We all have pores which are necessary to secrete sebum from the sebaceous glands that makes its way up the pore to the skin’s surface, resulting in natural moisturisation.
#CLINIQUE VS MAC BRUSH CLEANER SKIN#
I can crib around the clock as to why am I the ugly duckling or I can say well let’s make me better eh! Let’s face it most of us are confident and happy in our own skin but there are those times when we want more and so be it ladies! If I was to spill the beans on what I am not ecstatic about with regards to my face, then hands down it would be my open pores. Now, I have fairly decent skin (not the greatest I know) but consider myself fortunate with what I am in possession of. When I say invest I don’t necessarily imply money but time too by taking care of what you already have.
Just as we were taught as kids to study harder in hope of good results, or were told by our mums and grandmothers to oil our hair regularly to achieve longer stronger tresses, we are also told to invest in pampering ourselves with good treatments now and then to look more beautiful. With more exposure to beauty products and technology, it is natural to strive to enhance ourselves in the attempt to look our ravishing best. In fact it shows just how much you love yourself to want to do that. It’s not wrong to want to refine ourselves and long for improving what we have. What some of us can do is embrace the signs of ageing caused by a myriad of factors and with the help of a few products (who stick by us through thick and thin), reduce the appearance by camouflage or if we’re lucky minimize the flaws to some extent. Do skin imperfections make us less beautiful or less desirable or make us weep even at the very sight of our faces sans makeup? No.
Don’t get me wrong here, I’m sure a lot of you have blessed skin that evokes compliments and are compared to porcelain dolls and that’s great because you’re just lucky, but eventually the tell-tale signs of ageing do creep in and we have to face the harsh reality. Yes even our much-sought after heroines have pores, fine lines, the works, so we can rest at ease knowing it’s all good provided we give ourselves a little TLC and age gracefully. I mean can you imagine how abnormal you would look if your skin had that airbrushed look all the time? It looks good in magazines but in real life can look unnatural. Well, I have been holding on to this thought for quite some time and now through some years of research and a dose of much-awaited wisdom, have I realized that these tiny little things we perceive as flaws actually make us human. See the thing is, no matter how much we learn to live with them, left to our own devices, we would have them gone, thus yielding to flawless surfboard-smooth skin so velvety smooth that we wouldn’t require the dozen products that are accessible to us and life would be a whole lot simpler.