Sometimes I think I compensate the fact that I have undesired skin by developing a desired personality - so at least I won't be known as the acne-ridden guy, but instead, the funny guy or the chatty guy or whatever else. Of course I'm not saying that I pretend or act funnily for this reason (in fact I never really regarded it that way), but I think because I naturally am the way I am, it takes the focus off my acne - at least I hope.
Anyway, I stumbled upon this Youtube video, and boy, I listened to her story / tutorial in rapt attention. Nineteen-year-old, Cassandra Bankson wakes up each day, deploys an arsenal of make-up on her face, before stepping out onto her front porch for the world to see.
On this day, Bankson does just the opposite.
Stepping boldly before a webcam, Bankson undoes her make-up, revealing an acne laden skin, and layer by layer, she demonstrates her daily foundation routine for flawless skin, all for the world to see - over two million so far.
You can see her "bimbo-ish facade" (for the lack of a better word) immediately melting away from when she was wearing her make-up at first - I felt bad for judging her initially. At one point, she got a bit misty-eyed. Of course, it wasn't just her skin that was grazed, it was her confidence.
What amazed me most wasn't so much the transformation (though her skin did look "flawless", as promised), but her ability to remain hopeful. Bankson scoured the web and whipped up a tonne of research while paying visits to dermatologists and trying everything out.
Bankson today is a model, how successful I don't know, but one can easily connect the dots. She dreams of not just attaining a flawless face but to one day, model. She is naturally pretty but we all know that that's still a long shot for someone without perfect skin - at least that's what I thought before I saw this.
She hoped, as slim - or in her case, as skin-ny - hope may be.
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