you: skincare culture is bad
me, gently patting my baby-soft cheek: skincare culture is neither good nor bad, but merely a manifestation of the appearance-obsessed culture we live in that i consider a step up from makeup culture, which focuses on literally obscuring and redrawing your features to fit an increasingly narrow and often racist set of standards; an upside to paying close attention to skincare is that it often rewards people with the confidence to wear less and less makeup and accept their features as they are; also none of this matters because we’re all gonna die
