What do Mother’s Day, freckles and tech have in common?
I recently came across an interesting new beauty trend in JWT Intelligence Report’s 100 Trends to Watch for 2016. It isn’t the latest lipstick color or Korean skin care craze, rather it’s freckles. Well, not just freckles but what they represent. Photographer Brock Embank, who recently exhibited his work on beards at London’s Somerset House, will now be exhibiting his artwork around freckles. And, if that’s not enough, freckles got some major love on the runway shows, and some brands have recently created products to help us draw freckles on our bodies.
Why does this matter? For years dermatologists, skin care brands and the media have done their utmost to help us rid ourselves of these spots. After all, they are blemishes right? Or maybe not. Maybe what we are saying is that they represent our individuality. And THAT is what makes us beautiful.
Thanks to social media like Tumblr and Pinterest we are celebrating these differences more than ever. Look at Embracing Our Differences or my friend and beauty guru, Michelle Phan‘s, appeal for people to “embrace their flaws.”
What in the world does this have to do with Mother’s Day? EVERYTHING! We love our moms so much because they are our own, unique moms…no one can replace them. And our moms love us because we too are totally amazing and irreplaceable individuals. This extends to our beauty too! No one thinks our individual beauty is as beautiful as our moms do. And vice versa. We think our moms are the most beautiful women in the world!
Thanks to changing societal norms and technology, we can embrace our individual beauty more than ever. But let’s remember that it’s our moms who have ALWAYS embraced our individual beauty. Let’s thank her for that. And let’s also remind her how we think they are the most beautiful women in the world.
Happy Mother’s Day (and birthday to me too! :))