It’s Maybelline

Hope Rising
Out of the Woods
Published in
2 min readMar 27, 2022

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Photo by Jazmin Quaynor on Unsplash

I did not wake up like this, and neither did anybody else. To all the men talking out of both sides of their mouth: this one’s for you.

We are not God, just made in his image: there’s so many of you running around looking for perfection in His children. It’s likely that your girl did not wake up like this: and it’s okay that she’s not naturally flawless.

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Hope Rising
Out of the Woods

Divorced, biracial woman | 23 going on 65 | Editor for Out of the Woods | I write to heal myself and others | Support me at https://ko-fi.com/aashaanna