And discovering that my body was actually my own and that with practice and discipline I could do, really, anything.
From being this very gangly, sort of just skinny, not strong person. It's like getting guns.
My mother took me aside and said, "Darling, I think we should share a little botox."
And I was like, "Mommy? What?" And I have a scar on my forehead. I have a scar; I fell face-first on the pavement because I was so gangly and tall that I didn't get my hands out and landed on my face.
And so, I had this scar and it was becoming this wrinkle. And I was young; I was 24, 23. And so, my mom wanted me to go and get botox so that my scar wouldn't wrinkle anymore. And we did a couple of times.
We went through a couple of times and it sort of made me look at my face a different way. I was like, "Ooh, something's wrong. Something is wrong with my face."
And then, years went by and I sort of, you know, criticize myself every day as one does looking in the mirror. And I looked and I saw these, the smile lines. And I remember consciously thinking, "I really don't want to get rid of those." I like the lines on my face that are happy lines.
I was actually in San Diego yesterday and I was working behind the camera for one of our company video shoots.
And I told them, I said, "Hey, tomorrow, I'm gonna be doing this fun thing for BOOM Cosmetics." And Michelle, who I worked for, reaches into her purse and pulls out her BOOMSTICK.
And she's like, "Oh my god. I love this. I keep this with me wherever I go." And she's, you know, in her 60s and glowy and fabulous.
I love how easy it is. And I love that, like, the glowy stick, the pinkish-reddish one, it works for everything. Like, you can use it on your lips, you can use it on your cheeks, you can use it...I like to put a little bit here just as kind of a highlight.
I think it makes you look a little bit like you've been out in the sun, which of course nobody would ever do.
I have a theory about joy sneaking out of your face.
Like, every once in a while, you'll look at someone and you'll see something truly authentic about them, and even if they're not the most typically beautiful person, you can see, like, joy sneaking out of their face. And I think that that...it radiates.
And I think, you know, we live through pain and we live through joy, and we absorb all these experiences. And they do, they radiate out of your face.
The people who can embrace the things that happen in life and find happiness and find peace, I think all of those people have beautiful faces.
Whether they're mathematically beautiful faces or beautifully lined faces, you know, beautifully silly faces. I think these are the people I'm attracted to now. Like, just beauty sneaking out of your face.