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and-classics · 3 months ago

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when people conflate skincare with makeup in their diatribes about fearing ageing or whatever the fuck the thesis statement is, it makes me want to scream honestly do you floss? do you stretch? do you put on hand cream when you've been in an extremely drying environment and your skin is about to split bc you do in fact understand how the rest of your skin works? why do you think supporting the functioning of the skin on your face is somehow unnecessary while you acknowledge that all the other functions of your body need support as you move through life??? it is your body's first line of defence!

#like 'ageing skin' doesn't just spontaneously happen at a certain age. it happens when your skin can no longer repair itself alone #just like losing mobility happens because you don't have enough movement just like our heart health needs fibre and omega 3 #if you want to embrace ageing embrace maintaining your bodily functioning with the methods that are within your ability and control #with skin that doesn't crack and peel any time you're in the slightest extreme #and weeping sores in your 80s because your skin is so thin it can't handle any kind of abrasion and struggles to heal itself #the 'at most you need an spf' people make me want to throw handssss you are wrong and harmful and too young to know anyway #also the disdain with which they talk about people who wear makeup reveals much deeper internalised misogyny #than the girls who think they personally need to wear it #this post brought to you by being annoyed in the shower about a post i successfully scrolled past an hour ago

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