Ok listen this is me w a cup of rum and a robe celebrating my momentary and percieved emotional independence.
This is like a after 6 months of counseling and achieving self love/worth but you realize you still lonely and desperately trying not to lose the mental stability you worked so hard for but your third eye is fatigued and your new coping mechanism aint doing it no mo mood
me realizing that although i use skincare as a form of self care that i am ultimately doing it in order to achieve the societal ideal that requires women to have young and flawless-looking skin to be considered valuable, and that although there is still value in it, to consider skincare as the ultimate form of self care is just me playing into those same societal structures: