None of us should ever feel guilty for engaging in a bit of vanity.  The way our skin looks is a reflection of our whole body’s health.  If we keep our skin looking radiant and young, our entire body will be healthier.  Skin is our largest organ and it needs to be healthy for it to do the work it is intended for.  Being at our optimal weight and muscle tone is also extremely healthy, so paying attention to what kind of shape our bodies are in is not something to be ashamed of at all. Our bodies need  us to pay attention to them to keep them at their optimal health levels. Putting on makeup or being selective about what you wear can effect your moods, too. If spending a bit more time choosing what you are going to wear or to makeup your eyes the way you like them makes you feel good, there is nothing wrong with doing so.

When someone attempts to shame you for taking an interest in keeping yourself at optimal health and fitness, the problem might be theirs and not yours.  Perhaps that person feels they are justified in their own lack of self care when they call you vain.  If vanity is bad, then they don’t need to feel guilty for ignoring the roll around their own waistline or their own blotchy complexion.  Perhaps you are just all over better looking than that person and they justify their jealousy by degrading you. Sometimes the insult comes from a person’s religious background that taught them that self-care was prideful and they do not understand that the care necessary to be healthy is truly health consciousness and not self indulgence.

There are a lot of reasons people may lash out at you because of your care routines.  While it can be their own problems that they are voicing, you might want to take a good look at your own actions before you judge someone else to have issues.  Sometimes people are actually justified in calling another person vain, though.

Do you have a habit of  making  people wait for you while you primp?  If you do so, you can count on being seen as vain, and rightly so.  Your self care routines should not put others out of their way.  If you continually find people waiting around for you while you are glued to a mirror putting on makeup or tussling your hair, you are at a point that you have become rude and self indulgent.  You need to change your care rituals so that they do not cut into the time of others.

Are you so hyper about the way you look that you can’t run into a local shop to do a quick errand without it taking you time to dress up or do your makeup?  It is time for you to get over it if you are that worried about your appearance.  Even if you are afraid you’ll run into Mr. Right and won’t have your makeup foundation on, rest assured, Mr. Right will see you without it at some time or another eventually.  If he can’t handle it now, he won’t handle it well later either.  If he can’t, he’s not as right as you might want to think he is.  You may need to start putting some thought into the fact that no matter how good you look, sooner or later the people you meet are going to want to know something deeper about you that how you look.  Are you spending so much time on your looks that there is nothing deeper to look at?  If you have become so obsessed with the way you look that you lack time for other aspects of life, you may have self worth issues that you need to stop and take a considerate look into. Even the most famous models have time for a life beyond makeup and waistline control.

The most important indicator of too much vanity is how you see other people.  Do you think of yourself as better than someone else because you have a luscious thick head of hair and theirs is thin or stringy?  Do you see the person with a little bit of flab around their waist as not quite up to your level?  If that is the case, you are not just vain, you are conceited and narcissistic.  If you find yourself wondering what the gorgeous hunk at the next table sees in the woman he is with just because she is not as physically attractive as you, you might need to take a reality check on the kind of person you are inside once in awhile, too.

It might be fun to be young and strikingly beautiful.  Sooner or later those good looks are going to fade, and when they do, what will be left that people will look up to when they see and talk to you?  Even before your looks fade, people are going to get bored with you if you don’t have something more than a glowing face to contribute to a get together.   Looking at your loveliness is probably not everyone else’s goal for an evening out.

When considering how right and wrong your personal vanity is, it is important that you can strike a healthy balance.  You want to take enough time with yourself to be healthy and to have some self esteem.  You do not want to spend so much time that others start to become impatient with waiting for you or bored with your lack of other interests.  You do not want to become so self-absorbed that you start thinking that looks equal personal value.

The next time someone calls you vain, take a quick step back from the mirror and ask them why they think so.  You might find the answer much more illuminating than the mirror ever could be. If you are the one who is in the mind that others are too vain, you might want to take a look at your own health and beauty regime.  There’s nothing wrong with taking time to pay attention to your health and appearance.  It might even give you a new and exciting perspective on life to do so.  It doesn’t take a whole lifetime in a mirror to achieve great,  healthy looks.

©2010 Sally Taylor

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If you spent the night before slamming down daquaris or margaritas, the bad morning might not be such a surprise. We all know if we get a bit toasted, that is what our face is going to look like in the morning. Sometimes, though, why we look so awful some mornings just isn’t instantly apparent to us. We may wonder for a few minutes, do some sort of fix or make an attempt to hide the devastation, but in the long run how far do we go in examining why we look so much worse some days than on others?

