Why the everyday make-up?

merlin1

During my mid to late teens i was a model, we were trained how to do our own makeup from everyday wear to catwalk to television. (television and black and white stills - talk about looking like !!!!!s! but you dont (didnt) see it on the camera).

10 years ago i started working in a very male orientated environment, and 4 years ago i worked in aircraft maintenance. neither of which would allow any makeup hold to my face!

i have experienced both sides of the coin, makeup does make me feel better/confident, but i now for the most part go without because i dont feel unconfident without it. but that may change when i start uni as a mature student in september. i might feel the need for a confidence boost then ...

however; during my modelling days if i went without, i got the 'are you feeling ok/you look peaky/ pale / ill/ tired comments.

during my heavy industry jobs, if i put on a bit of mascara and/or eyeliner i got the 'where are you going today/who are you trying to impress/ after a promotion' type remarks.

:rotfl:we cant win ladies! i have now come to the conclusion that as long as we a happy 'in the skin we are in' wether that be made up or not then that is all that matters. reasons dont come into it.

i will however say that need sometimes does come into it, i might well be looking for a good cover up foundation very soon. i would like to cover very deep, heavy, dark purple bruises. but until i get the urge to get me legs out it doesnt matter!

be who you want to be. lifes too short to worry about what others think imho.

anyway on a lighter note - do you have foundations for winter and summer? or a one does all? i tan very easily but go very pale in the winter.

merlin x

ETA good grief, i thought this forum had an auto spell check and grammar thing? looks like it doesnt, please excuse my lack of capitals, punctuation and spelling.... lazy bird.

shays_mum

Don't wear a thing apart from face cream/translucent powder/lipgloss unless its a special occasions. With my hands at the mo, chance would be a good thing to wear anymore!

onlyroz

I also have been to a wedding without wearing make-up and I don't recall anybody having a problem with it.

And just - wow - to the person who vomited at the sight of a woman with hairy armpits. You wouldn't have liked my PhD supervisor then.

I shave my legs etc when I can be bothered, and I would do it in particular if I was on the beach, by the pool etc - again because of social conditioning. However, I didn't bat an eyelid when my German friend turned up to my wedding with hairy legs and no make-up.

MrsE_2

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Ok I'm intrigued as I've never been to a wedding wearing make-up. Why would you find it odd?

I used the term wedding, but really I meant anywhere where its the norm for everyone (even those that don't normally) to glam up.

MrsE_2

Tina20 wrote: »

Will just answer everyone at once:

I said makeup enslaves SOME women. Was about to put a disclaimer on the original post but thought people would read it properly.
I hate the way it enslaves some women, and the effect it has on their self esteem.

The effect it has on my self esteem, it gives me a self assurred feeling of knowing I look groomed & my best:)

I feel a bit sorry for men, they can't use it:rotfl:

Person_one

MrsE wrote: »

I used the term wedding, but really I meant anywhere where its the norm for everyone (even those that don't normally) to glam up.

Its definitely an expectation.

I have a friend who I knew for five years without seeing her wear a drop of makeup, who has short cropped hair and lives in jeans, boots and hoodies, but she still wore a bit of makeup for her civil partnership ceremony.

lostinrates

Marketing might be behind make up, but not the emotion or reasoning behind it. People have decorated themselves in ways their cultures have found desirable for ever. Makeup does not cause 'permanent damage, unlike many conformities to this sort of emotion or behaviour.

ac085

Person_one wrote: »

Its definitely an expectation.

I have a friend who I knew for five years without seeing her wear a drop of makeup, who has short cropped hair and lives in jeans, boots and hoodies, but she still wore a bit of makeup for her civil partnership ceremony.

I understand wearing some for your own wedding but I don't think it is essential as a guest.
I will wear make up when I remember that I own some and where I last put it. I have been to a wedding as a guest without any make up and with. There was no difference to how people acted towards me.

Bogof_Babe

As a parallel illustration, are those of us who go out every Spring and buy bedding plants for our gardens, simply being duped by the marketing people at B&Q, or whichever garden centre we favour? It couldn't be just that we like our flowerbeds to look pretty? Bare earth (or weeds) are completely "natural", but we are "gullible enough" to prefer a little colour instead.

raven83

I have used make up since I was young, back then I use to use it to hide behind it was my shield because I didn't want people to see the "real me", shame really because I really didn't need it back then. Now I am coming up to 30 I still wear it, I've toned it down a lot, though sometimes I do do the whole big make up thing cause' I can, but now I wear it more to enhance my features and because it makes me feel bit more confident. I have no qualms in popping to the shop without on, though if I was going out for the day I would feel "naked" without it tbh. I am quite envious of people that don't wear it, I've spent a fortune on it over the years but it's the time too it takes to apply it, saying that I am a sucker for the lastest product out and love buying new things to experiment with, my girls also like it too:mad:, can't say I am too impressed though when they get their hands on it and make a mess of it!!! And as thet get older it will get worse!:rotfl: