{"id":1421381,"date":"2022-04-06T08:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421381"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:15:51","slug":"8-ways-to-cultivate-feminine-beauty-while-living-in-a-world-that-scorns-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-ways-to-cultivate-feminine-beauty-while-living-in-a-world-that-scorns-it\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Ways To Cultivate Feminine Beauty While Living In A World That Scorns It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F8-ways-to-cultivate-feminine-beauty-while-living-in-a-world-that-scorns-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/adult-attire-awake-beautiful-beverage-brunette-1633649-pxhere.com_.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s 2022 and society tells us the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/24\/the-trans-lobby-doesnt-just-want-to-erase-womens-sports-it-wants-to-erase-women\/\">best<\/a> women are men (but who can <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/23\/if-ketanji-brown-jackson-doesnt-know-what-a-woman-is-why-does-she-use-the-word-so-much\/\">define a woman<\/a> anyway?). Meanwhile, so-called feminists are doing their darndest to send their fellow females to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/27\/the-feminist-left-thinks-the-best-thing-it-can-do-for-women-is-send-them-to-war\/\">war<\/a> and convince mothers that killing their babies is empowering. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re deluged with a narrative that says ugly is the new beautiful. To make matters worse, spiking <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/29\/heres-how-much-bidenflation-is-really-taking-out-of-your-bank-account\/\">inflation<\/a> threatens our basic expenses, not to mention those favorite little splurges that make the everyday more lovely. What\u2019s a girl to do?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s far more to womanhood than a set of habits, but practicing ways to bring order and beauty to our surroundings can be a blessing to ourselves <em>and<\/em> others in a world that far more often elevates the grotesque. Here are eight simple ways to do so in your daily living.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Write Notes<\/h2>\n<p>The age of instant messaging has largely doomed our stationery to the dustbin, but taking the time to write a thank-you note, birthday card, or \u201cpraying for you\u201d memo is a simple way to practice thoughtfulness. You\u2019ll get three things in one: penmanship practice (an art even further lost), a moment of being just a tad bit less reliant on Big Tech, and a chance to bless a friend with something far more tangible and personal than a text. Pretty or personalized stationery isn\u2019t necessary, but you might find it makes the process even more pleasant.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Call Your Friends<\/h2>\n<p>Notecards are lovely, but there\u2019s another alternative to the quick texting conversation: picking up the phone. Phone calls terrified me as a kid, and my generation is known for never quite getting over that apprehension. But voice inflection covers a multitude of miscommunications, and a quick \u201clol\u201d is no substitute for ringing laughter.<\/p>\n<p>In our mobile society, nearly all of us have those \u201clong-distance friends\u201d we never catch up with as much as we\u2019d like, and we all know those paragraphs-long texting updates are nearly impossible to keep going. Schedule a phone call, or \u2014 if you\u2019re the kind of person who never gets around to such things \u2014 just cold call a friend when you find a spare minute. Even if she isn\u2019t available, she\u2019ll know you thought of her and the door will be opened to finding another time.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Wear Everyday Jewelry<\/h2>\n<p>Jewelry doesn\u2019t have to be for dressy occasions only\u00a0\u2014 and it also doesn\u2019t\u00a0have to be those chunky, colorful acrylic necklaces that fill the endcaps of your local Plato\u2019s Closet. A simple gold pendant necklace or a dainty heirloom ring, for example, can elevate the simplest of outfits. As a bonus, you may find signature pieces that help you cultivate your sense of your own style.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Gather Favorite Recipes<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ll be the first to confess that I have little culinary interest and even less culinary talent. But I have fond memories as a kid of pulling down my mom\u2019s big recipe notebook and finding recipes that were written down and shared from friends and family members. Preparing a meal is a lost art these days, but even if you see cooking as a chore, remembering a loved one each time you make his famous birthday cake icing or legendary marinade makes it less of one.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Cultivate a Coffee Table<\/h2>\n<p>Our homes \u2014 be they studio apartments or farmhouses \u2014 are one of the most immediate ways women can cultivate beauty, order, solace, and warmth around us. If that sounds intimidating, start with the humble coffee table. