Rosita's Dream Vanity

Hello!!! Elio and Rossy here!! This year we are trying to take "Rosita's Dream Vanity" to Burningman and we need your help.  Anything you can donate is "SUPER APPRECIATE IT"!!!!

Read the story below so that you can understand how important it is that we share our Magic Vanity with the entire Burningman community.  ROSITA'S DREAM VANITY BELONGS IN PLAYA!!! Help us get it there.


The Vanity —the vanity of the human being...we move and are forced through life with the concept or the fact that being pretty is the one adequate way to stand out…to be accepted. We live by that and we LOVE it…we strive for that “beautifulness” the one that gives us the looks, the stares, the open jaws, the “LIKES” the “FOLLOWS.” We look to BE that “BEAUTIFULNESS” that gives us the popularity, the job, the attention that we CRAVE…the high of knowing all eyes are on us everywhere we go. We are VAIN and we LOVE it.

 

We look at others. We look everywhere in search of the "ONE" we have to compare ourselves to and reach that “PRETTY” or that “GORGEOUS.” We look for years because from the time we can remember…looks drive society. From the time we are little we believe being pretty will get us the popular friends, the invitations to birthday parties, the “IN” to the important circles…PRETTY and HANDSOME makes us feel inflated….and we LOVE it.

 

What happens if you don’t feel pretty?? What happens if you look around and look at yourself and realize you are not their “PRETTY” … how do I know how pretty I should be??…who do I pick to mirror?? We have to find the gage, the unit of measure…how do we know who we should copy to become the “PERFECT PRETTY”. How do we figure that out?? Who will tell us?? We want to be PRETTY…we want to be GORGEOUS…we need to be GORGEOUS and we will make that happen at all costs.

 

We, the Rojas twins, as we want to introduce ourselves to you, not because we are actually twins but because our connection is beyond being 1 year apart siblings. We have lived a life in a society where not being “PRETTY” was not an option…You have to be beautiful…so we felt like we had to search for the “gage,” “measuring tape,” “balance,” “scale.” The one thing that will tell us if we are pretty!! What would that instrument be??? We searched and looked until there it was, there was THE VANITY… we found this vanity!!

 

As kids we never had a vanity we could sit on, look at ourselves in its mirror and study what we saw and figure out how to be GORGEOUS…the vanity that would show us the “VAIN US” right??…We found it, we cleaned it, equipped it with accessories and tools to fix ourselves and finally be BEAUTIFUL... we sat down to look…but no, nothing! this vanity didn’t show us the instant beautiful we expected to see and mimic… it didn’t show us the model beauty we should reach but instead, this magical vanity surprised us by showing us no reflection at all…WHAT?? Where is it??? Where is perfect us??? The perfect face!!! The DAZZLING face and body we’re supposed to be??? Is it broken???

 

We thought, we finally have our vanity and it’s not giving us the pattern we should mold ourselves to…there was no reflection at all, or so we thought. We sat there and knew that there was something else to this vanity. This was not just an ordinary vanity so we then had to figure out how to make it work and why there was no reflection. We decided to close our eyes and it was then we realized this was an enchanted vanity. With eyes closed, we asked the vanity to show us perfect beauty, and so it did. It was not at all what we expected but instead showed us exactly what we looked like. It showed us our faces just like they were at that moment and told us to STOP LOOKING at something specific but to look around and see that everything we are surrounded by is beautiful. Our magic vanity gave us the answer we were looking for.

 

We are our own version of perfection!!! How crazy is that??? We can sit on this vanity and instead of looking, close our eyes and let the magic vanity show us that only we choose what makes us beautiful, what makes us pretty. When we see that then we will feel that confidence, that feeling of being enough because we are who we want to be and not what others want us to be or look like.

 

We FOUND the “Cute-ometer.” We have this magical vanity we MUST bring to Playa because we want everyone to know they ARE CUTE just like it showed us. We want our friends to sit on Rosita's Dream Vanity and let it take them on a trip of beauty discovery. Sit down, accessorize your self, or simply close your eyes and feel your own special and unique BEAUTY.