Dollops and dollops of makeup
how it changed our life for ever
from lipsticks to eye shadows to support our confident self,
Shunning our pimples, scars, acne, marks and wrinkles of anxiousness
blooming out our amour propre yet less conscious self

Our bestower of freshness,
our guide for glamourous look thanks to magical power of makeup
Detacher of the peeling skin is our beautiful self help branded lotions and kit ...
Caked lips to enjoy the ornamentation of wax, oil, and pigments a therapy given to them by lipsticks.....
Making us a confident carefree self ..

From foundations to eyeliners so and so we enjoy our way...
Became a habit for many, to adorn it in their daily life...
To make it an elixir of life, without which they can't accept their natural beautiful and true self.... In process often,
mastering more craters than hiding them

Non Comedogenic, the non acne genic safe to use, a boom of makeup....
Fresh and creamy, natural and delightful curd, flour, rice, haldi, amla, henna, aloevera, chandan, hibiscus.... suffered a set back.....
All that shines and glitters is -
nail polish,
glitters our nails with nitrocellulose to butyl or ethyl "acetate sisters" with plasticisers to coat us well
Alas! sometimes leaving an everlasting terrible imprint,with shady lines

The irony is that,
It looks glamorous but
forces many to fight silicosis and respiratory tract diseases to earn and gift
Our Highness.....
the glamorous glow and we owe it to those for whom we don't have much dignity
Angered with this treatment & nature altering the terrible extraction process
Talc, mica and lead, asbestos conspired together to hatch a plan,
Talc reminded , "I am your elder sister so let me teach a lesson first ".
.... "Although I absorb oil and doesn't let things cake up but from now
I with my friends magnesium, silica and oxygen will delve well in the cells.... And will play my game! "
With this talc entered our lives and became a skin changer, from baby powder to our spell - makeup and other aesthetics
...while mica enjoyed meeting us two times a day with her friends, aluminium, and titanium sisters -ilmenite & rutile in our beloved toothpaste sometimes secretly churning the enamel... And meeting the dentine .
Cassiterite met us few times and the other minerals followed the course.....
Then the talc with her sister asbestos escaped the refining process under the few greedy workers and hoarders,
like many other products ...became oncogenic,
graced our skin & deep inside in our cells and increased their growth more and more with reduction in regeneration,..
fibroblast, peptides went on a setback along with matrix.......the more we lessened our dietary habits ,stabilisers and preservatives- acesulfame, neotame and sucralose took the lead,
In food and makeup put there heads together and turned out vicious.....
We relied more on the estrogen in make up, the Steroidal and placenta stuff in shampoos....... turned out terrible and beings suffered a fostered cancer ....!
© kalika singh