"You're so pretty you don't need to wear makeup..."

[SapphireSeptember]

(Not a stealth boast, I think I'm about average.)
But anyway, thanks, I think. Although you're making the assumption I use make up to improve my appearance. I don't, I use it because I like putting colourful things on my face. I wear eyeshadow, eyeliner, lipstick and highlighter (I love highlighter, the more sparkly and iridescent the better!) Foundation is too much hassle, although I'll occasionally break out the white face powder for old times sake. I could do with concealer on the dark circles under my eyes, but I quite like the 'vampire who never sleeps' look. Blusher never looks right on me, despite the fact that I own some really pretty ones (I've ended up using them as eyeshadow.) Mascara ends up smuged on my glasses, so I don't bother.
I just find these kind of comments incredibly patronising. It's my face, I'll choose what goes on it, thank you very much. And that could be anything, depending on my mood, from full on Goth to soft pretty pastels. I love and adore make up, and the way wearing it makes me feel. (Happy, confident and more like myself.)

I need to wear make up - well mascara really. As my eye lashes are white and I look like a mole with out it

It sort of reminds me of the phrase "you're so pretty, how are you still single?"
Erm thanks, I mean what??

But I meet so many women who have terribly low self esteem, who are scared to even leave the house without trowelling on layers of slap, that I feel angry at the manufacturers, the advertising industry and the patriarchy for pushing this relentless propaganda that women have to be covered in chemicals

I agree with this poster, I think it’s really sad that a lot of women don’t feel happy in their own skin, we are all born beautiful.

I am happy in my own skin , I'm also happy wearing makeup . It's not mutually exclusive

I am more than happy wearing leggings and a jumper as much as heels and a dress

Sorry but people don't get to decide if I'm happy because they don't like what I'm wearing , just because you don't like makeup why would I have to agree with You?

You do see the irony in your post right?

Magic Mix hmmmm that applies to some makeup, eg foundation to cover blemishes, but not for example the purple lipstick I bought recently. It's quite bright! I bought it cos I love the shade. It's definitely not because I think there is anything wrong with my lips in their natural state. I guess it's like wearing a brightly coloured jumper or something, I just like to express myself through my appearance and be creative.

Yeah I would never say that makeup can't be used simply for fun. But that clearly doesn't go very far in explaining its overall popularity.

I’m average looking, cba with make up and don’t like the way it feels on my skin. I actually don’t own any.

I get this comment all the time. It’s beeathtakingly rude. It’s like telling someone with unexceptional hair “you’ve such lovely hair, you don’t need to get it coloured”.

I have one SIL in particular who says this all the time. She could open a MAC store with her make-up collection.

Gettingbackonmyfeet

You should probably read my post again, because I (and the pp I quoted) am specifically talking about women with low self esteem- What I have a problem with is how society makes a large percentage of women feel they have to wear make up to look acceptable.

If you wear make up purely because you want to then good for you, although if you are happy in your own skin then why do you need the make up? And why are you so defensive about it?

Yes fair point I hold my hands up there I did misread it and I got it wrong

The end of your post is frustrating though I absolutely agree no-one should be made to feel valued based on whether their appearance meets certain criteria ever

But you then invalidate my opinion with " but why do you need the makeup" ...thats is exactly why I am defensive about it

I don't need it but I like it its fun , its a hobby and i find some of the make up skills i seen in others as a borderline art form but then there is always someone who twists a nice fun hobby into the assumption you know my innermost personality by stating I rely on something when I have clearly stated it is a choice for me , you do not get to claim enlightenment by denying my choices.

I do get defensive I fully admit because I am very tired of anyone commenting on what other people should do with their bodies

It's never ok to make someone feel they have to have makeup or certain clothes to be valued ever

It's just another side of the same coin

Gettingbackonmyfeet

To be fair reading back my last comment does look goady- it wasn’t meant that way, I think if we were having a rl conversation my tone may have softened the edge !

I like make up as creativity (Especially anything special effects type) and can also definitely appreciate it as an extension of a persons style.

And you are right we shouldn’t judge anyone on what they choose to wear, (but I do think it’s a shame that there are many women out there who don’t like the way they look just as they are!)

I agree with this poster, I think it’s really sad that a lot of women don’t feel happy in their own skin, we are all born beautiful.

But the thing is that we aren't all born beautiful. Some of us really really aren't beautiful.

The thing I find saddest of all, is that we are all so uncertain we have value outside our physical appearance that we constantly have to reassure each other that we are all beautiful.

I'm not beautiful, I'm proper ugly. I still have value as a human being.

I am so very sick of living in a society where the worst thing you can call a girl is ugly and the worst thing you can call a boy is a girl.