Thanks to Yahoo for the “9 Simple Steps to Younger Looking Eyes” headline, which I clicked on thinking there would be a fun DIY tip. Instead, it took me to this article by Allure. (If you don’t want to click on it, 7 of the 9 steps suggest you buy something.) Your inspiration, along with every beauty magazine I’ve ever read, is invaluable.
I’m not even being facetious.
Food For Your Soul: For Heaven’s Sake, Just Have Fun
this made me lol! thank you so much for this.
Or maybe even it doesn’t matter if you are beautiful?
Sometimes I wonder how much I could have done with time I’ve spent worrying about my weight, face, hair and everything. Like I’m still going to cleanse and all that jazz. But one of things I like crunchiness is taking some worry ridden like if my skin is soft enough and turns it into a fun event where I smear food on face and then I walk around acting like its so normal to be covered in honey.
Maybe what pisses me off the most about the mainstream is that after all the photoshopping not even the model look like she did in the photograph. When they first started selling cellulite creams (which can’t work because it’s impossible for them to reach the fat cells) they had to use a teenager because all grown women have it.
Long comment, sorry! I guess I’m tired and your post made me think so now I’m rambling.
LOVE THIS POST!! Best one I’ve read in a long time!!
Dude. I’ve been thinking about you SO MUCH lately. I’m SO glad to see you stop by! We’ll have to catch up somewhere, somehow soon. (Twitter?)
Oh DEFINITELY!!! Work has picked up here a bit, so I’ve been busy with that…but no excuses I need my blog reading time!!! I’m always so happy to read what you have to say…it just connects with me…does that makes sense??
Okay, I’m laughing sooo hard right now. I clicked on a link on that site that led to a similar article on hairstyles (Crunchy Disclaimer: I like to skip past all of the heat and product to duplicate some of them) and found one for ‘wispy waves.’ to get this look, we’re supposed to use mousse and a diffuser to achieve that all-important look–that the hair just air dried. Seriously.
In all seriousness, the idea that we are beautiful as we are is definitely part of the ‘crunchy identity’ but for me, what has to come first is the “go be It” part because if I let “go be Crunchy” be the way I think of myself, I find myself getting cocky. I see a woman buying Froot Loops and peanut butter crackers at Walgreens and I catch myself thinking “Man, look at that! How can she eat that junk? Look at me with my homemade granola and green smoothies. I don’t need that crap in the cosmetics aisle, I’m going home to dye my toenails with henna and smear honey on my face. I am soooo ahead of her. If I died horifically and had to be identified forensically, the coroner wouldn’t find a single synthetic product on this body!” I mean, seriously.
I also think that as much healthier and cheaper it is, I can be guilty of doing the ‘crunchy version’ of the first panel: instead of buying a miracle product I find one in my cabinet. Which is all well and good, until I become as obsessed with changing and ‘fixing’ myself the grocery store way as I could be the drug and department -store way.
Now, this is about me more than it’s about any community as a whole. I am incapable of making a simple decision without analyzing the heck out of it; I consider what else I could do not because I have a problem doing it the way it is but because my mind automatically considers everything.
So I go with what I hope is a very simplified point of view; as you put (much more succinctly, I might add!) it is just me. If I use almond oil for my moisturizer or lavender oil on my pimples, it’s not special. It’s not better than anyone else, it’s just me. And if I get a few extra pimples or my hair frizzes out, it’s me. And whether I eat a few Oreos after lunch or go with my homemade granola bars, that’s just me too.
Wow, sorry for the long posts! Long summer vacations equal much navel gazing for Lissa. Thank you so much for making me think, and for compiling options for us, because even if it is possible to get stuck in that first panel however you live your life, it is so much easier when you go down the makeup aisle regularly.
Okay – first. The thing about the hair made me laugh really, really, really hard. So typical, but man, good eye for catching that!
Secondly, I think you hit the nail on the head, and I’m SO glad you mentioned it. We ARE already beautiful. But the beauty is in the BEING that beauty. If that makes sense.
And, to me, “going and being beautiful” means doing beautiful things. And that’s how your beauty shines through.
And, really, there’s not much that’s beautiful about being judgmental or haughty toward someone else’s choices. This is actually a super timely topic for me. I’ve been thinking VERY in-depth lately about how we can all be more tolerant (nay, accepting) of other choices … even the ones we don’t agree with.
No worries about the long posts, too. I love ’em. Anything that makes me think is aces in my book. Mwah!
Love it! We are fools aren’t we!?
And thank you for leaving such a sweet comment over at my blog recently.
I love this post! Well said.
The sad thing is this is the same load of hooie that is being targeted at girls as young as 8… buy this lipgloss so boys will notice your lips, wear revealing clothes so they forget about those newly glossed lips, obsess about your face and hair and ooh could that be 2mm of fat on your belly? and don’t let your mom tell you what to wear or that heels will kill your back by the time you turn 20 if you start wearing them now.
When will we finally fight back and insist that, actually, we are worth more than the sum of our gloriously imperfect parts?
We just eat all this up and turn into grown up versions of the insecure little girls we were before.
Dare I just love myself with no conditions applied? Better not, that wouldn’t make anyone any money.
Love this post, love your blog, love you.
All the beauty/personal care things that I make myself now (((because of you and your blog))) help me to just laugh and shake my head at that kind of crass and obvious marketing-within-marketing that used to just peeve me no end. (thanks!) 🙂
I love this. I love you, Crunchy Betty!
I want to print out your crunchy quote and post it in random places around town, like the grocery store (especially the make up aisle), to spread the Crunchy Gospel. 🙂
WOW… just wow. Great post. Love you!!
This is lovely. I made this print the other day ‘You Are Enough’ and I’ll be hanging it in my house.
I went in to an Ulta with my sister yesterday to get some more of my Bare Minerals Makeup (one of my remaining non-crunchy products) and realized I didn’t care to buy a single thing in there! Too much CRAP and chemicals!
Fantastic. I love it!
I can’t wait for my daughter to wake up so I can show her this!
Brilliant !!
I am already using quite a few of your crunchy tips and the world is thanking me for it… particularly the shoe deodorizer… in place of the expensive aerosol cans I use to buy…
Keep on crunching!
Susan
I am sooo thankful for your DIY tips, Crunchy Betty! Especially when compared to the mainstream stuff, just makes me appreciate the other side even more. 😉
Well… those sunglasses ARE cute… probably just on her though, lol. There WAS a time when fashion magazines actually glorified the DIY stuff… you know, before products started sponsoring them like crazy, and they were made to conform to “the man.”
I love this!!!
Hilarious and sad all at the same time!
Classic Crunchy Betty! Love this posting!!!
Thank you so much for this. It’s so true. I live abroad and can’t find some of the things I want from home, so I end up making them instead. Googling for things like skin care recipes isn’t useful when all it recommends is buying everything ever from a make up company.