Sonya Renee Taylor

2017 article from Self magazine reported that the average American woman spends $15,000 on beauty products over the course of her lifetime. Nearly $3,000 is spent on mascara, $2,000 on eye shadow, and $1,700 on lipstick

When given the opportunity to think about how we would spend our money if we thought of it as a powerful and abundant resource (which, by the way, it totally is), we choose things that bring us closest to the epicenter of our joy and remind us of what is central about being alive

matter.
We humans are masters of distraction, using makeup, weight loss, and a finely curated self-image to avoid being present to our fears, even as they build blockades around our most potent desires