I Quit Makeup for 2 Years. Here's What I Learned.
Growing up in Russia, I was told I was beautiful so often that it became suffocating. Then, at 19, my father said something that cracked the foundation of everything I believed about beauty and worth.
Years later, moving to Germany forced an even bigger reckoning — with makeup, with professional identity, and with what “looking good” really means when you strip away cultural conditioning. So I ran an experiment on myself. I quit makeup entirely. Not for a week. For years.
In this episode, I share that journey and the stories from our Wonder Wardrobe community that inspired it: women who say they feel more beautiful now than they ever did when they were younger. What do they know that the rest of us are still figuring out?
Plus: a listener Q&A on what to do when you love a piece that just doesn’t work for you.
