Wearing: H&M Top
Yesterday I learned that I look a thousand times better with my hair curled towards my face…
…even though every single hair curling tutorial on Instagram’s #1 rule (including my own) is to always curl your front pieces away from your face. However, thanks to Normal People‘s Marianne, I realized there was a different direction to curl my hair that may actually suit my hairstyle better. Low and behold, it worked.
Is the point of this post to talk to you about how it took me thirty years to realize how to style my hair to suit my face shape? No, it’s not. But rather about how just because you’ve been told the answer before doesn’t mean you should stop experimenting yourself.
These days, it seems like just about anything can be learned online. Whether it’s how to cook a dish, ride a bike, build a house, or get a degree, it’s out there. Someone has figured it out and is there to teach us the ropes, and I think that’s amazing. Education has never been more accessible or more widespread. If we ever get stuck, Google is there to tell us the best known way to do something. In fact, I just searched, “how to curl your hair,” and this is what came up: “For a more natural look, you’ll want to curl your hair away from your face. This means winding the hair down and around the wand of the curling iron in a clockwise direction on the right side of your face and a counter-clockwise direction on the left side.”
What if everything was always taken at face value? What if we all believed that the train was the fastest way of long distance travel, and airplanes were never invented? Yesterday reminded me the importance of staying curious and continuing to not only learn, but to teach ourselves. When was the last time you made a recipe and instead of “letting it bake for 20 minutes,” you watched it without a timer and figured out the amount of time it was best baked yourself?
Especially in a day and age where opinions are a dime a dozen, make your own! Everyone on social media wants to tell you “the best xyz” or “how to blah blah blah.” Even so, there’s nothing wrong with doing what you prefer. What you think is best doesn’t have to align with what everyone else has always believed. While some things are hard and proven facts, there is still so much room in this world for innovation and creativity. In school, I used to be accused of cheating in math class because I got the correct answer by a super different method. Because I hadn’t solved the problem how it was taught, it was considered wrong. But it wasn’t. I got the right answer, but had taught myself how to solve the problem in a way that made sense to me. Be you, and don’t think that you’re wrong just because you’re different.
Just a little food for thought that was on my mind today – I thought I would share if you were needing an inspiration boost during this down time. There’s no better time to go ahead and flip that curling iron, and see where it takes you!
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