Glowing Insecurity

I want you to realize some people literally glow in real life.

There's no snapchat lens, no 3rd party IG app, no editing. No nothing. Their melanin skin glows. Their light-skin glows and funny enough: Even their parents glow too, down to their great grandparents...

Most times, they don't even reply your comments when you ask 'Sis. Please drop your skincare routine' because THERE IS NO SKINCARE ROUTINE. It's all genes. GOOD GENES. Which your PARENTS COULDN'T GIVE YOU.

But, when they're down on some money or they just want the hype that comes with advertisement, they'd sign under a 'skincare' product as either a brand ambassador or as their new face...

They'd get this professional photographer who works with that brand to take beautiful shots of them, proper angles and everything and those photographers in turn would edit those pictures. Remove any slight blemish, add more 'glow' to their skin and then they'd drop those now-edited pictures on their social media profiles to announce they've been signed. Sometimes and not always, they'd even add pepper and salt 'So a TON of y'all have been asking about my skincare products, well.. it's all thanks to  *inserts generic brand name*' which is actually JUST marketing.. can't blame them, they're not lying. They're just selling an image. And YOU. Ijeoma.

You Ijeoma with totally different genes gotten from her totally different parents with totally different lifestyle and habits would *fall*

Which is ALL those brands need. They need you to *fall*.

So they can use your insecurities against you. I don't get, don't you think they know what they're doing? Why they're ready to even spend millions just to get that *NATURALLY BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT LOOKING GIRL* to be the face of their brand?

Because that's a certain way to trigger your insecurities. Because then you see them...and you're like 'Wow. I need this soap. I need this cream. This that. That this. I need this.

But then what happens if you just can't afford it? You feed the Insecurity monster to the point you're depressed about being poor... Which all links back to marketing strategies.

Like 'Look at our brand face now. See how she's glowing. Don't you want to glow too? Just 50K ah' Brand face that probably WOULD NEVER USE THOSE PRODUCTS and this isn't me implying their products are generic or anything... they're all are good- at least most of them- they're just that. They're good. Not miracle working.

THEY CAN'T TURN AN APE INTO SNOW WHITE. Also this isn't me being rude or something... I'm speaking figuratively...

Being good means. If you use those healthy ingredients found in most products OVER TIME... OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK BETTER. But DON'T EXPECT TO SUDDENLY LOOK LIKE SOMEONE WHO WAS ALREADY BLESSED WITH GOOD GENES, JUST FROM USING THEM. Your skin is NOT going to GLOW.

Get out of the sun and exit your snapchat. You're NOT GLOWING. Marketing strategy, psychology branch wants you thinking you look good so you can continue patronizing and enriching them.

Side Note: People with good genes just open their cameras and their silky skin shows. Of course angle and all that matters but, they're not editing their radiant skin to shine because it already does.

That's how your insecurities stay just that. Insecurities. Because you've already set this impossible to meet target (impossible because you can't time travel, although if you can. HMU) so when you don't meet it. Because you CAN'T meet it. You begin to hate yourself. Marketing strategies are good. But you're already beautiful. You're beautiful.

Eat fruits, exercise and drink water... and watch how you build your own good genes.

When I have energy I'd talk about the people who Photoshop 😑

I'd talk about people like me 😝😝