{"id":221198,"date":"2016-06-09T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=221198"},"modified":"2016-06-09T15:44:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:44:27","slug":"beauty-shouldnt-break-your-bank-lydia-forson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/beauty-shouldnt-break-your-bank-lydia-forson\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty shouldn\u2019t break your bank \u2013 Lydia Forson"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe goal of my blog is to, first, have fun myself and then to encourage other people to have fun, while taking care of themselves. Explore various beauty products, play around with them, read on the benefits that they can offer, start a club or sorts with your friends. And for those, who would say that I\u2019m pushing the agenda of living an expensive lifestyle, let me say this; beauty shouldn\u2019t break your bank<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Award-winning Actress, Lydia Forson has been acting on screen for nearly ten (10)years, dating back to cameo roles in Hotel St.James, Different Shades of Blue<\/em>, a stint in a reality show (The Next Movie Star<\/em>) , extending to her highly popular role as Dea Thompson in Shirley Frimpong-Manso\u2019s\u00a0Scorned<\/em>. But Lydia is also known for her strong and controversial opinions and, recently, I have come to love Lydia for a third reason; her blogging website, \u00a0lydiaforson.com\u00a0, which explores the Ghanaian lifestyle landscape, from a very interesting perspective.<\/p>\n This is the particular quote from lydiaforson.com that got me excited:<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve heard of the Bentonite Clay mask for a while now, but for years I thought it was one of those hard to get products.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Who knew that bentonite clay is our very own\u00a0ayilo or shile as some would call it here in Ghana?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Once I found out I\u2019ve been hooked and it\u2019s become a ritual for me and my skin feels amazing.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As a natural hair girl, a feminist and an advocate of natural beauty products and as a black woman who struggles with acne and hyper-pigmentation issues on a daily basis, I had been doing some research on the benefits of Bentonite Clay, which led me to an article on Lydia\u2019s website and got me to call her up.<\/p>\n I asked her what she thought about Ghanaian women and our apparent obsession with beauty and expensive beauty products and this is what she had to say.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that I\u2019m as obsessed with beautiful skin, as I am obsessed with living a healthy lifestyle. I believe that true beauty is about feeling better about yourself, so that you can live a fuller life, so that you can live longer and the people around you can enjoy your presence and your society can benefit from all of the wonderful things that you, as an individual, has to offer. \u00a0That\u2019s the most important thing for me. Yes, there are several products for skin conditions such as acne, and so on and sometimes you might be required to see a dermatologist and to buy expensive products. But for many Ghanaian women, they spend so much money on beauty products, because it\u2019s a luxury that they can afford. And because other women see these trends, they assume that taking care of yourself and investing in beauty products is expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n