The diet that has nothing to do with food & the danger of denial

My article for Her Campus this week is all about a new diet that has nothing to do with food but everything to do with the way we wear makeup. I talk you through the benefits of the new 5:2 proposal for our faces.

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However, it's so much bigger than that. With weekly crazes, the way we're 'told' to live our lives is becoming increasingly more dictatorial. It's meant to help us, yes...but why not help ourselves in our own way?

"It's an age old debate. Why diet when you could just eat healthily? Why structure our lives when we could just, in a wild act of self-assertion, decide whether or not we want to wear makeup that day? We’re split into the categories of ‘women who care too much’ and ‘women who care too little.’ We’re told that goodness comes through restriction and order. Don’t eat that; don’t wear that much makeup (even though we’re ‘expected’ to at least wear some); don’t allow yourself to look like you’re trying."

Read the full article here.