I will eat my words if today isn’t day #4 of my Makeup Series.

“Makeup can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn’t help if you are ugly on the inside, unless you eat your makeup.”

Outside

I am a firm believer that our outsides matter.  They matter because we are sensual creatures. By sensual I mean we have senses.  We see, hear, touch, smell and taste the world around us, the outside of the world.  We get our information, in large part, from those senses.  Even the sense that might seem internal, hearing, is just as much about the outside of how a person’s voice sounds, as the actual words they say.  For example, if they are said with a grating voice, the internal message of the words can be lost.

Inside

Let’s define ‘inside’ before we go on, shall we?  By ‘inside’ I do not mean your liver or ovaries or lungs or spleen or testicles.  I don’t mean your heart either.  Not your pumping heart at least. I do mean your mind and the heart that resides in the middle of that.  That mind and heart inside you matter more than your outside.  It’s not all that matters, it is however, what matters most.  It matters because outer beauty doesn’t comfort the afflicted. Inner beauty does that.  Outer beauty does not feed the hungry. Inner beauty does that.  Outer beauty doesn’t take care of an elderly parent, a sick child, a wounded soldier, a devastated town.  Inner beauty does that.  Outer beauty doesn’t show sympathy, kindness, patience, or forgiveness.  It doesn’t love.

Your Inside Edge is Outside

Then what’s the use of outer beauty? Why pay attention to it?  Think of it as the outer edge of your inside. It’s not separate from your interior, it’s just the part of your interior that is at the edge, the edge that connects you to other people.  You care about your inside world of thought and meaning, then care about how those things move out into the world as well. It’s through your outside edge that it happens.

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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman

Quote by Audrey Hepburn, 1929-1993, Dutch born American actress.  

young Audrey Hepburn – 1930s

Edda van Heemstra aka Audrey Hepburn – Dance Student – WWII

During WWII, while living in The Netherlands, she changed her name to Edda van Heemstra to allay suspicion about her British roots (her father was British).  The story goes that by the end of the war her and her family were reduced to eating tulip bulbs to survive.  

She was known, and still is, as one of the most beautiful women in the history of film. 

Audrey Hepburn – How To Steal A Million – 1966

And she knew how to use her makeup.

Audrey Hepburn Applying Lipstick Before Academy Awards Presentation – 1954

But she was much more average in outer beauty (as are most Hollywood celebs) than we often realize. She had circles under her eyes, and her other ‘imperfections’, as do we all.

Audrey Hepburn on Broadway in Gigi – 1951

But she was a total beauty because her outer beauty was the manifestation of her inner beauty, her mind and heart. That’s why she was just as beautiful in the photo below as she was in the photos above.

Audrey Hepburn, UNICEF ambassador in Ethiopia – 1988

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