Should I listen to my sister or not?

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I wear what makes me happy, however, I wear a capsule wardrobe.

Black leggings or cigarette pants, long tops, all in black grey or navy. I have 2 pair of palazzo pants - one charcoal and one black - that I wear with T shirts or similar tops. I add color and fun with scarves, statement necklaces, layering pieces.

Own one pair of black shoes that I wear with everything.
 
With me,it’s not so much that my eyes are protruding/large like you might have see on some internet photos of people with thyroid disorders but rather that they have become tiny.
It’s hard to explain without photos,but my eyes used to be naturally large and wide shape-bit protruding but nothing really obvious -but then as time went on they started swelling and the eyelid skin actually shrunk and changed shape and now my eyes are really small and “weird looking”.Not only that but my own eyelashes have shrunk to almost non existent and turned in onto themselves so I"have" to wear false one.
I actually need makeup to make my eyes look bigger not smaller and that’s where my heavy mascara and false lashes has come in.

Funnily enough,for someone that’s so heavy on mascara and lashes I never wear eyeshadow and I don’t wear lipstick too often as I feel if I have to “go with the drag queen look” I at least try to keep it to as minimum as possible.

It probably is time to go back to the doctor but I don’t have many positive thoughts regarding doctors anymore and what they can do for you.
My mother also has a Thyroid condition that was refractory to medication treatment and she agreed to doctors ablating (killing) her thyroid with nuclear medicine and since then she’s had nothing but trouble with it as now she permanently has to take thyroid medicine to mimic her own thyroid as she doesn’t have one.If she takes too low dose her blood tests show it’s no working,if she’s given a higher dose she’s at risk of falls/had a fall because she is elderly 😫😡
 
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Do you mean Oh well at if someone stares at me,or oh well about my sisters thoughts on the makeup?
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These are the best photos I could find for example.
Mine are probably somewhere in between the two-bit clumpier than the first image but not as extreme or clumpy as Lady Gaga’s.
 
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First one looks OK to me. Second seems like too much but I think it could be the contrast with her hair.
 
Have you ever thought to speak to a priest or spiritual director about why these issues seem to dominate your life? So many of your posts are on similar topics, looks, clothing, men’s attitudes, how you believe other people see you, basically all these external self focused issues. Are you concerned with how God sees you, are you concerned with what you can do to be pleasing to Him?

At the end of the day none of this really matters, if we wear makeup or not, if we wear the “right” clothing or not, what others may think about us, it is all immaterial. True beauty has very little to do with physical looks. Being overly concerned with all of that stuff just gets in the way of striving for holiness.

Please speak to either a priest of get a spiritual director.
 
I’m pretty sure Gaga is wearing fake lashes in this picture. They are back in fashion. Adding, the first seem like fake lashes as well.
 
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Eye liner could make your eyes seem bigger as well. And the color. Blues and white right near the eye, and then a darker color definitely make eyes seem bigger.
 
Of course none of it matters at the end of the day.At the same time,we are in this world for the present ‘temporal’ time and we are ‘social creatures’.
The Internet only gives a ‘snap shot’ of people’s lives and people usually post what’s on their mind in that present moment.
It’s not uncommon to hear even the Muslim women talk about ‘temporary earth topics’ such as makeup,hair or whether they believe in wearing hijab or not etc…
All this is fine,providing it doesn’t take centre stage and that women don’t value the outer appearance as more important that the inner beauty or don’t use it to seduce men etc…

I believe that God works through the world and that Holiness doesn’t mean being detached/separate from real life/current affairs/real life topics etc…

For the most part my life focuses on inner beauty and nothing external can ever compete with the beauty of being kind,gentle and compassionate and helping others.
It is (unfortunately) human nature though that we often post about the “wrongs” of life rather than the “rights”.
Eg:a wife might make posts complaining about her husband’s poor habits but doesn’t make posts writing about all the other many great things the husband does the other days.
It doesn’t mean they aren’t there though.We just went with her/them 24 hours a day.
 
Sorry I should have mentioned they are false lashes.
I am wearing false lashes with black mascara on top.
 
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