that day), I stick to the basics when I’m planning on actually leaving the flat.
GOING TO THE GYM. I’m sure you’re sick of me bleating on about this (for those rolling their eyes, you’re going to love tomorrow’s video *insert winking face*), but I never thought I’d be someone who could be pinned down to a gym routine for longer than a month. At school I was never the worst at P.E, but I was never the best either and I once remember a teacher yelling at me during a football match that his Grandma ran faster than me. Nowadays this Grandma actually quite enjoys working up a sweat.
BROWN LIPSTICK. Being too young in the ’90’s to really wear makeup, I managed to skip the whole brown lipstick thang and by the time I became a cosmetic wearer it was all about the gloss on the lips. The oiler and juicer looking – the better. Now there seems to have been a 180 and despite thinking that brown lipstick was forever gross and made my teeth look yellow, I found myself at a MAC counter last week swatching the brownest lipsticks I could find on the back on my hand AND I actually walked away with one. MAD (plus it doesn’t make my teeth look too yellow)…
BIG BROWS. Isn’t fashion funny? Remember the Spice Girls back in the day? Between them they had about 10 eyebrow hairs. Being a naturally monobrowed nine year old I too wanted my brow hair count to be in single digits. So one night I cut them off with nail scissors. PAH! These days the more brows I have on my forehead the better. Heck – I even use brow products; pencils, gels, waxes, mascaras. Brows are a thing! I just wish 9 year old me knew that. It would have saved me 10 years of regrowth and stubbly brows.
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