The Mad Aesthetic

Your grandmother's beauty routine didn't include chemical peels, retinol or pharmaceutical creams. She didn't chase her age away with laser beams, stainless steel scalpel blades, ultrasonic radio waves, peptide chains...Needle-point was still just an art form and not a ubiquitous ad campaign for making her face look the same as everyone else's. "Tox-parties" were still just "Tupperware", and anything else that came packaged in plastic got side eyed at the supermarket. Now all the eyes are too dense with lashes, brows are permanently unfurrowed and artificially ashen. Lips no longer have variation, they're all looking like overdone situations. Wrinkles from worry, and focus, and laughter; look at her photos from before & after. You'll see her youthful, beguiled eyes, fast forwarding later, not frozen in time. Animated, real, and unparalyzed. Muscles moved freely to showcase expression; love, enthusiasm, regret and compassion, frustration, anger, even dissatisfaction. Nowadays you can't tell the difference. Women are programmed to get their injections; fillers, plumpers, synthetic additions... as I dare to reject this construct, hopefully the rest of the world will play catch-up. If you think your beauty fades, re-frame these ideas that keep you caged. Freedom from financial burdens and pressures, jars of nonsense that don't help whatsoever - it can be so much simpler once you learn - skin doesn't want you to be so obedient, slathering on active ingredients. Following 4 steps, 6 steps, or more...it's happiest with less work to rebalance and restore. The more we bombard skin with product & procedure, compromised barriers allow damage deeper. The whole world seems to be going in a crooked direction, so I send you this message as a little objection - don't be so fooled that you don't stop to question - have you been informed of long term consequences? Remember there's always two sides to consider. Some of the pitfalls hide behind glitter. Youthful glows don't come from a bottle, a needle, or products promoted by models. The truth is your glow radiates outward from within. And the health of your body is mirrored by skin.

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Blockages exist.
Congestion happens.

Everything we consume - mentally, energetically, orally, topically - gets integrated, processed, eliminated.
Often there is interference.

Do not under any circumstances pick your skin.
"...marking territory like 'here lies trauma'."

There's definitely a psychosomatic aspect to it.

People see themselves in such a harsh light.

Your skin isn't concerned with looking perfect.

It's too busy doing other things to balance itself from all your interventions and communicate it's needs.

Let someone who is learning it's language do the translations.

Age old wisdom:

"Do Not Pick it, you'll make it worse."

There are many degrees and forms of "things to pick". Unless you're a trained skincare professional, you'll likely not (fully) understand what is needed in the event of some condition erupting. Sometimes proper extraction is possible, others need downtime, and lots in between.

When you squeeze to the point of blood, the follicle wall ruptures; if there was pus, that means bacteria, which can now spread via broken follicle wall, hello sister brother zit.

Picking scrapes off the surface of the skin, leaving raw skin exposed, sole defense being melanin, causing lingering spotty pigmentations of varying shades (depending on your skin tone) marking territory like "here lies trauma".

Remind yourself it's not worth it. Pop in for a half session tailored treatment instead. 💛

Stomata on leaves are like follicles in skin;
openings assisting in gas exchange.
The Breathing.
🌬️💨🍃

Microscopic footage of the stomata of a plant leaf opening and... Microscopic footage of the stomata of a plant leaf opening and closing sped up 140 times. Core Number: FKRC091D

Protective coating of a tree,
Layered skin just like me.
Water moves all underneath,
Bark protects - it's a keratinized sheath.
Fluid patterns thru and thru,
Yes, it's also just like you.
So if you feel like peeling it off,
Remember it's job is to stay there, tough.
Beneath it's surface, important patterns.
Divinely designed to provide what matters.
Xylem and phloem are the veins and arteries,
Water and glucose building every part of me.
Biological process - the blueprint is ancient,
All that it asks is for you to be patient.
Let it be, it knows what to do,
It's highly intelligent, just like you.
Trust your body like you trust the trees
To take what it's given and provide what it needs.

-Madeleine