Why the everyday make-up?

BugglyB

I do think as well op you should ask yourself why you feel the need to preface your opinion with 'not being nasty but'?

SnowyOwl_2

Let's take a break for a saucer of milk everyone...

tea_lover

balletshoes wrote: »

Do you think so? I hope it doesn't come off as judgemental that I don't wear any make-up on a daily basis. I don't have perfect skin, or perfect eyebrows, or perfect lips. I just CBA with it .

Not at all! I don't think wearing or not wearing make up says anything really. I do however think that starting a post wondering why on earth people would bother and stating how great it is not to wear any is a bit judgemental - certainly the way it was written (and subsequent posts from the OP) have come across that way to me.

Jerryjerryjerry

I have experimented by going out with no make up on. I've had the most outrageous remarks, ranging from.... what have you done to yourself? What happened to your face? Are you ill? Why have you not made an effort today? just got out of bed?

There is such a difference between me wearing makeup, and not wearing it. Without it, I look terrible. Really sick. Almost like death. I've also got ackney scars all over my cheeks which I cover with powder. I have had my own mother in law say that I look like a tramp without it. AND my sister says that I look like a witch when I don't wear maike up. I tend now to only wear it when I know I am going to see MIL or sister or other family or work.

When i'm at the shops, i have the freedom of not having to wear it, as I've never had a shop assistant tell me YET that I look ugly for not wearing makeup. They probably just feel sorry for me and think I fell from an ugly tree. Who knows, I will probably get the sympathy vote and get a discount? Having said that, I do tend to get a lot of free foundation samples from the girls in House of Fraser, when I walk in as scar face (ie make up free).

SueC_2

I wear a smattering of make-up every day (unless I'm not leaving the house, in which case normal rules most definitely don't apply). To me it's much the same as brushing my hair - a simple case of making myself look neat and tidy. I'd put ironing my clothes into the same category. None of them are strictly necessary, but all of them help to present a good appearance to the world, and more importantly to make me feel good about myself.

I know someone who claims that, in seven years of marriage, her husband has never seen her without make up on. She applies a full coating before bed, and gets up before him in the morning to re-do it. I have to admit that I find that a bit odd.

Person_one

Jerryjerryjerry wrote: »

There is such a difference between me wearing makeup, and not wearing it. Without it, I look terrible. Really sick. Almost like death. I've also got ackney scars all over my cheeks which I cover with powder. I have had my own mother in law say that I look like a tramp without it. AND my sister says that I look like a witch when I don't wear maike up. I tend now to only wear it when I know I am going to see MIL or sister or other family or work.

I absolutely promise you that you don't look like death without makeup, I'm sorry your family are so horrible to you about your appearance.

purple.sarah

Jerryjerryjerry wrote: »

I have experimented by going out with no make up on. I've had the most outrageous remarks, ranging from.... what have you done to yourself? What happened to your face? Are you ill? Why have you not made an effort today? just got out of bed?

There is such a difference between me wearing makeup, and not wearing it. Without it, I look terrible. Really sick. Almost like death. I've also got ackney scars all over my cheeks which I cover with powder. I have had my own mother in law say that I look like a tramp without it. AND my sister says that I look like a witch when I don't wear maike up. I tend now to only wear it when I know I am going to see MIL or sister or other family or work.

When i'm at the shops, i have the freedom of not having to wear it, as I've never had a shop assistant tell me YET that I look ugly for not wearing makeup. They probably just feel sorry for me and think I fell from an ugly tree. Who knows, I will probably get the sympathy vote and get a discount? Having said that, I do tend to get a lot of free foundation samples from the girls in House of Fraser, when I walk in as scar face (ie make up free).

Ouch! No offence but your MIL and sister sound like the witches to me!

Tish_P

It's a really emotive subject becauseof all the sexist stereotypes around it - from "if you wear make-up you are vapid and superficial" via "if you don't you are lazy and conceited and look really ugly and unprofessional" all the way to the fact that men don't generally have either the freedom to pop on some concealer and lip gloss to make themselves look a bit prettier after a bad night's sleep, or the obligation to look pretty in the first place.

I'm an occasional make-upper and very inept with the stuff - maybe wear a bit of it twice a week or so, more often if I'm speaking to a room full of people as I think it helps to highlight your features if you want to hold people's attention.

One of my favourite bloggers writes interestingly about make-up here:
http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2012/04/27/fashion-friday-makeup-and-feeling-like-myself/

freyasmum

My job requires me to look perfectly groomed at all times - there is no room for straggly eyebrows, dry, ruddy cheeks and chipped nails here.

My daily routine is cleanse, tone and moisturise. Then eyebrow pencil, concealer and lipbalm. My hair is washed and styled daily.

I apply, as needed, a light spray of fake tan to give me a little colour and save me from having to wear foundation/blusher/etc. Perhaps 1-2 times weekly.

I shellac my nails once a fortnight. It takes around 30 minutes and gives me perfectly unchipped, groomed nails - the longest I've personally gone is 4 weeks between changes, but the regrowth was understandably horrendous - until I remove the colour. I quite often have holographic glitters or swarovski crystals embedded into my pedi-shellac. Just because it looks pretty when the light hits it.

Roughly once every 6 or so weeks I perm and tint my eyelashes to save me wearing mascara because, as much as I love how it looks, I've never met one that didn't give me panda eyes within the hour :wall:

As well as being a requirement for my job - along with immaculate, freshly pressed clothes, etc - I feel better about myself when I wear these things. It's like going to the hairdressers - it doesn't matter how you go in, once you've have a bit of pampering, you're floating out the door and feel aaah-may-ZING :j

Nan63

Gosh, I've worn make up since I was a young teenager and I'd feel naked walking out the door without at least a bit of mascara on! It only takes minutes nowadays for me to apply 'my face' and I look and feel all the better for it.

I have worn it for so long now my face looks alien to me without it!

I couldn't care less if others have their slap on or not, each to their own.