What I Learned From Doing Nothing to My Face for a Month
Makeup By Remi — Behind the Scenes
I didn’t set out to make a statement. After a medical procedure required me to pause my usual routine, I found myself stepping back—from the mirror, from the steps, from the noise that often accompanies beauty rituals. For one month, I put down the brushes and stepped away from the full face, the false lashes, the layers of polish. Just skin. Just me.
What unfolded was unexpected. It wasn’t a rejection of makeup—it was a reckoning with how I had been using it. The break gave me the space to witness my own habits, to question what I was hiding beneath the products and what I was longing to reveal. When I returned to my kit, it wasn’t with less, but with more intention. I didn’t wear less—I wore better. Clarity replaced excess. Presence replaced performance. Restraint replaced overwhelm.
This journey wasn’t about abandoning beauty—it was about reclaiming it on my own terms. In an industry that often equates “more” with impact, I found power in subtlety. Beauty became less about covering up and more about showing up—authentic, deliberate, and unapologetically real.
xx,
Remi O.