Yes, makeup can be a hassle and many women rock the no makeup look, but I’m struggling. This year has been one of the most challenging seasons of my walk with the Lord. He has been challenging me to step out of my box and trust him completely and be who he created me to be. I have never been a person that deals with insecurity until now and I have no idea why. At first I pushed makeup to the side and said that I don’t hide behind it and that I just use it to enhance my features. Well, I was wrong. The Lord has dared me to go without it and I’m struggling. When this first came about, I thought I would just go without it during the race. However, God is challenging me to do it now. Many of you know me and there are not many times that I leave my house without my face on, as my mom and I say. So I’m struggling through this and God is for sure pressing some buttons. But, I love it. I love that God can push me to be a better me. I know he desires me to be comfortable in my own skin without the enhancement. As I have struggled through this I’ve begun to question where my insecurity comes from and why I believe makeup to be necessary in my everyday life.
Part of me believes that today’s society holds women, and even men, to an extremely high standard of beauty that is in many ways unattainable, but the truth is that God created us to all be unique. Just as he has written our unique stories, he has crafted our bodies to be us. Yes, some people get stretch marks, some are tall, some are short, some have freckles, some are tan and some pale, but regardless of our appearances, God created us and we are art in his eyes. You have stretch marks; God wanted you to have tiger stripes. You have freckles; God wanted you to be polka dotted. God formed each of us in our mother’s wombs to be uniquely us.
So I’m not going to wear make up, now or on the race, and I’m going to allow God to grow me! So rock your natural beauty!!! Let your hair down, take your makeup off, or do whatever you must do to be naturally who you are and never be ashamed of it!
No makeup and my crazy, wild hair!
