Your Daily WTF: Lipgloss Edition.

[sechan19]

A couple days ago on my way to my mother's for Thanksgiving, I stopped off at a station to fill up the tank. (As an aside, the cost of gas was $1.49 per gallon--which is a WTF in its own right, but I'm going to stay on point here.) Inside the minimart I noticed a display of assorted objects for sale that included a bunch of lipglosses called Wabi Sabi. "Wabi Sabi" refers to a Japanese aesthetic of naturalness that emphasizes the beauty of impermanence and imperfection. However, it implies an undercurrent of sadness, or loneliness, and its emotional impact on the senses. From the casual point of view, I can see how the use of the title "Wabi Sabi" is meant to refer to some kind of natural or imperfect beauty. But somehow it just seems ridiculous to me to apply such a varied and complex term, that derives from a profound spiritual tradition, to something as mundane as lipgloss.

But then again, maybe it's appropriate.

I think I'll buy some on my way home, because (after all) WTF, right?