The social media beauty industry has gone completely insane. The latest trend in my algorithm is for there to be a reel that starts with a picture of a celebrity woman nowadays. Over the picture are the words, “Mom, tell me what you were like in the 90’s”. From there the song Iris by GooGoo Dolls starts playing, and syncing up with the beat of the song come flashes of pictures of the woman 30 years younger. Cute ones, casual ones, sexy ones, you name it. I’ve seen it countless times now.

First of all, kids don’t ask those kinds of questions. The kids nowadays do not even realize the 90’s existed. Their sense of time does not acknowledge that decade and their sense of their parents lives does not really seem to include the fact that they were anything other than parents. I don’t mean this facetiously. In terms of wondering about when they were young, it’s more likely to ask your grandparents those kinds of questions because there is more of a contrast with young and old.

Well so anyway. And then you’ve got the endless filtered faces with Botox, fillers, red light therapy, and everyone saying how they do or do not do these things. Honestly anymore, in the current moment, I am fine with the lines on my face and the way things are moving and drifting in that area. What else is it supposed to do?? I am grateful for the years of physical beauty that God gave me, but like Bible says, beauty is fleeting. Why do I want to spend that much time on a false presentation?

I hope that doesn’t sound self-righteous. I’m not saying there aren’t things you have to process along the way. Beautiful women come and go. Someone else can have their turn and in the meantime this doesn’t have to be an all-consuming thing. Pluck the chin hairs, embrace the grays, do whatever you need to do. Don’t brush your hair or comb it out if you want to. I actually found a great shampoo lately called “Love Beauty and Planet” in the Murumuru Butter & Rose scent.

You can wash your hair one day and the next day it still feels light and freshly washed. I don’t know how the people on Survivor ever made it with not being able to wash their hair throughout the show. There had to be some way they were allowed to keep up with it. But it really annoys me when this is such an obsession. Honestly I don’t care what people looked like in the 90’s. In the 90’s I was dreaming about being a mom someday and buying Jane foundation at Walmart. It was all a season.