Women put make-up on to cover their bad scars, blemishes and acne. Make-up lets us express who we truly are (not the truth).
Sometimes we think covering ourselves up and hiding our flaws will make people like us even more. This happens because maybe you’ve been mocked or laughed at because you’re different.
Last year The Dermablend ads were aired and millions of women have been posting no-make-up selfies. This cosmetics ad goes against the typical girl-power creed of embracing your natural look by showing how make-up can actually empower women.
A woman with severe skin conditions shows how cosmetics can be empowering. She explains about having a different skin condition and how she uses make-up to present herself to the world in a way that feels genuine, not as a means of hiding away.
Cheri Lindsay, a volleyball coach has a skin depigmentation condition called vitiligo. By camouflaging her condition with make-up, ‘people could look completely through it and see who I was as a person,’ she explains. ‘It made me a little bit more approachable.’
In the beginning of the video, Cheri appears, sitting in a chair, with what looks to be an even skin tone. She explains that the condition began manifesting itself in her sophomore year of college when she lived in Texas.
She then explains how she uses make-up not to hide her imperfections, but to encourage people to see her for who she truly is instead of making assumptions based on her appearance. It’s ok to say say “I Am Different”.
Here’s the video below.
‘It wasn’t until I found make-up and a passion within myself that I found purpose to my life’. She adds that by putting herself out there in the commercial, she hopes to inspire other women to do the same.
This is a great reminder that we are all created in God’s image. Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them”. This scriptures explains this so well.
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