Hot off the heels of our August Health Challenge, it’s time for the September Beauty Challenge! As we transition toward fall, let’s encourage each other toward new heights in all facets of beauty. Here is the plan!

WEEK 1 SEPTEMBER 2-8

Start keeping a beauty journal! Whether it’s an actual journal, a little space in your existing planner, or even a digital format, come up with a system to record your beauty goals and successes and lessons learned. Record how you achieved your favorite makeup looks, your tips for efficient thrift shopping, and your current skincare and fitness routines or anything else that seems helpful to remember, or more likely, annoying to forget and have to re-learn later!

WEEK 2 SEPTEMBER 9-15

Incorporate a new aspect of beauty that directly caters to your man, or one that objectively boosts your sexual market value. The advantage of our subreddit and other objective female-only subs like r/Vindicta apart, is that we directly confront the truth that no matter our stylistic or “aesthetic” preferences, our choices directly contribute positively or negatively to how attractive we are. So let’s go for a win and start/stop/change something in our approach to max our looks relative to the stronger sex 😘

WEEK 3 SEPTEMBER 16-22

Be your own influence. The key to the wardrobe planning systems we discuss here is that they are wholly oriented around being your best self, even if that means shirking trends of popular culture. Rather than encouraging you to get neck deep in the wardrobe planning (because let’s be real we all do it enough sans motivation 😜), let’s instead look to ourselves for style/beauty inspo. Creep yourself, shop your closet and vanity, and find something you love about your appearance and vibe. Find a way to lean into this in a way that works with what you currently know about your various types and physical truths.

WEEK 4 SEPTEMBER 23-29

Set the bare minimum. Kibbe calls it “Lazy Plus”, and some prefer the “Two Out of Three” method. Whatever your preference, come up with your own bare minimum standard for your appearance. Define what “lowest possible maintenance” means for you, the minimum possible effort you are happy with putting in on a daily worse case scenario basis, and get in the habit of not compromising on this.

Each week I will post a new thread to focus specifically on that week’s mini challenge, which will have links to this initial brainstorming post and subsequent weekly mini challenges! Can’t wait to be inspired by you all!