My Inner Hippie Adorns Itself.

Along with a greater interest in small town living and food sourced closer to where I live, another interesting off-shoot of my time in The 'Shire was a changed concept of the natural beauty of women and more specifically, how we choose to adorn ourselves. 

Here in the "Big City", you go anywhere, on any day and the majority of women you will see will be wearing at least some make-up, more than likely have hair which has been highlighted and/or colored, have toe and hand nails painted - that sort of thing. 

In The 'Shire, you would be lucky to find a woman who has done one of the above beauty regiments. Is it the closer relationship to the land around them, or just a simplified beauty aesthetic - I don't really know. All I know is it was different and I really liked it. I truly find it interesting how much time, effort and moola is sunk into one idea of beauty here, when a simpler concept of beauty is the norm there. 

For the last decade or so, I've slowly been going more and more "hippie" in my choices of crap-I-put-on-my-body: hair products, face stuff, makeup, nail color, etc. I will pay more for items which aren't petroleum based, which have derivatives of fruits, veggies, etc. Am I sucker? Maybe, but honestly, I think this crap makes me look and feel better so whatevs.