Beauty Depiction -CJ

If I stripped you of your make up..
False eye lashes
Lip gloss and colored contacts
If someone had never invented lip stick
If you couldn’t wear foundation
and they didn’t make concealer
You couldn’t dye your hair
and you couldn’t paint your nails
If the beauty shop was never invented
You rocked a tight bun or
Your hair at its natural state
What if good hair wasn’t curly hair
If a perm never existed
and the world did not favor light skin
Your body was disproportional
Boob jobs did not exist
What if you couldn’t enhance your body if it wasn’t from within
No eyeliner or exfoliating cream
No spa dates
No such things as beauty treatments
What if you couldn’t tan
Ill let you keep the braces (some people teeth are just that bad)
What if magazines and TV shows did not depict beauty
What if women weren’t so superficial
and men weren’t so hormone driven
What if your profile picture could not be photo shopped
If intellect determined the color of your hair
Smoothness of your skin depicted by charm
Whiteness of your teeth by knowledge of worldly affairs
Body image based soley on character
If going back to the fundamentals of a being
With image to the eye being something that did not exist
If you couldn’t enhance your look with cosmetics
But, enhance YOU with knowledge
What if the texture of your hair depended on humanitarian efforts
Or you were only as beautiful as the things you know
Only as elegant as the words you spoke
What would you look like?