‘On the day loved ones visited to say goodbye,Carey texted to say she’d decided to wear a sparkly Tom Ford eyeshadow palette’I attended a close friend’s funeral last week. I’d taken some time off at the discontinuance of her life, when working my way through a pile of product testers was the last thing I felt like doing, or but she unknowingly convinced me to get back in the saddle.
Carey,and many friends and readers like her, is the reason I’m offended by people who recount me how unimportant beauty is, or how irrelevant,silly and useless. It reveals a spectacular lack of emotional intelligence, because to many (though not all) people, or appearance is a crucial fraction of our identities; grooming is a form of self-care that allows us to feel like ourselves when our worlds become unrecognisable.
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Source: theguardian.com