To ladies and female-leaning enbies stumbling on this, ask yourself a question: do you want to look nice? Not what other people tell you or “expect”, what do you want?

If you find you do, then you can put some initial effort into working out a skincare and makeup routine. It’ll be slow, it’ll be messy, and you will have some initial misfires. Once you look good enough, write down the routine and do the same routine every day. Once you’ve got it down pat and into your muscle memory, it’ll stop being a chore and start just being that thing you do in the mornings, “putting your armour on” my wife calls it.

If you find you don’t care, which is absolutely 100% valid, then… you can just not. You don’t need anyone’s permission. I don’t. You don’t have to either.

Effort takes effort , which is a massive drain on energy levels. Not sure we can afford that kind of commitment in these trying times.

Works even when reading left to right: Effort takes effort. Let’s just make myself look nice and hope everything else works out.