Wearing red lipstick has been an absolute I have lived for years. For the last 6 months it has been an unbreakable substantiation I bring to work.
Over the holidays, I have found and bought a dusty rose coloured lipstick that I adore. This is not a lipstick colour normal for me, but there was something I really love about it, it blends into the lips with a gorgeous harmony. I started wearing this lipstick when I went on my vacation away from Hong Kong.
When I returned to Hong Kong and went back to work after the holidays, I have gotten used to wearing this dusty rose lipstick, and I wore it to work. I haven’t seen my colleagues for a long time, as we are working on different projects and we may also come to the office in different days.
For the first day when I saw them back in the office, one colleague did not say Hi but instead the first thing that came out of her mouth was “why are you not wearing makeup?”
Actually, I was wearing makeup, but my lipstick has been changed from red to a dusty rose, however, to her, it felt like I wasn’t wearing makeup.
So when I answered, “I am wearing makeup”, she pin-pointed the fact that she usually sees me wearing red lipstick, but not today.
Even though this came out a little awkward, I felt her deep urge to connect. And I also felt the responsibility of my movements, to not drop radiance, no matter what lipstick colour I was wearing. So I put on my red lipstick yesterday, and will save the dusty rose lipstick for my weekends or when I travel if that is what is called for. I do not choose which lipstick I use, I can only respond to the call that is being asked of. And since this colleague of mine made the call, I will respond to keep shining the true effortlessness of radiance in the office and beyond. Because I also observed that she came into the office with a new orange colour for her hair, as well as two other female colleagues came back with fresh curls that looked amazing! Not holding back in flaunting our radiance in how we look and move, the entire office feels alive.
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