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.

My dd wears make Up I have nothing against it at all I just think it is a bit to ask why other women dont IYSWIM . I have to do a I dont think so with dd2 though she would go out caked with a foundation line so if you are going to wear it learning to put it on properly is certainly an advatage

ledkr, that's a great thing that you are you doing.

I rarely wear makeup because I can't be arsed to put it on and I CERTAINLY can't be arsed to take it off again.

I shower, I wash my teeth and sometimes I brush my hair. Life is too short to spend time putting on makeup. Whatever ever happened to Feminism .....?

hink 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.

no a human looks like a human. humans aren't born with makeup, do men look like humans with out makeup?

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

no you think you do because society has told you you do.

you're a bit tragic really aren't you

Don't know about any other women, but I remember watching some programme decades ago about the visual cues for youth, sexual arousal and some other odd bits and bobs, and can't un-know it now. Feels a bit odd putting loads of makeup on thinking, "and now I'm imitating a 12 year old... and now I'm pretending to be flushed about..." etc etc.

Oi, don't call the lady names!

I don't wear make up because I find all make up irritating on my face.

I find that most women look better without make up anyway.

Fortunately I live in a country wear it is not expected that I wear make up.

And I also don't wear it because I have better things to spend my money on.

Aw thanks dizzy
picadilly I wear it predominantly because it makes me look and feel better but sometimes if we are going out and I've put some on my dh will look at me and say "you look nice" I like that.
I am far from tragic!
Before you say he should say that anyway he does too even when I don't.
Nothing wrong with feeling nice IMO

I am really happy about all the non make up wearers, makes me feel less alone.

I don't wear it in my daily life because it makes my face itch. I have to wear it for my part time job and even then I take it off as soon as I can.

I actually love collecting eyeshadows and eyeliners though, the colours are so pretty, I just barely use them!

Because as a teenager i had such bad eczema that it was madness to put anything on my face than might exacerbate the (already unsettling) Elephant Man look.

Because haveing grown out of that eczema (though my hands are a different matter) I have no wish to make it flare up again.

Because I didn't learn to apply it in my teens, and my errors as I learned would be so much more marked now I am older.

Because, frankly, I'm not one of those people that people look at very much, and I like it that way.

Society also tells me to be skinny- I'm not. Tells me to wear heels- I don't tells me to stay young- I couldn't give a fig.
I like my eyes to look sparky sometimes and my skiin not show the marks and my lips glossy and not dry. That's ok isn't it?
I also agree that it's fine not to wear it too.

If my male colleagues do not feel the need to enhance their features to feel good about themselves, I don't see why I should have to. We do the same job and make the same contribution to society. If that's good enough for them, it's good enough for me. If the world can cope with their unenhanced features, then it can jolly well cope with mine.

But I'm perfectly happy for my dd to wear makeup if she wants too. As long as she is not wearing it for fear somebody would wonder why she didn't.

Well, there's a good question, cory. If you see a man in full makeup walking down the street, who would think 'coo, look at his beautifully enhanced features' and who would think 'blimey, someone's overdone the panic this morning'?

Why should that not apply to women as well? We are used to seeing women made up now, but surely what you're actually looking at is just as odd as looking at a man doing the same thing?

I don't always bother with it but for me, without it I feel a little like a man who hasnt bothered to shave. Not a crime, but I do feel unkempt. There are times when I'm happy to be that way - but not often.
Some women look great without any makeup but I think even the smallest amount properly applied can improve most women and for me, it makes a statement of 'I made an effort'. Now I'm happy to go to a friend's house for coffee without making that statement but I wouldn't dream of meeting a work client without some form of makeup.

I don't really wear any make up most days.

Masacara every single day? What a faff!

Because, despite not being beautiful, I am good enough.

Because I am a human being, not a decorative item.

Because I get more pleasure from 100 better ways to spend that money.

Because my looks are not what is important about me, and I woukd prefer to be judged on something else.

Because I am not interested in looking 'better', there is nothing actually wrong with normal, aging, female skin.

ere isn't anyone over 15 who doesn't look better with a touch of mascara/lip gloss!

um bollocks to that feminine. think it through,how many men do you meet if only he was wearing eye liner. its a norm in society now, but its not really, the was having freakishly small feet or a long neck is prised in other countries.

to whoever to the piss out of the women daring to call themselves pretty up thread. what is your problem? in a world rife with women with low self esteem and anorexia on the rise, I think its fantastic some women can feel good about themselves. would you equally expect a woman to say she wasn't intelligent, or good at her job?

Are the men doing it?
No!
That's because it's patriarchal bullshit that women only look presentable when covered in slap.
And, if course a multi billion dollar industry....(run by men...)

'Cos I'm lazy. I wear a small amount sometimes, when going out, and I suppose I do look marginally better. But I feel no need to wear it every day.

When I was younger I did a very little bit of acting and modelling work and you wouldn't BELIEVE the amount of make-up trowelled on my early-20s face in order to make me look not really very made-up for the camera. So-o-o-o boring.

The only makeup I wear on anything approaching a regular basis is lip gloss, unless tinted moisturiser counts as well. Sometimes foundation.

I'm 35. I look it. No older, probably no younger. I have no objections whatsoever to looking it.
I am no stunner but I look fine. I am warm, intelligent, friendly and it shines through. That makes me pleasant and engaging to look at.

When I make an effort, I do my hair carefully, put on nice clothes, jewellery and perhaps that tinted moisturiser and lip gloss. It's enough.

How strange that we as women have come to believe we don't look quite as human without makeup. That phrasing in the OP really sent a shiver down my spine, and not in a good way.