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Here’s something to have a think about. Can visually impaired women enjoy make-up?
I’d be the first to put my hand up and say that I take my sight totally for granted – when I’m layering on too much eye-liner, or messing about with a smoky eye look – it has never occurred to me to wonder about those with no sight or partial sight. And yet, make-up is so much about eyes and how we can make our eyes look.
Eye health is a subject that doesn’t get a lot of attention in beauty world, but we’re in the best possible place to raise awareness because eyes are what we do!
I’ve just read a fabulous blog by Fashioneyesta HERE who has partial sight in one eye and limited vision in the other. She talks about make-up being the one area that she is in control of her eyes – while her sight is out of her hands, how her eyes look and are looked at is entirely up to her.
The RNIB supports people with sight issues – it’s a not a charity you have any reason to come across unless, god forbid, you or a family member has a sight problem. Which is why they’re asking us, as make-up lovers and social media users, to think about eyes and sight for a moment, and to imagine what it might be not to have it. Shockingly, 50% of sight loss is completely preventable.
So, with that in mind, the RNIB are asking us to share selfies of our eyes – which many bloggers do every day anyway – but use the hashtag #LoveYourEyes to really bring eye health into the public awareness. It’s a little hashtag that would mean a lot – and fun to nominate friends who love to do eye selfies. You can also add in that to donate £3 Text EYES to 70007. If you post your eye selfies using the #LoveYourEyes hash, please do tag me in so I can see your looks.. I’d love to!
If you’d like to know more about the RNIB and its work, go HERE.
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Lovely post, thank you for bringing some attention to such a worthy cause!
My mum actually does a lot of work for them. As an eye condition called Retinitus Pigmentoza . Which I may have misspelled.
Anyway my great grandmother,grandfather, mother and my sister, myself included have it. It’s a horrible condition , your pheriphal vision gets smaller. And your night vision gets worse. My mums sight is so bad now that if you stand to the side of her,she won’t be able to see you. And forget about badly lit places. She is registered legally blind. She isn’t a big makeup user. Just a touch of eyeshadow. Forget mascara. I’m lucky in that mine seems to be progressing slowly. I couldn’t imagine not wearing makeup.