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My mother was a model and taught me how to wear makeup - and to make it look natural, like enhancements. MY DH is pastel-color-blind, and most women - especially those on TV and in movies - to him look as though they are wearing clown makeup; garish and clotted and overdone. Yet he didn't even suspect that I wore makeup until after we were married and he saw me putting it on.
I used to wear makeup in my very public life; I varied between Clinique and Merle Norman. When I developed lupus lesions, I couldn't wear any at all; it inflamed the lesions. So now I have to go totally without. I actually had one insensitive (and heavily-made-up) supervisor spend 20 minutes telling me how I "needed" to wear makeup for my job. Fortunately, we moved to a farm and the horses and cows care more about what's in my feed bucket than on my face...
WHAT? "Oh sorry I have this LUPUS and can't wear makeup." Isnt a good enough excuse?!?! I would of kicked her in her deadbrained head!
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I think some people really have a hard time finding the right colors. I love makeup so I don't mind making custom blends. But I could see how that would be annoying for someone who didn't want to deal with it. The wrong colors DO look like a mask.
One of those makeup things that never looks quite right is when people highlight the inner corner of the eye. Naturally that highlight is there from clear fresh skin that is as oily as it should be. It just looks to flat with most products.
I think that makeup is just like art paints. Cheap paints look like crap but thats what most people experiment with and buy. Not many people have time or money to play with 90$ foundations etc.
I also think its the type of personal preference. My brother thinks I look better with makeup. But he dates girly girls. The fiance likes me naked faced or mineral because he likes my skin. I like it both ways as long as I don't look tired. LOL
I do see some people out where I just want to attack them with a makeup wipe and fix their face. I do not like those masks at all. Teens and early 20's seem to be the worst. And there is always that random grandma you see that really packs it on. But at least they can give the excuse of failing eyesight!
The problem is that some women think they look "natural" and that they have enhanced their features, when all they have done is plastered on too, too, much.
"If we could only see ourselves as others see us" is an old saying. But when it comes to how much makeup is too much, it still has a lot of truth.
To me, make-up is a mask. It covers up natural beauty. It is dictated by society that makes insecure women think they are not real women without it.
Weird, everything that CMP said...
You're assuming that all women are naturally beautiful. You're probably assuming that, because you're used to seeing the ones who are -not- naturally beautiful, making themselves -appear- to be naturally beautiful with makeup.
As I said in another thread not long ago, about the exact same thing:
I don't -have- eyebrows. My eyelashes are extremely sparse. I have splotchy skin with scars from a botched enzyme peel years ago. I also have discolored skin under my eyes that makes me look like I'm exhausted. If I don't wear makeup, I look like a mutant and people -do- stare, and ask me if I'm sick, and strangers keep their distance because they don't want to "catch" whatever it is that I "have" (which is uneven skin coloring, a couple of scars, and no eyebrows and no noticeable eyelashes).
And so I wear eye liner, eyebrow pencil, and usually a dusting of facial powder at the very least, if I'm leaving the privacy of my home and yard. It has nothing to do with self esteem. I'm happy in my skin. I make it presentable because having to explain to people that I'm not overtired, I'm not sick, and I'm feeling fine, every day, is inconvenient.
^^ yeah! I love my nearly clear skin and my eyes, but I have dark circles and a few small pimples. And I use eyeliner to define my lash line because without it, people think I'm 12!!
I would understand if it looked trashy and was too heavy, but when it looks natural, it should not be thought of as a mask but rather an enhancer on your natural features?
Ah, I see.
I really think its no ones business, its between a woman and her mirror.
There have been plenty of threads on here about men not liking makeup on women, in every instance I can think of, those men were "off".
What exactly does "OFF" mean? Crazy or Oblivious???
Anyway, I have nothing against make-up, but it is a mask nonetheless.
You're assuming that all women are naturally beautiful. You're probably assuming that, because you're used to seeing the ones who are -not- naturally beautiful, making themselves -appear- to be naturally beautiful with makeup.
As I said in another thread not long ago, about the exact same thing:
I don't -have- eyebrows. My eyelashes are extremely sparse. I have splotchy skin with scars from a botched enzyme peel years ago. I also have discolored skin under my eyes that makes me look like I'm exhausted. If I don't wear makeup, I look like a mutant and people -do- stare, and ask me if I'm sick, and strangers keep their distance because they don't want to "catch" whatever it is that I "have" (which is uneven skin coloring, a couple of scars, and no eyebrows and no noticeable eyelashes).
And so I wear eye liner, eyebrow pencil, and usually a dusting of facial powder at the very least, if I'm leaving the privacy of my home and yard. It has nothing to do with self esteem. I'm happy in my skin. I make it presentable because having to explain to people that I'm not overtired, I'm not sick, and I'm feeling fine, every day, is inconvenient.
I don't wear makeup anymore because I work in a clean room environment. After getting a job where I am literally not allowed to wear makeup, I just kind of stopped wearing it when I'm off as well.
... Unless I feel like wearing makeup. I don't need makeup. I feel fine without it. But if I want to look a certain way, then I'll put some eyeliner on my top lid and some concealer if my lids look too dark.
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What exactly does "OFF" mean? Crazy or Oblivious???
