We Have To Stop This Idea That

We Have To Stop This Idea That We Have To Be A Certain Shape.

Some Makeup Companies Have Really Good Recycling Policies, And It's Worth Finding Out Whether Your Favourites Are Among Them. With Mac, For Instance, You Can Take Any Of Your Old Makeup Containers Into Its Shops, And The Sweetest Deal Is That, Once You've Racked Up Six Containers, You Get A Free Lipstick Or Lip Gloss.

Reclaiming The Word Fat Was The Most Empowering Step In My Progress. I Stopped Using It For Insult Or Degradation And Instead Replaced It With Truth, Because The Truth Is That I Am Fat, And That's Ok. So Now When Someone Calls Me Fat, I Agree, Whereas Before I Would Get Embarrassed And Emotional.

I Was Born Fat And Have Always Been, Which Was Just Fine And Even Healthy And Cute Until I Turned Ten Or So. Puberty Hit Like A Hurricane And Brought A New Set Of Rules. All Of A Sudden It Was My Fault I Was Chubby.

Thanks To Capitalism, The Importance Placed On Beauty Has Never Been So Manipulated. We Are The Guinea Pigs Force-fed Ads That Tell Us How Pathetic We Are: That We Will Never Be Loved, Happy Or Valuable Unless We Have The Body, The Face, The Hair, Even The Personality That Will Apparently Be Ours, If Only We Buy Their Products.