It has been nearly two months now since I stopped wearing makeup. It didnt start out as a challenge or a statement of some kind or anything, I honestly just didnt care anymore. But now I feel a strange commitment to it. See, I never thought that my bare face was publicly decent. I would have lazy days from time to time, yes, but I never thought that my natural face was presentable or professional or heaven forbid, pretty. Whenever I would wipe off my makeup at night, I would feel anywhere from meh to downright gross. I was extremely jealous of young women with naturally dark eyelashes and eyebrows, clear tan skin, and people who only look tired when they dont get enough sleep. You dont really see women with blonde eyelashes, blonde eyebrows, and 24/7 dark circles on tv or in magazines. Because of these flaws I always felt like I looked so much worse without makeup on then most of my peers. It still makes me mad now, honestly. I would go through all this effort to look okay and they naturally looked like that. I want to be encouraging to any woman expressing herself but its hard for me still to feel good about my face when someone like the woman in a recent buzzfeed article looks exactly the same without makeup on to me because of her natural dark eyelashes and matching eyebrows. So I decided Im not going to wear makeup (except for shows of course) until I feel like my natural face isnt lesser. Ive already started to see my bare face as naturally pretty, sometimes actually beautiful. But until I feel just as beautiful after I wipe off a full face of makeup, Im not doing it again. In fact, I think I may just save it for special occasions. Saves a lot of money. And time. Takes me like 10 min to get ready now. Like, all I need to do is put on pants. Thats all anyone should ever feel like they need. Pants and high self-esteem. *end rant*
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:45:16 +0000
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