Rationale of Dressing Up.
I HATE dressing up.
I HATE putting make up on.
so...
WHY do I have to dress-up?
WHY do I have to use cosmetics and do myself up?! WHY WHY WHY WHY?
ARE physical appearances THAT important?
AND GIVE ME A REASON BEYOND THE SUPERFICIAL. I NEED TO KNOW WHY IM DOING THIS.
Yes – you see it everyday caked, plastered and (sometimes, smeared) on various individuals who waltz in and out of your otherwise mundane day-to-day activities.
I recently spent a particularly relaxing Monday curled up on the couch watching movies and TV with Charlie, Milo and later Josh (NB: all of whom I know couldn’t give a rats bum what I physically look like).
But sadly.. as I’ve come to realise…in my (ahem) professional line of work both as a financial planner and training as a voice teacher (which right now I may or may not complete but that’s another story we shall not go there)
YES!!! You do have to dress up.
YES!! You do have to use make-up and cosmetics.
YES!!! Physical appearances are important in this world.
Because I am a working professional. In all honesty, bothering to dressing up makes me feel good about myself. If I take pride in my appearance and dress to fit the occasion, I boost my confidence, and in turn, my clients trust in me.
Because I am relational. People relate to what they know. In society, that’s what people do. They (well vast majority) dress up everyday. They choose what they wear, and they carefully apply stroke by stroke their make up to almost perfection. By implementing this in my own life, I am in actual fact (okay if I do it right), putting people more at ease. My face becomes somewhat easier to look at and relate to!
Because leaving a good impression is important. In the first 10 seconds they meet you, people have formed a conclusion about you. And, having nothing else to go on except your face (and physical appearance), its important for you to make them feel comfortable with you. Smiling helps.
Dressing up and make up was always an awkward subject when I was growing up. I must admit I was (okay, am) lucky enough to have best friends like Jamie, Rachel and Mann that corrected my every fashion faux pas every Sunday when we had to dress up for church. Later when we hit our late teenage years, they very kindly took me out shopping for cosmetics and clothes and taught me how to wear make up. Terms like “Eye-shadow, foundation, blusher, brushes” were pretty much foreign to me until they came along.
Now at 23 years of age this subject of a fashion sense has more than once breached my conscious. But just recently, the art of dressing up and looking good is no longer something that I do just for the luxury of looking good, but for the deeper reasons of relating to people, and for the sake of my career haha.
deb's outta there..
