Glad you're finding your own way. Iprnnswcret is that none of the ways "everybody else does it" wirks for anyone else because it's all pretty much Influencer crap designed to make you feel bad enough about yourself to buy stuff you don't need to "improve" yourself. Like you're not enough and will never be enough as you are.

Cue up massive eyeroll. 🙄.

Predatory capitalism at its finest. Right?

I see you're on a feminist journey. Welcome! In and amongst your feminist study, pick up Naomi Wolf's book The Beauty Myth from your local library or off Kindle or something. It handles the topic of how we are propagandized by markering campaigns to be insecure in our appearance just to build and sustain an industry to keep the old capitalist engine chugging along. Glad to have you around.