The Importance of Not Showering

We all grew up, well hopefully, being taught that personal hygiene is an important thing. This is not discouraging personal hygiene in the least bit! However, there are many disadvantages of showering everyday. There is more bacteria on your body than cells that make up your body. Daily use of soaps, shampoos, etc. can separate this necessary bacteria from your body, which your body needs! Your skin produces natural oils that keeps your skin and hair looking and feeling like real skin and hair. When you shampoo your scalp, whether  you have a lot of hair, or only a few hairs, its depleting your pores of those natural oils which in turn, dries out your skin. I know I experience itchy skin in the winter time after I shower. Especially in the winter time, peoples skin dries out because there is less moisture in the air, causing dry hands, cracked lips, and itchy skin. Moisturizing during the winter time is so important, even for guys! Now, if you decide not to shower every day, it doesn't mean you aren't clean. You can still brush your teeth, put on deodorant, and wash your face, if necessary. Being an active individual and working at a fast food restaurant, that's a different story and I go against my advice. Do as I say, not as I do. Sweating brings up another point, too. Actual sweat is not the thing that smells. What you're smelling is the bacteria on your skin breaking down the sweat. On that note, stay clean. :)

Leggings, Jeggings, and Yoga Pants

I'm just going to start off by saying if you're of the male species and don't really understand what women are wearing these days, this is the post for you! Talking about skin tight clothing might interest you a little bit also.

Yoga Pants:
I think many women these days can agree that yoga pants, more often than not, are not used for yoga. When I think of yoga pants I think they're for lounging around when I'm just not motivated enough to put pants on. Originally they were supposed to be used for... well... YOGA. They're a tight, stretchy fabric that wouldn't get in the way of doing head stands and downward dog. The material used in yoga pants is mostly spandex and/or a sweat wicking fabric for more physical activities including yoga, biking, running, etc.

Leggings:

Next are leggings. My first experience with legging was when I was in about fifth grade. Leggings were something like tights but they were open on the bottom, they had no fabric covering your feet. They were also a little bit thicker, typically. Usually you wore them under a shorter skirt, my mom always made me wear them so I didn't look like a "floozy."  As the evolution of leggings made it's way into today's world, girls wear them as pants. Now I personally don't find anything wrong with that, as long as I can't see undergarments. At that point I think you need to reevaluate the mirror and lighting situation in your home. Also I would be mad at anyone that you live with that let you walk out of the house with your underwear showing through your leggings. There are plenty of leggings on the market that are thick enough so your goods don't show.



Jeggings:
Soon after people discovered leggings, nobody wanted to wear jeans, but not everyone wants to flaunt their goodies all the time either. So someone, somewhere, was creative enough to think up the idea of jeans that were as comfortable as leggings, but still looked like jeans. These days you can't even tell what someone is wearing. Leggings, jeggings, jeans, yoga pants. Whatever you decide to put on in the morning, be comfortable, have your own style, and most importantly, be yourself.