Would you go without makeup for even a day?
- Amie Warrenposted 14 years ago
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It's so funny that what you've pared down to is more than I have ever worn all of my life, haha!
I never could stand lipstick or powder--it felt suffocating to me, lol...I know--I'm weird...
Now I have to hunt down mascara if I need it for a special occasion, otherwise I never put anything on my face but soap and water--and it's SO nice, lol.I get up at 5 a.m. every day.... Then I take the kiddo to band practice.... Off to work after that... Then pick kiddo up from school...then to football practice he goes.... Then supper...and some days it's band..and football... I go without makeup ALL the time.....lol Just not enough time in a day.... Ya know...
- EmpressFelicityposted 14 years ago0
- ralwusposted 14 years ago0
i like to get into the wife's stash now and again. I play dress up.
i can never get those thongs on right tho'. hehe @ ralwus ... lols
As for me - yes. Often. You can't improve on the being greenlols to ralwus and frogdropping.
- klarawieckposted 14 years ago0
- Wendi Mposted 14 years ago0
I almost never wear makeup anymore. I don't really see the difference that much. Occasionally for a very fancy night, then only a little bit.
Doesn't anybody on here like make-up? :mad"
I've been wearing make-up since I was 16. About what Amie said she'd pared down to (so it isn't "drag queen" kind of make-up, by any means). I honestly think that wearing a light foundation with a suncreen helped fight of sun damage.
If I'm home I don't wear make-up (unless someone is coming, in which case I may put on a little lipstick or maybe just a little blush (that type of thing) - or else, not. It depends on who's coming.
When I go out I always wear it. Back when I first got divorced and had my life messed up because of it, my thing was that I wasn't going to let it take away that "basic person" I've always been (which is someone who has always worn some make-up and never "dressed like a slob". I don't walk around in "office clothes" or anything like that, but I have wanted to "hang onto" the "me" that didn't want to end up wearing no make-up, slugging around in sweats (or whatever my version of "sweats" would be), etc. I'll be honest. When I was in the midst of the divorce (and the anger directed at me because of it), there were people who probably wished I (as a person) would "disappear". There were people who wanted to see me destroyed. (Not many, but there were a couple.) There was a person or two who would have liked nothing better than for me to be like them (no make-up, no work, sloppy clothes, etc. etc.). My thing was I wasn't about to let those people see me turn into what would have made them happy. (Why did these couple of people want the me I was "destroyed"? Either because they wanted me to pay for leaving a marriage they thought I should leave, or because they had always been just a little on the envious side and kind of delighted on seeing me lose what I had.) So, 19 years later, I'm still me, wearing my same make-up, trying to look my nicest, having nice nails, wearing a nice scent, the whole bit. On those times when money was an issue (I've never spent big money on make-up anyway, but I didn't buy cheapie brands either), I just started using the cheapie brands. If you're careful they can be fine.
Some people can get away without wearing make-up. I'm fair skinned, blue-eyed, and pale. I need that little bit of color to make me look more lively.Lifeallstart, thanks,you may have a point about people getting used to wearing make-up. I feel horrible without. My face doesn't like the air hitting it.
I think, though, it has to do with a person's coloring. My daughter is pale, pale, white-skinned; but she has dark brown eyes. She looks great without make-up. I, on the other hand, am the one who gave my daughter's the Irish-person complexion; and my light eyes just disappear. Make-up can make my eyes look decent. No-make-up makes them invisible. I just like "decent' better. I just feel more awake with a little make-up on.
Amie, I think you may have a point, I live in the North, and there are very few days each year when make-up "falls off" because of the heat and humidity.
Of course, I was raised hearing this from my mother: "Oh, sure. Men are attracted to you when you dress nicely and have make-up on, and then once you get married they start to say, 'Do you have to wear that?'. So, little by little you stop wearing nail polish and stop wearing make-up, and then, next thing you know, they go out and find a woman who wears make-up and dresses up." (To the best of my knowledge, my father didn't have time for that; but I know my mother resented being made to feel like he didn't think a little make-up was attractive, because she said it made her feel nicer to wear it.) I don't blame her either. In pictures of her when she was single and working she looked like she could be in those forties classic movies. I've often wondered if one reason men don't like their girlfriends and wives to wear a little make-up is that thing about not wanting other men looking at them.
(My mother said my father would say, "It doesn't look right on a mother." Maybe my mother brainwashed me. )
My mom never wears makeup, so I never really learned how to apply it, and never really feel the need for it either. I think it's fun to play with, but I only wear it a few times a year. (And at least one of those is Halloween!) I'm sure somebody like relache with professional skills could do something nice, but my random experimentation has never really found a combination of makeup that looks better on my face than my real face does.
I refuse to go out in public without at least mascara and lipstick. And of course my MM cape
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Except when camping -- the one time I blissfully go au naturelle.Got to whack it on it is a habit feel naked without it
- ralwusposted 14 years ago0
I go without makeup all the time.
some girls don't need it. and if that's you on the link you provided in your profile, you are one of them. gorgeous. I enjoyed looking at your blog.
welcome to HP.
Other than some lipstick I hardly wear any makeup..I have not seriously looked into the mirror for some time... used to be so high on make up when I was in my teens.. I wonder what happened.. just grew out of it I guess!
f*** makeup!
(sorry that's the George Carlin in me talking!)
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