As I put on my makeup this morning, I had a thought and wanted to share it...... Now, Im a makeup LOVER, and adore putting it on. I love being able to play around with it and create different looks, BUT, for some reason, today, I felt as if I were putting on a mask. As I blended my foundation into my skin, covering the red blemishes, I wondered WHY do we COVER our faces like this ????? By the time I am finished applying all my makeup, mascara, brows, blush, lipgloss, concealer ..... there is SUCH a change. ALL of my features have been enhanced, and all imperfections are covered. SO what if my eyelashes are short and stumpy, so what if my eye brows are thin and light, so what if I have pimples and red blemishes ........ THAT is my FACE, why do I feel the need to cover it up and pencil it in ???????? Why am I (and so many others) so scared to show people what we look like without makeup ?! Are they going to think less of us ? Are they going to think we are less pretty, are they going to think we look SCARY, unprofessional ? Maybe ... but why has makeup (covering up our faces and HIDING what we really look like) become the norm...... ESPECIALLY when someone who generally wears makeup finally builds up the courage to leave the house without it, and people are asking her if she is sick, or why she looks so different. BAM. DOWN, goes the confidence, and she goes back to applying makeup ALL the time. SO, next time you see a girl without her usual makeup on, dont say anything. Just think about the COURAGE it took for her to leave the house without covering her face. Think about it. If you are used to wearing a mask (basically) every time you leave the house to hide parts of yourself you dont want others to see, and then you decide you dont want to put on that mask, you want people to see the real you, and then all of a sudden, someone says Man, you look sick. Are you okay OR WOW, you look different without makeup - that girl is going to RUN back to her house and put that mask back on and likely never take it off because she now thinks that people do not think she looks good just the way she naturally is. NOT to mention the doing of the hair ..... MAN, if I were to go au natural without makeup or doing my hair ..... I would look like a totally different person. Ill admit, I love the way I feel when I wear makeup, BUT I also love the way I feel when I dont wear makeup, I just dont like the way I look as much ... and I think that goes back to the perfect images we see EVERYWHERE in the media ...... BASICALLY, all of this rambling is just my way of getting my thoughts out. I want to hear what you think. WHY do we (OKAY, me .... Im speaking for myself - and hoping others feel the same) feel the need to cover our faces in products to feel pretty and look appealing to other people ?!?!??! I want to get a convo going :) LEAVE your thoughts below. PS - this is my NAKED face. Am I comfortable sharing this, NOPE. BUT now you know what I look like without makeup, there will be no surprises if you ever see me in public wearing my naked face ;)
Posted on: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:57:00 +0000