Swipe for smile 😁 Lil graphic eye for @butchpleaselondon ✨✨✨ Random Christmas side note - as we get into the real run up it’s just one day that has been commercialised out of the wahzoo. It’s ok not feel festive especially if you have trauma around this time which a lot of us do and even if you don’t it’s hard to look at the state of our country and how people are suffering and get into this Christmas spirit. So avoid the crowds, try to see friends, volunteer or donate as and when you can. Try out new Christmas traditions with new people. Practice your coping techniques. Chosen family are as valid as given family. Coping techniques that’s help me during this time that are free: Walking my dogs or with a friend or ideally all together. Calling a friend and having a FaceTime. Meditation Listening to a podcast with a upbeat vibe my fave is @mtgmpod personally I avoid things about murderers as interesting as it is I know deep down it triggers me. Exercise - working out at home, in the park or with a friend. Feel good videos of animals and people. Shoving my face towards the sun at every given opportunity so having a walk in my lunch break etc Journaling Self care treats - extra skincare, hair treatments, doing your nails. Fancy baths - get your essential oils out. Craft creating something I’m loving painting with water colour at the moments really enjoying just making colours, patterns and shapes the feeling of the brush dragging on the paper centres me. Knowing that every emotion even the darkest ones will lift or pass. Sitting in the discomfort and pushing through us sometimes all we can do. You are not alone even when you feel like you are ❤️ Eyebrows @barbaracarranza skincare @tropicskincare Face @itcosmeticsuki Brows @benefitcosmeticsuk eyeshadow @pixibeauty Hair @batiste_hair @ghdhair lips @nyxcosmetics #redhair #redhairdontcare #graphiceyeliner #skincare #skincareroutine #cutcrease #queerwomen #queerartist