The truth is that if you are experiencing bad mirror days fairly frequently, it is something you should be taking note of very closely. Your skin is an organ and when it is looking bad, it’s not going to be functioning all that well, either. If your skin is doing poorly, many other organs that you can’t see may be suffering just as badly. The bad mirror day is not something to just blow off and ignore.

When you find yourself frequently waking up badly, you need to start taking notes. There are many reasons that you might be looking worse than usual, or that it is becoming more usual to look pretty bad when you wake up. It’s time to start making a check list for yourself to get to the bottom of the situation. You will want to examine all the things that you can think of that might have a negative effect on your skin so you can see if there is some pattern so you can avoid irritants before the damage becomes permanent.

The first thing to ask yourself is if you drank enough water the day before. Dehydration will take an almost immediate toll on the body. Fortunately this one is easy to fix if you do it right away and don’t allow yourself to repeat the dehydration too often. If your checklist includes a lack of liquids as a usual item, start right there and make sure that you can write it off your list in the future. That may be all it takes to correct the bad mornings. If not, you need to look further.

Lack of sleep is another reason for looking run down that is pretty easy to figure out. Not getting enough sleep once in a while is pretty normal. If you are experiencing lack of sleep too often though, you are putting your whole body in jeopardy. You might need to make some life adjustments to ensure you are able to sleep a bit longer each night. Perhaps you have a job that is too demanding for you and need to find a different company to work for that is not hazardously demanding. Maybe you need to hire someone to take care of a few odds and ends for you that keep you running just a little longer than is healthy. Perhaps your spouse needs to be made to understand that you are having too many demands on your time and you need to have more help or to be left alone to sleep longer. Whatever adjustments would aid you in getting the extra sleep you need should be made. Lack of sleep can do more than make you look like a zombie. It can be deadly.

What did you eat the day before? Did you eat a lot of processed foods or drink soda pop? Write down everything you can remember. You might find a pattern in what you eat and how you look. Processed foods and beverages contain a myriad chemical additives and all forms of sugar and sugar substitutes. By writing down what foods you ate each time you wake up less than prime you may be able to narrow down exactly which foods you are having the worst reactions to and can get them out of your diet before they destroy your whole body’s health. The more of these chemicals and sugars you can cut out of your diet, the more generally healthy you will be and the better your skin will look.

Was your room too hot or too cold the night before your mirror screams at you? If your checklist shows that your room was either hotter or colder than normal when you wake up looking bad, you have an easy solution on hand. A room that is too hot can make eyes puffy and lined. A room that is too cold can just upset good sleep.

Are you exposing yourself to forms of pollution some days that you aren’t always exposed to? When you wake up looking bad, take a washcloth and pour some rubbing alcohol on it and wipe your face. If you are wiping off blackish dirt, think about where you were the day before. If you can avoid going somewhere that always results in black film on your skin, avoid going there any more often than you need to. If you have to go there, make sure to wear a non-toxic makeup foundation when you go. It’s much better to have toxic waste sitting on your makeup than absorbing into your body through your skin. Be sure to wash your makeup off thoroughly when you get home. If you remove brownish residue when you wipe your face, you aren’t getting your makeup off well enough before you go to bed and need to improve your cleansing routine. Even the best non-toxic makeup will still clog pores and keep your cells from breathing freely at night. After you wipe your skin clean with the alcohol, be sure and moisturize with a non-toxic moisturizer. Alcohol is a great cleanser, but it will dry your skin if you don’t moisturize after you clean with it.

Are you getting enough aerobic exercise? Your skin may suffer if you are not. Conversely, if you are exercising daily or most days and your skin is breaking out or otherwise looking bad, your body might be expelling toxins through your skin. Some of the previous points on the checklist will reveal if you are taking in too many chemical toxins. If you can’t correct the problem with better hydration and nutrition, you may have something more serious going on that you need to look into.

Illness can also show up on your skin and if all other points of your checklist don’t show up a problem and you are cleansing your skin thoroughly each night, you might need professional help to find out if you have a deficiency, imbalance, or even an illness you are not aware of in your body that you need to address.

No matter what you do, you will never be able to completely avoid an occasional bad mirror day. By keeping track of your activities though, you can reduce them to a minimum. . A little bit of applied vanity can go a long way in maintaining your body’s optimal health. It won’t hurt your self esteem to look better most days, either.

©2010: Sally Taylor

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