Don't Let VANITY Stop You From Living Your Life!! ｜｜ Vanity VS. Taking Care Of Your Looks
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Summary
Vanity and taking care of your looks are two different things and there is a big difference between the two. I talk about the difference and why it is important to take care of yourself so that you do not become vain.
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Hello beautiful ladies and welcome to today's video where we're going to be talking about
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the difference between vanity and taking care of your looks.
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I think a lot of women and people just generally get confused between
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vanity and taking care of the way that you look because they do have some overlap.
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But there is a really big difference and I think it's important to know what that difference is
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because if you think that vanity and taking care of your looks is the same thing
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then you might not take care of your looks because you're afraid that that would be vain.
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And if you do take care of your looks you shouldn't have to feel bad about it if you're not crossing
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over into the line of vanity. So I really want to clarify what the difference is, what the line is,
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and let's get into it. So vanity is a whole host of things and I have actually a list right in front of
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me of the difference between vanity and taking care of your looks. So when I think of somebody
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vain I think of somebody who cares an unhealthy amount about the way that they look. They worry
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about it all the time they'll take hours upon hours to get ready and not just because they have the
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time or because it's fun but they literally will not take a picture or leave the house if they haven't
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sat down in front of a mirror and done their hair and makeup for hours upon hours. Now if you have the
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time or if you're going to an event or if you've planned that in advance I think that's okay but
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there are people who literally will not leave the house if they don't look like they have spent hours
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upon hours getting ready and that is a problem because vanity will prevent you from actually living
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your life. Now taking care of yourself that's a whole different matter. Taking care of yourself
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involves kind of keeping your nails clean if that means painting them or just keeping them filed or
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trimmed. Doing your hair maybe a few times a week so that it looks nice and you don't have to wash it.
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Doing a quick face of makeup or doing more if you have the time but not making everyone else wait
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while you get ready. It's making sure that you look beautiful and presentable when you go out into
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the world so that you make a nice first impression. It's not I need to look this way or I will not leave
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the house. It's I want to look presentable because that's important for mental health and it's good
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for me to take care of myself and to look like I take care of myself. Being vain is not about mental
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health. It's actually the opposite because it's not healthy how much you care about your looks. So if you
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just want to look nice, if you want to spend a little bit of time getting ready because you can,
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that is totally fine and it's important. It's good to take care of your looks. It's good to look nice
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but it can't be your entire focus. Another example of vanity is when you go out and you're with your
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friends and you're taking pictures and there's that one friend who has to look at every picture
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that's been taken and make sure that they retake the photo a bunch of times to make sure that they
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look perfect. That is vain. When you go out with friends and someone out of the kindness of their heart
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offers to take a picture of you, don't take advantage of that. That's vanity to just ask that
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person to take picture upon picture so that you look absolutely perfect or perfect to you. If you
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are just somebody who wants to look nice and is simply taking care of yourself, you'll recognize
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that photos are not about modeling opportunities. They're about making memories. This is something
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that I kind of like about myself is that I really don't care what I look like in photos most of the
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time. If my husband and I go out and we're taking pictures together, I really don't care if we don't
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look amazing in every photo. Now if I'm taking a picture for Instagram or for my work, I of course
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want to look nice so I'm not going to be super happy if the pictures I take for that don't look great.
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But when it's not for work, when it's just with friends or family and it's just something I'm going to
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put in a photo album, I don't need to look amazing. I can look just okay. I can look like I put in
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effort into my hair and put effort into my clothing and my makeup, but if my angle is off, who cares?
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No one else is going to see it except me and my grandkids, hopefully, if I save it for that long.
