Azhage Azhage Ethuvum Azhage

Anbin Vizhiyil Ellaam Azhage

Mazhai Mattumaa Azhagu

Sudum Veyyil Kooda Oru Azhagu

Malar Mattumaa Azhagu

Vizhum Ilai Kooda Oru Azhagu

The sweet melody wakes up Yashvi from her deep sleep early at 5 am. Grudgingly rubbing her eyes, she turns off the alarm on her phone and sits up straight on her bed. After a few deep breaths to slowly awaken herself, Yashvi pushes herself up and starts the daily morning routine.

Heading to the kitchen, Yashvi grabs all the ingredients for her healthy smoothie and blends the various fruits and vegetables together. Pouring it into a tall glass, Yashvi grimaces at gray concoction, and even considers dumping it down the sink. 

Does she hate this disgusting goop? Yes!

Is she still going to drink it? Unfortunately, yes.

Why? Because she wants to lose weight.

Resigning herself to her fate, Yashvi quickly gulps it down without even tasting. No one will make that mistake again.

"Just a little more weight," she thinks to herself before heading to the treadmill she had set up in the corner of her small house. Yashvi had bought that piece of equipment from a second hand shop after she felt uncomfortable jogging in the public. Everyone could easily see her unattractive sweaty running face.

After a quick stretch, Yashvi sets up the speed on the treadmill so that she could run 8 km in an hour. Her muscles started to ache by the 7th kilometer. However the reminder of her weight loss goal urged her to push forward while maintaining a controlled breath.

By the end of her workout, she was exhausted! It took her several minutes to catch her breath. When she finally felt like her chest wasn't on fire, Yashvi looked at the clock and was shocked that the time was already 6:37am! 

Scrambling to get up, she runs to the bathroom and takes a quick shower. After putting on a cute pair of pajamas, Yashvi dries her hair a little and wraps it up around the hair curler. Once the hair was secured, she took a closer look at what exactly she had to work with today. 

"Ugh! Looks like more hair grew around my lips. Wait, is that a pimple? Where did that come from? I already have so many blemishes on my face to cover up!" She thinks frustratedly.

Frowning at herself, Yashvi quickly picks up her color corrector and concealer and applies it around her face to cover up all of the blemishes and hyperpigmentations. To hide her masculine jaw, she slightly contours her face and adds a little blush to make it soft and feminine. Next she adds some powder and a brown eyeshadow to create a no makeup look. To subtly bring out her eyes, she puts on a thin layer of eyeliner and a little bit of mascara. As a final touch, she applies a clear lip gloss before releasing her hair to fall in curls. 

"Looks like this is the best it will get," she resigns to herself before heading back to her bedroom. After quickly rearranging the bed, she perfectly sets the camera so that the frame captures her sitting on the bed, with a beautiful city view through the window in her background. Yashvi slightly tosses her head to give a bedhead effect, and candidly poses for the camera. A hundred takes later, she finally finds a picture good enough.

With some minor edits to lighten her skin tone and make her face look a little less chubby, Yashvi posts it on her Instagram page with the caption "Just woke up🌞  Need to get ready for the busy day ahead 😊."

As soon as she uploads it, likes and comments flood her notifications. Just like usual, there were some complimenting her for looking beautiful right after she woke up, while others criticized her for being fake and superficial. Her dm's were being filled with complaints and pick up lines, that ranged from concerned to flirty to annoying to straight on creepy.

7:30 am. Just another usual morning

How is the story so far? I know it's not much and kind of short, but I already revealed a lot of the insecurities I have 😅.