to wonder why some women don't wear make-up

[MeganCherry]

I'm sure I will get flamed for this but -

I don't mean trowel it on every morning, 3 lots of foundations, eyeshadow, eyeliner etc.

I have quite good skin, so on a usual day I'll wear - mascara and a lipstick/glass. On a bad day I'll probably wear concealer too.

I think make up is about enhancing your features and making the best of them. Me after a sleepless night I look like a zombie, add some concealer and I look like a human being again.

I like to wear make up for me and not to impress my husband or friends or strangers. I just know that I look better when I'm wearing it.

Because in a time of austerity, the money spent on make up can't be justified for many.

And because I look fan-fucking-tastic without it. Why mess with nature?

Make -up protects the skin
More bollocks.

Skin that is exposed to sun and wind, or is unusually dry, can benefit from a cheap moisturiser, that should be invisible once applied.

those that wear it, normally have good skin.
well that's true at least, but those who don't use it normally have good skin too.

I've seen quite a few men wearing makeup lately. It's usually good-looking men, sporting foundation tinted moisturiser and subtle eye liner. This was big in the late '70s - early '80s so maybe my eye was trained then & most people don't notice it!

I welcome the ability for men to do a bit of appearance-altering by choice, but hope it stays in the realm of choice.

Did you know that nanoparticles can easily cross through human tissue, migrating to other parts of the body like the lungs and brain? Your mineral makeup may be made of them.

• I wear make up everyday and I love changing the way. I wear varying amounts depending on what I'm doing or where I'm going. I feel groomed and polished.

I didn't wear make up in my teens when all my friends did. I wore it from twenties onwards. I probably needed less when I was I was younger and my skin was more evenly toned etc.

Imo I very rarely see a woman bare faced who looks stunning. Make up enhances most faces, just as nice clothes, haircut colour and so on.

Also, I know it sounds harsh but usually the ones who say 'I don't need make up' are the very ones that do!

But, Carmen, why do they need it?

carmen I'd say that you never seeing a woman who looks "stunning" without make-up is more due to your perceptions of "stunning" rather than make-up.

Are you going to be super depressed when you're 80 and you are no longer attractive by media standards? I know that I'd rather live in a society where we weren't so hung up on youth and looks.

"I very rarely see a woman bare faced who looks stunning."

This is to do with your perception of beauty, rather than an objective fact though.

I'm not denying that women with make up look more beautiful to you, but certainly not everyone sees things that way. It's just your social / cultural conditioning, sorry!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, innit

Because im stunning actually I have the type of face that looks less attractive with make up if Im going to a wedding I will wear foundation maybe mascara but my friends have always said natural look suits me. Make up makes me look like cocoa the clown and as I've never been short on offers I assume I do look good without make up.

I very rarely wear it cos I very rarely get to go out with my OH or friends due to life. I work 12 hr shifts so putting makeup on at 5am doesnt really appeal and I would rather have the extra time in bed, DD at 11 doesn't think makeup is the be all and end all of her looks and with everything else I do its my last priority besides i wore enough through my teenage acne years lol

I did say IMO!

I agree about living in a society where we are obsessed with looks.

I like wearing make up to enhance my features add colour to face face, shimmer glitter etc etc! Just as I like colouring hair rather than have grey roots. I guess I don't want to look old, but it isn't just that.

We all see things differently. Yes a teenage girl with fresh young skin lOoks great bare faced. A 50 year old (imo) is more likely to have a more uneven skintone, look tired or even haggard. Not saying she is ugly but make up, nice hair would enhance that.

If I went to a party without a scrap of make up I'd feel rough, although others may see me as a reasonably pretty woman. With make up, I'd be a glamorous one.

Those who don't wear make up, what do you think of women who do, particularly those wear lots??

I hope that all of you who don't wear foundation are wearing sun protection instead.

Brilliant. Ageist as well.

Those who don't wear make up, what do you think of women who do, particularly those wear lots??
I can tell you what my DP has said more than once - "I wonder what's hiding underneath that lot!"

So why is nude 50 year old male skin ok? Are they more likely to look 'tired' or 'haggard'?

Because they don't want to?

I wear it for work because I see it as part of being polished for work,I'll wear it for nights out,socialising,but I don't feel the urge to wear it if my only activity is walking the dog/shopping. I like to let me skin breathe.

I enjoy it,don't wear much though,all quite light formulas,small amounts applied. Takes about 10 minutes out of my day. I don't really care if other women wear it or not. I certainly think some women should learn to apply it properly or not wear it at all though. Orange tide marks around the jaw are hideous.

The last episode of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here always contains shots of young women who have looked perfectly beautiful throughout their stay in the jungle and who suddenly look orange and hideous and drained of personality thanks to getting their hands back on the slap.

Carmen, you ask what we think about women who use lots of make-up. I only like that if it is done punkishly, subversively, in a chirpy fuck-you sort of way. Other sorts of heavy make- up just look like putting on a rather unattractive uniform, to become invisible and fit in with the job description of being a "woman".

'Fresher', 'polished', 'groomed', 'like I care about myself'

So you think men don't care about themselves?

Ah yes. Very good example, Floaty - IACGMOOH.

op feel free to look on my profile there's a picture of me and while im not stunning I don't look bad without make up.

I personally don't like its feel and think its false advertising but if other people want to wear make up thats fine and up to them.

Yes 50 year old men do looked haggard too! Not all, just as not all women do. 50 is just a number I plucked out of the air, could be 35. Or 60.
Men don't have as many options as women though do they? Most men would not wear make up as not socially acceptable I guess.

How many times do you see a well groomed woman- hair make up clothes next to man of the same age who makes no effort. I think as you get older you do have to make more of an effort to look good, where it was easier when you were younger.

All this is what is importnat to me though. I love dressing up and being girly. Not for society or men, but for me. And as when when I'm 80 I hope I willfeel the same.

I don't agree that women look better with it on. Different, yes. Better? That's very subjective.

I don't use make up at all. I don't own any. I don't like it and I can't see any reason to use it. Without it, I don't look terrible/ washed out/ ill/ ugly/ whatever. I just look like me. That's all.

And I do not need to be "enhanced". There's nothing wrong with me just as I am.

But why does it actually matter what we look like when we are just going about our ordinary daily business? Beyond the basics of not wearing (say) a T-shirt with a massively offensive slogan on it, and not actually stinking, when we're plodding round the supermarket, sitting on the bus, or working in a job that doesn't involve contact with clients, what's the big deal with appearance?

I never look made up.

um you do, or you wouldn't wear it. I have never met anyone who thought there make up wasn't totally natural. It was obvious they were wearing make up.

Talking about men looking as haggard as women does not stop your post being ageist.

Nothing to stop anyone looking haggard. Don't pick on older people.