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So somebody who really cares about how they look in every single picture and doesn't ever want
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pictures taken of them because they don't want anyone to know what they look like from a bad angle,
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that's a problem. That is vain. And somebody who just wants to take care of their looks because
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they know it's important too is not going to care in the same way. Now if you're vain, another thing
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that you might do is you won't leave the house if you don't think you look perfect. You actually will
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not leave if you have a zit or you will not go out with your friends or your husband if your hair
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didn't turn out the way you wanted it. That is not what life is about and that is a sign that you're
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acting in a vain way. If you're living your life in a way where you want to take care of your looks
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but you're not going to drive yourself crazy and obsessively about how you look, then you know that
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life is more about experiences. So you want to look nice, you'll put in an effort, if things don't turn
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out 100%, you throw your hair up in a ponytail and you go out and you live your life. One of the things I did have to
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learn was how to do my makeup quickly. I used to do my makeup and it would always take a pretty long
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time and so I wouldn't make people wait but I personally would make sure that I had that amount
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of time before we left. I would start earlier so that my makeup was done and I realized it was really
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stopping me from having the time to just do life experiences because I always wanted my makeup to
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look absolutely perfect and that wasn't a great thing for me. So I learned how to do my makeup in five
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minutes in 10 minutes and even 15 minutes depending on the look so that if we wanted to do a spur of the
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moment trip I could look nice and not be crazy about it where I wouldn't leave the house. It's so
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much more important to live your life and have those nice experiences and just look presentable, look nice
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and not look like a model at every single second because at the end of the day those experiences are
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going to be what you remember. So taking care of your looks, looking nice, putting in a little bit of extra time
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and effort that's great but putting in so much time and effort that that is your main focus and you
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have to look good more than anything else that's vanity. Someone who is vain needs people to notice
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them. When they spend that much time on the way that they look it is imperative and important that
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people go out of their way to mention it, notice them, say something to them and if you are vain that's
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really what you live for. But if you are somebody who just is taking care of your looks, wants to look
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nice, someone like me who loves putting on nice clothing and doing my hair and doing my makeup
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but I don't need everyone in the room to say something to me or I need to be the focus of the
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attention or people to notice outright. I just want to look nice. It's not about people noticing me and
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going out of their way to notice me. It's more that I just fit in with the general atmosphere and don't draw
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attention to actually looking less nice than the people around me. And that is why taking care of
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yourself is so important because then you're not drawing attention to yourself by being the person
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who looks totally different and didn't take care of themselves. Whereas being vain is drawing
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attention to yourself for a totally different reason where it's I put in so much effort people
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have to notice me. People have to look at how beautiful I am. And this can really cross over into
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not just hair and makeup looks but also into the way that you exercise and eat.
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Being vain is really caring about the way that you look so much that you will never splurge on an
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ice cream cone. You will never eat anything that's unhealthy because you have to look like a model.
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Whereas taking care of yourself is eating healthily because it's good for you. Not because you need to
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look a certain way or fit into a certain skirt but because it's really important that you just be
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healthy. And so you eat healthily. Maybe you have an ice cream every now and then because hey it's fun
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it's summer time for goodness sake. But it's not that you have to look beautiful and you have to look cut
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and toned. You should look good. You should look healthy. You should put in effort into your body.
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And if you are a fitness person who's doing it because you love fitness that's a different thing
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altogether. But if it's because you need to look a certain way that's vanity. Being healthy is what
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somebody who takes care of themselves thinks about looking hot being attention grabbing that's vanity.
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And the last thing about being vain is that you will take more and more measures to be beautiful. You
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will be so intense about the way that you look that you will do anything to maintain what you believe
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is beauty. You might do liposuction or get a nose job or lip fillers and all of these things that you
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consider are your standards of beauty. But it just keeps on going and you don't ever have an end point
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because you always need to be better. Whereas if you are just taking care of your looks then you're not
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going to drive yourself crazy about the way that you look. You're not going to keep on going without
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an end point to make yourself beautiful. You're really just trying to maintain a certain level of
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beauty. Now I'm not totally against certain things. After you have a baby, if your body has taken some
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sort of hit and you really feel strongly about fixing that with surgery, hey, I'm not opposed to that. I
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understand it. But it's the women who are perfectly fine looking and beautiful and are still continually
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getting surgeries to make themselves look quote unquote better when it's really more about vanity.
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I'm not saying surgery to improve your appearance is always wrong. I'm just saying that if you are doing
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it forever and always to make yourself continually looking better so that you can get people's attention,
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you might want to consider if it's for the right reasons and if it's for vanity's sake. When you're
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taking care of your looks you really just want to maintain that certain level of beauty that will
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give you a good feeling for your mental health but more than that will just make sure you look
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presentable when you go out into the real world and that is super important. So as you guys know I'm a
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huge proponent of taking care of the way that you look, exercising, eating healthy, brushing your
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hair, doing your makeup, all of those things are super important. Of course we don't want to cross
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over into vanity territory but I wanted to clear up the difference between those two things because I
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think that there is some sort of confusion about taking care of your looks being vanity and if you need
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to take a few minutes in the morning to beautify yourself that's not vanity. You want to be presentable,
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you want to look nice, but you're not consciously trying to draw attention to yourself in an obsessive
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way and so that for me is the big big difference. Let me know in the comments what you think the
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difference between vanity and taking care of yourself is, how you take care of yourself in a
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way that you don't think leans over into vanity. Let me know your thoughts. Thank you guys so much for
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