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike your kitchen table, which is likely home to the daily mail pile and where a pretty centerpiece might be moved to make room for dinner, the coffee table can afford to serve a more decorative and less functional purpose. Showcase your favorite book (large, clothbound coffee table books are my guilty pleasure), a warm candle, a family photo album, or a floral arrangement, and practice the art of curating.<\/p>\n<h2>6. Print Your Photos<\/h2>\n<p>Just as the information overload of the digital age has dulled our capacity for retention, the ability to snap 50 photos in one instance can leave our camera rolls unnecessarily full of duplicative photos while burying the ones we\u2019d care most to cherish. It\u2019s great to have thousands of photos at the touch of a button, but try printing a few of your favorites to keep them at the forefront. <\/p>\n<p>Display them via frames or a pinboard, or catalog them in a scrapbook. They\u2019ll last far longer than your phone will; even if you back up your digital photos, a decade from now you (or your kids) are more likely to pull a photo album off the shelf than go digging through a hard drive or cloud folder full of thousands of snaps.<\/p>\n<h2>7. Keep a List of Your Favorite Quotes (and Read the Authors Who Write Them)<\/h2>\n<p>I have just such a list in my notes app on my phone, which I add to anytime I hear or read a quote that stands out to me. Some are profound \u2014 \u201cPerseveringly depend even where thou canst not rejoicingly hope,\u201d from Charles Spurgeon \u2014 and some are simply lovely: \u201cThe sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen,\u201d from Homer\u2019s \u201cOdyssey.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve picked up most of them just in the course of reading books. Imbibing the work of thoughtful, winsome authors is a welcome change from the captions of Instagram reels, and I\u2019ve found that my own writing is improved after reading the work of an author I respect.<\/p>\n<p>You can do this with favorite Bible verses too \u2014 I write them on the inside cover of my prayer journal.<\/p>\n<h2>8. Make Breakfast a Delight<\/h2>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re rushing off to work, scrambling to feed a posse of preschoolers, or corralling a family to church, it\u2019s hard to get everything done in the morning and harder still to do so in an orderly fashion. Some days it\u2019s a praiseworthy accomplishment just to make it to lunchtime alive.<\/p>\n<p>But order is a form of beauty, so when you can, start with the same routine each morning \u2014 whether it\u2019s composed of washing your hair, putting on a flick of mascara, reading your Bible, brewing coffee, taking vitamins, doing pilates, or all of the above. <\/p>\n<p>Eating breakfast specifically is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/johns-hopkins-childrens-center\/what-we-treat\/specialties\/nephrology\/programs-centers\/obesity-hypertension-clinic\/_documents\/eating-right-wake-up-benefits-breakfast2.pdf\">good<\/a> for your heart, bones, digestion, and metabolism. Since you\u2019re hopefully already eating something anyway, if you can afford the time, try to sit down at the kitchen table to eat your morning meal. Put fresh-cut flowers on the table, or light a candle, or just watch the world wake up outside your window. Multitask by doing your morning devotionals or morning scan of the news while you eat, if you have to. <\/p>\n<h2>The World Needs Beauty<\/h2>\n<p>Between our culture\u2019s instantaneous nature and its push to stretch the definition of beauty beyond all recognizable bounds, many of our simple habits that make life more lovely have eroded. But many women are looking for ways to cultivate beauty in their lives, as my friend Evita Duffy <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/01\/how-the-romanticize-your-life-tik-tok-trend-is-a-gen-z-rejection-of-postmodernism\/\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The reality is that contemporary culture is unfulfilling for the young people who are being formed by it. It is incapable of revealing greater truths about life because it doesn\u2019t believe in truth itself. Everything is a social construct, nothing is innate, and morals are relative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is painful to believe one\u2019s life is meaningless, and that is exactly why the \u2018romanticize your life\u2019 trend has had such a strong and lasting grip on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to capture those quietly beautiful parts of your day on social media to make them enjoyable. Embrace loveliness and femininity, and you\u2019ll stand out from the madding crowd.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 2022 and society tells us the best women are men (but who can define a woman anyway?). Meanwhile, so-called feminists are doing their darndest to send their fellow females<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}