My beauty regime was obsessive. But in isolation, I have been liberated from caring | Katie Cunningham

Confined to my home, all reason to try has been temporarily suspended. To my surprise, it’s felt like exhaling

Back when Covid-19 first took hold, I experienced a small, personal revolution: I stopped wearing make-up.

In the before times, my beauty regime was obsessive in approach. I ran on a never-ending hamster wheel of manicures, facials, laser hair removal sessions, brow shaping appointments and eyelash extension infills (until I developed an allergy to the glue and was forced – mournfully – to switch to the humbler pastures of lash lifts). But with salons ordered to close, my finely tuned schedule was no more. And so, with a shrug, I simply gave up on the whole thing.

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