This year for Lent, I decided to abstain from using makeup. If you are not familiar, lent is a 40-day period before Easter where many Catholics and other Christians choose something to forgo. Some people choose to give up eating meat or stop listening to music in their car — it is a personal experience that I personally see as an opportunity to better myself and grow my faith. This year, that meant not putting any makeup on my face.
Before lent started, I wasn’t huge into makeup, but I definitely used it almost daily. I’ve worn heavy foundation or really beat my face, but you could always catch me wearing some glowy eye makeup, long eyelashes, and a pink highlight. I wanted to give up makeup to delve further into self-love (which is something I am a huge proponent of). I wanted to strengthen my faith and recenter my ideas of beauty; I wanted to really rediscover who I am.
