The answer is more about you…. Wearing makeup specially Red Lips during confinement, explains many deeper things about us, no matter how well that deep red feels on your lips.

A small feeling of strange nostalgia runs through us all as we think of the long confined days. Not just because of the situation itself, also because of what has changed us, as human beings….

To the question of “Did you wear makeup during confinement?”, the answer is much more than a yes or a no. It’s our X-ray, the way we look, the way we treat each other, and the way we love each other. Wearing a lipstick, or some mascara during cold days says much more than just the aesthetic fact of giving color to the lips. Something so simple and sometimes called a bit “superficial” becomes a deep sign of self-love if we look at why we do it and how we do it. And it is certain the power color has over us.

How did you look at the mirror during those days when the keys were sat at the entrance for weeks? How did you figure out everything that until then was automatically and routinely? We talk, for example, about the mascara, or wearing concealer… everything we have always wear to “see ourselves -MORE- beautiful”, during confinement, we were continuing wearing it to remind ourselves how much we like to look good and how good it is.

Every person has to make that kind of reminder that makes them feel good in their skin, in their hair, in their body with their clothes. I think life is a matter of attitude. If a red lip gives us energy, a nice hairstyle, or a new eye shadow… why not?

Of course, there is also the case for all those who took confinement as a period of relaxation and total disconnection from the habits of “the old normality”. It doesn’t mean that they don’t love each other or they don’t like to pamper themselves, because disconnecting to reconnect is another way to pamper you, no doubt. But for those of us who understand makeup as a more form of communication, as a creative way to tell the world who you are and how you are, the way you wear it during the days when only you looked at the mirror, is interesting because during those days we have had the opportunity to check that freedom was always within us.

Live has a colour

The fact of getting ready for the zoom calls was just one more way to connect with ourselves and others. And that translates into one more way to feel alive, a way to understand the reason that could come out in all those cases where we would give ourselves a few minutes in front of the mirror to make our lips and see them full of color or to enlarge our eyes through the mascara to remind us what we do, we’re still here and we’re still fine.

I did my lips red, too, and I made by myself the longest eyeliner of all time. And I even used the glitter on the eyelids and the illuminator on the cheekbones, I didn’t even do it to go to the groceries. That Me-time in front of the mirror was enough for me to make me shine to remind me who I was (and who I am). In those moments of frustration, doubts, fear, and uncertainty, disconnecting from all that and connecting with myself through the color and habits that I sometimes considered “extra”, became something important and it made me feel good.

During this “new normal,” in this new world that has come to us suddenly and by surprise (or perhaps not so much), it is important to remember who we are. What we do and why we do it? Maybe everything that didn’t make sense before, it’ll magically change now.

And we still have a long way to go, and a lot of makeup looks to wear….