Body Beautiful
The Beauty Log
I don’t spend much time on my appearance. Take a look. Here’s what I did over the past week. I didn’t count things like applying sunscreen or bug repellant because I’d say those things are more for health than beauty. There’s a fuzzy line between those two things. Here’s the list:
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
15 mins: Evening shower and shave
1 min: Hair brushing
45 In-class nail picking (gross, I know)
15 mins: Evening shower and shave
5 Hair brush
15 mins: Evening shower and shave
15 mins: Morning shower and shave
2mins: Blow dry
15 mins: Morning shower and shave
5mins: Blowdry
10mins: Shower
15mins: Shower and shave
Total time spent: 158 minutes (2 hours 38 minutes).
It’s actually more time than I thought. I cannot imagine if I had some elaborate routine of plucking, preening, and painting. How do people find the time for it?
For me, at this time and place in my life, spending time on my appearance means basic hygiene ( showering). I quit shaving my legs when I was fifteen years old because I refused to conform to society’s beauty standards. I was already a misfit and this just added to my character. Eventually I learned to ignore the heckling. For fifteen years I let my body grow whatever hair it wanted, wherever it wanted.