Life update

Y'all it’s gonna be a quick life update, not talking about school though, I’m gonna do that later cus its 12am 30…

Anyway, so for some reason since everyone is depressed at home self care has been a bit demonized I think, although not purposefully, to the point the house was a mess, stinky, dishes piling up etc, but recently it has been bothering me quite a bit to go with this routine of school, household work, and then bed 

I asked my mom for pocket money initially to buy self care gifts for my friend because she really works hard and has literally perfect grades every year but her parents aren’t really the most documented on self care, can’t blame them, they have already enough knowledge (they’re physics and chemistry teacher and history and French teacher) 

So she has curly hairs so I bought her a satin hat, hair lotion for her to style her curls, a hair brush for curl definition, some perfume too

And I really realized that I wanna treat her for her hard work but I’m not treating myself for all the stuff I put up with, and I really started taking a liking to self care shopping, mu skincare used to be only pharmacy stuff, bc I have some skin issues, whatever, I started by buying a bottle of Vaseline body lotion, then another one for hyperpigmentation, I bought body mist for myself and when I showed those to my mother, she looked so much happier and excited, especially at the body mist because it smelled like an old perfume she bought me in 6th grade, I stopped wearing it bc the scent was way too strong, anyway 

I realized scents aren’t just to smells good but it really shifts your whole mood, ever since I started taking care of myself I look forward to showering, something I haven’t been regular with due to mental health, stress and the fact I’m constantly busy, my mom looks so much happier now that she can pamper herself for a bit, I feel much more at ease and sleep more comfortably and easily

So this month I spent about 60 bucks on self care products 😭 (thank you mom for having the “money is meant to be spent” mentality and having no issue funding my happiness :3)

And I plan on buying skin care products next month because I have some bad acne and the fact that I pick at it because of anxiety makes it even worse 💀

Should I keep it in the shopping section? Idk, I ranted too much, I think it fits better in life section, or both…