Let me see your nudes
- Jul 17, 2016
- 3 min read
A lot has been happening since I last had the opportunity to sit down and write. As a matter of fact, the world has changed in a matter of only just a few weeks and I am sure you agree with me. Let us see:
Brexit … Predictable
Portugal winning the Euro Cup … Unpredictable and left a few of us aphonic
Serena Williams winning yet another Wimbledon … It is in her blood #itisinourblood @serenawilliams we all loved your Wimbledon dress by the way #wimbledondress
An ‘old’ friend being seriously bitten by a shark … A big hug and wishing you an ever so speedy recovery!
Mohammed Ali … A lesson from the ‘Champ’ to challenge the conventional
Not to mention the atrocities that society cannot and must not get used to
In fact, on society… Society always has a way of indoctrinating some fundamental dogmas around us. A lot of the times, because the same society is so oblivious to what is happening in the world, people, rightly or wrongly, end up believing, without the blink of a “thought”, all these referred dogmas.
Not so long ago, my six year old niece was telling me about an activity she was doing at her class in school. She looked really focussed and engaged whilst telling me about her story, so obviously this was something that was important to her. The story was about an activity in which her teacher instructed the class to paint the drawing of a little doll. My niece described this drawing to me and was explaining the difficulties she had in completing this activity, as she was looking for a skin-colour pencil to colour the doll. She told me that she could not paint the drawing, because the only ‘skin-colour’ pencil was being used already. Bless her. The dismay in her eyes.
I then asked her whose skin colour she was trying to colour the drawing. She starred at me and looked utterly confused. I asked her if she asked her teacher for help and she said yes and that her teacher said that she needed to wait for the pencil to become available, as someone else was using it.
Naturally for this six-year old having been told at school, perhaps via various sub-minimal messages, that “skin colour” is a pale tone, I understand why she would found herself unable to complete this task in the absence of that one pencil. What is regretful, nevertheless, is that the teacher was not capable of thinking outside the box and was leading her class into continued ignorance.
If you think beyond it though, for ages the media and the fashion industry have been the channels to indoctrinating what “nude” looks like. Up to very recently it was impossible to find make-up for the dark(er) skin tones and when you did find it, you would pay the price of gold for it. Yves Saint Laurent was one of the very few producing dark nude colours some 15 years ago @saintlaurent #nude #challengetheconventional .
The term ‘nude colour’ is different for every person, so let us not misuse it and certainly not in an imposing manner. Think about this when you are having your next manicure or when you buy your next lingerie or make-up @victoriasecret @agentprovocateur .
The good news is Bobbi Brown are superb at creating various tones, warm and cool, to various nudes and their Nude Finish Collection is exactly about that: giving you options and a personal touch. @BobbiBrown @MACcosmetics
Love your nudes. Challenge the conventional.
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