I was told the first line repeatedly as a teenager, and stopped wearing makeup a few years later as a result. Then I’d hear intermittent comments about how I look tired because I have thin skin around my eyes. I look tired no matter what I do. But whatever because I save a bunch of time every morning and evening, not to mention money. Holy hell is makeup expensive!
Now as an adult nearing middle age who stopped even using hair dye, I’m starting to hear that I’d be prettier if I did my makeup/hair better… and I just go “yeah, probably.” And shrug. I’ve accepted there’s no winning, someone will always comment, so I just do what I like. Not my problem if that makes you feel insecure enough to try to change my behavior.
Saw this text on a workplace toilet about what women see/think when they look in the mirror, over the course of a lifetime.
The young ones see a princess, then Cinderella, etc. At some point in the middle ages it’s “at least I’m clean”, and the last one is “I put on my purple beret and don’t give a fuck”. Can’t wait to get to that stage.
Makeup is another method to part fools and their money. Companies are using the insecurities of women around their appearance to extract large amounts of money out of them. Same as for fashion.
Some people express themselves via makeup and fashion and don’t have any insecurities about it.
There is absurdely expensive stuff for extrating money too tho. I think you are both right here
Agreed, life typically isn’t black and white
I think a big reason for such reaction is that woman who regularly, or near always wear makeup, suddenly look different if they stop doing so. Giving the impression they look more tired/paler/sickly then usual.
They would get this less if people are inversly used to them just being natural. And rather be suprised when do decide to do make up and give a complilent for it.
Use makeup sparingly, it is not necessary and the effects of it are greater when you don’t look like that everyday. Natural is beauty in itself too.
Yeah, I do the opposite, wear bb cream on face and concealer under my eyes mostly daily. Event’s get color.
When the only time you see someone without makeup is when they are too sick/tired to apply it, that conditions you to think them not wearing makeup means they are sick/tired.
Not true, there are some women who don’t wear makeup, my wife is one. Only on very special occasions, day to day life is no makeup.
So “When the only time you see someone without makeup is when they are too sick/tired to apply it” doesn’t apply to your wife. That doesn’t mean the statement is not true.
Meh. There’s good makeup and bad makeup.
That being said, if you have an opinion on someone else’s makeup, keep it to yourself.
unless they are Björk
Space Opera
And how do you keep that opinion to yourself, when a woman asks for your opinion on her makeup, but uses this analogy to pretend that it’s physically impossible for you and any other man to simply dislike make-up?
“Some tired”?
“Some tired”?
It’s Southern or Hillbilly slang.
If you want to read more about it do searches for: “use of the word “some” as an intensifier”https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/321316/can-i-use-some-as-a-synonym-of-very
This is
very, veryquite similar to the British use of “quite” to mean “extremely”.Did you see him shit his pants while he was exercising? Quite disconcerting, I must say.
Fun fact: that has a name! It’s called Litotes
The use of litotes is common in English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Dutch, Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Ukrainian, Polish, Chinese, French, Czech and Slovak, and is prevalent in some other languages and dialects. It is a feature of Old English poetry and of the Icelandic sagas and is a means of much stoical restraint.
So not ALL languages? TIL
Ahhh, ok. Makes sense when I read it in that accent.
I’ve heard this a lot on the east coast of Canada as well.
I’m convinced that make up has chemicals in them that deteriorate the skin more quickly when used. IMO, make up should be worn only on occasion, not daily. If it were worn only on occasion, the wow effect would be larger and the skin would recover to age more naturally.
I used foundation as sunscreen for years and it did, as far as I can tell, a pretty good job of it. I was allergic to the chemical ones available here. The mineral ones were like clown paint. Eventually the mineral sunscreens got better, that’s what I use now. But no I don’t think “makeup” generally ages your skin. Anything that puts a layer between your skin and the sun and car exhaust, probably more helpful than harmful.
Anything that puts a layer between your skin and the sun and car exhaust, probably more helpful than harmful.
That definitely isn’t true. Acid puts a layer between you and the sun and isn’t good for your skin. There are creams that dry your skin leading to cracks and death of certain healthy bacteria on your skin. The cracks can expose your body to fungi and dangerous bacteria. Things like mixing suncream and anti-mosquito spray can lead to serious rashes and skin irritation. Creams can also have a low SPF and damaging effects to the skin, giving you a false sense of security while destroying your skin even more.
Well yes, of course putting motor oil or something completely unrelated to cosmetics is not going to be safe. I don’t use mosquito repellent on skin.
But makeup, foundation, does put a physical block between skin and sun, like a mineral sunscreen does. I was responding to the claim that it ages your skin. Most of them are emollient and protective, not drying and damaging.
I’ve been a lot more interventive than my husband with skincare, he’s mostly just kept his clean and sunscreen for outside. I do night cream of some sort since I was 25, now it’s , tretinoin at night, estrogen cream in the morning, mineral sunscreen every day. Yes a little foundation for work. Body lotion after shower. My skin looks so much healthier than his, and no way is it genetic, my mom had bad skin, delicate and quick to age. I truly don’t think “natural aging” is the best way to handle skincare. I do agree that you can’t put something on your skin and think it does not affect the rest of you, though.
That’s how I do it. I love some makeup styles, but I like it bold and if I’m not going bold I may as well just not wear any
