As you get ready to say goodbye to 2024 and usher in 2025, you may be considering fortifying yourself and your home with some dependable paraphernelia. The evil eye is of course a top option in this regard. But, how real is the protection it's believed to disseminate? 'Eyes without a face Got no human grace You're eyes without a face'.
Billy Idol may have been singing about disassociation, madness and the pain of a broken relationship, but these lines in essence also capture the incessant gaze, be it indifferent, benevolent or malevolent that we all live our lives embalmed in. "Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul", said John Dryden. Now for those who don't really believe in the science of energies, you may believe jealousy just rots one from the inside.
But even a mere tap into the world of spirituality, meditation and crystal work will leave you with a deep knowing of the very palpable reality of 'nazar'. And 'nazar' happens to be just one manifestation of the sentiment that the whole subtext of the all-pervasive evil eye, is believed to act as a shield against. Now nazar may be desi, but envy as a sentiment is timeless, and apparently so is the lore of the evil eye.
If you're a non-believer, to you it may be just the focus of a kitschy earring or pendant, a quirky linen dress, or some basic mules (here's looking at you Gigi Hadid). A post shared by Joolz by Martha Calvo (@marthacalvo) And even in that, the pervasiveness of the cobalt blue, ever-awake eye cannot quite be ca.