If you notice I made my last post at 2:30 A.M. and went to sleep thinking I may have made a mistake and was going to catch hell, today.
Green Bean’s response was so unlike what I expected that I want to make one last statement and then forever refrain from posting here again.
[ul]I hope that Green Bean lands the job of her dreams whether or not she is wearing make-up[/ul]
A great perk of living in the Pacific Northwest is that a much smaller proportion of women wear makeup regularly. Maybe it’s just to rainy. Whatever the reason, it’s great. I think makeup is bizarre and that people look catroonish when wearing it.
cartoonish
I don’t wear makeup, and I don’t ever intend to (except on Halloween, of course). Nobody seems to care except my family (they wish I was a more “normal” 19-year-old). Whenever I do wear makeup, it takes me so long to put it on and take it off that I wonder how people who wear it every day put up with it. I’m saving myself time, money, and energy, and frankly I don’t care what people think.
I’ve only read the OP, because that’s all I wish to respond to.
My wife doesn’t wear makeup at all, except on very special occasions, such as a wedding or something. But no makeup for everyday. She is a mother and a schoolteacher. She has little enough time in the mornings to stop and put makeup on, and she may have children in her class with allergies or sensitivities to makeup and/or perfume (which she also doesn’t wear).
I don’t mind if a woman doesn’t wear makeup. I also don’t mind if she does wear makeup, if it’s skillfully applied. The only problem I have with a woman in makeup is if it looks as if it’s been applied with a bricklayer’s trowel, or if it creates an unnatural look, rather than highlighting the natural look.
I think I’m in the minority here as well. I wear makeup every day. Not a ton, but some. I have a friend who looks positively weird when she wears make-up; me, I feel as though I am incomplete without at least lipstick and blush. As far as the people saying they don’t wear it – geesum crow, more power to you. I would love to feel complete (or even comfortable) without it. If I were a guy, the most beautiful woman to me would be someone who didn’t feel the need to bother with make-up. (I realize that gets into some self-confidence issues).