Grace, The best Trend Ever!

I write the following lines with due respect for all the women who go to beauty Saloons, further respect for those who work there to earn a living, nothing is totally bad.

Its a usual matter whenever I have to go along someone to the beauty Saloon, I initially feel like an alien who has missed all the progress that was made in the previous year. And there they are, the groomed and up-to-date accomplished ladies who have kept themselves with the technological advances! Later you feel sorry for them. At one side you would see hair being dyed in all those funky shades, at the other there would be faces being polished , all sorts of outer beauty treatments and a seriousness of purpose prevails in the atmosphere.

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Basically I have no issues with looking good or dressing up or all the girls stuff like jewelry or moderate use of makeup even. The point is that it is our psychology that we keep moving, direction becomes very important. When we jump into the world of fashion and make it a priority the results get horrible with the passage of time. I have literally seen hair dyed with colors which make you look like a character of a science fiction movie perhaps. Or as though you're trying to prove life on other 
Planets! Allah chooses a color for your hair, why on earth do you have to change it? Nothing can suit us better that what He who loves beauty and is 'Al-Musawwir' (The Fashioner/The Shaper of beauty) chose for us. Same goes of nail colors. They call it nail 'art' It is blasphemy to call it 'art'. Women go for it even if it does not suit them, they follow it because its a trend! Suits you or not is a secondary issue, first you have to survive in the race!

 At a sale on designer/brand outfits women be like:

اس راہ میں جان کی کیا پرواہ جاتی ھے اگر تو جانے دو

(Why worry about life, for the cause is so great, losing life would be no loss at all)

There are long ques and women try to reach the place before dawn, so as they don't miss out anything. Further there is this desire to be the first one to wear a certain outfit. Women direly need to revisit the purpose of their lives! That being the only solution.

If one tries to figure out the reasons behind this fashion stampede, it comes out to be complicated business. We are probably trying to prove our worth, trying to make our presence felt or probably trying to show-off. I fail to figure out why do you have to get all dressed up and put on heavy makeup to visit a market? Why do you have to be fashionably dressed while going to an educational institution? Do we have an underlying inferiority or perhaps superiority complex?

We need to think what is a trend? Anything that is followed by the people. Many don't realize that a trend is of no use if it doesn't suit you. Rather becomes counter-productive. Makes you look pitiable instead.

At the end its the personality that covers all that you wear. Personally I feel that one should remain closer to natural looks. Even if we follow a trend it should suit our age, values and personality. I am no one to comment on anyone or pass judgments though.

Grace is the best outfit, honesty the best make over and smile the prettiest look you could possibly have. Those beautiful at heart are a pleasure to be with and pretty to look at, always.