#importantread

today will pass, tomorrow will pass, and soon you will learn to love yourself again and you will learn that even when things aren’t okay, they will be. 

“Women do not simply have faces, as men do; they are identified with their faces. Men have a naturalistic relation to their faces. Certainly they care whether they are good-looking or not. They suffer over acne, protruding ears, tiny eyes; they hate getting bald. But there is a much wider latitude in what is esthetically acceptable in a man’s face than what is in a woman’s. A man’s face is defined as something he basically doesn’t need to tamper with; all he has to do is keep it clean. He can avail himself of the options for ornament supplied by nature: a beard, a mustache, longer or shorter hair. But he is not supposed to disguise himself. What he is “really” like is supposed to show. A man lives through his face; it records the progressive stages of his life. And since he doesn’t tamper with his face, it is not separate from but is completed by his body – which is judged attractive by the impression it gives of virility and energy. By contrast, a woman’s face is potentially separate from her body. She does not treat it naturalistically. A woman’s face is the canvas upon which she paints a revised, corrected portrait of herself. One of the rules of this creation is that the face not show what she doesn’t want it to show. Her face is an emblem, an icon, a flag. How she arranges her hair, the type of make-up she uses, the quality of her complexion – all these are signs, not of what she is “really” like, but of how she asks to be treated by others, especially men. They establish her status as an “object.” #SusanSontag #importantread #feminism Come to our exhibition in @invogue_odessa with @eldacademy to learn more about women! It will be interesting. ❤️ (at Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxdRECTCMSG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f3s56s189twp

Do you wash your face? Check out this guy his name is demodex folliculorum he creates all sorts of problems! Hello... My name is demodex folliculorum and I live in the pores of the skin of your face that's why it's important to wash your face and remove makeup!! The only way you can see me is with a microscope. I measure between 0,3 and 0,4 mm, and like spiders, I have 8 legs. I like living in hair follicles that have your nose, cheek and eyelashes. These are places where there's more fat to feed me. I feed on your secretions and your dead skin. I can put up to 25 eggs in every hair follicle. My digestive system is not able to eliminate my waste, so i accumulation them in my body until I explode and die. My remains cause hypersensitivity reactions. According to some studies, in some people, I can cause infections on eyelids and rosacea. I am a mite that is present in almost every adult on this planet. Are you gonna get makeup tonight? 🤪 . #reddesertbeauty #skincare #importantread #clean #mites #yuck https://www.instagram.com/p/BtVRyqxBkrP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=70vyz2q3iat6

#importantread (at The Art Institute of Atlanta)

Sharing this article by Alicia Garza we should all read about the role of solidarity and the history of #BlackLivesMatter.  http://blacklivesmatter.com/a-herstory-of-the-blacklivesmatter-movement/ "Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise....It’s important that we work together to build and acknowledge the legacy of Black contributions to the struggle for human rights.  If you adapt Black Lives Matter, use the opportunity to talk about its inception and political framing. Lift up Black lives as an opportunity to connect struggles across race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality and disability."