To celebrate NOT wearing makeup

[Awomansworkisneverdone]

All I see online is makeup tutorials and how to blend and contour Aibu to want to see more natural looking people? Shouldn’t we promote that also especially to our younger generation of girls ? I know I want to for my daughters.
I have been wearing makeup since I was 13 years old! And it became a part of my life every morning and apart of my normal daily routine. I felt like I had to wear foundation to cover my face (from what I don’t know) I felt like it was a comfort and never went one day without it!! I wouldn’t leave the house without it or even do the school run! That’s how insecure it made me..
but now for the last 12 days I have wore no foundation no coverage of any kind and I feel amazing ! After years and years of blocking the sun from my face feeling the skin on my face get natural sunlight feels lovely. After years of blocking my skin my skin has become pale and aged but with a little sun ☀️ it will become more natural... I love my makeup and will always wear it on special occasions like a night out etc but il no longer let it control me and my insecurities I will make the choice to wear as much or as little as I want 😊 and not feel that need to have to ! To some it may seem ridiculous but after 16 years to me it’s a little victory ❤️

I agree
Saying that though i attempted it few years ago and I met up with my mate and she took one look at me and asked if I was “ok”
I was just wearing no makeup ha ha she thought I was unwell.
That’s how normal it was for me so I went straight home and put all my makeup on :(

Thankyou so much I’m definitely getting there

I have a question for you OP.

If in rl you told someone that you don't wear make-up, what response would you expect from them?

A few people have revealed this enthralling snippet of information to me over the years and each time I have had no idea what to say.

Congratulations?
Well done?
You're so controversial?
You're beautiful without it?

You look like Darryl Hannah in Splash!

I don't wear make up unless on a night out. Mostly because I just can't be arsed. Makes my excema on face worse anyway. I often have a red patch on my cheek and blotchy skin. I just don't care enough to cover it.

Meh.

I love make up and wont stop wearing it until im in my grave...takes me less than 5 mins to apply...

Meh, when you're in your 20s you don't need makeup. My DD is 28 and never wears it (and looks about 18). I like makeup. I don't look horrendous without it but I just like it.

*eczema

I expect no response because I wouldn’t walk around saying I don’t wear it. It’s more a personal journey for myself although my closest mates notice instantly ha ha as it’s been 16 years!!
It’s not a make up bashing thread or online post it’s just not a make up tutorial it’s a celebration of the natural face however you view your face to be... it’s about the choice and freedom.its a step away from the magazines the filters on Snapchat the contouring step by step guide that shows us how to be “ beautiful” it’s about being confident without it

Good for you, but why post a thread about it with a picture?

Is this a real AIBU or are you just looking for compliments?

Because there are hundreds if not thousands of makeup related online posts.videos.threads. Websites
So I thought I’m doing one! Just the one to normalise it.
And no I don’t want or need compliments I want women to come onto the thread and share their views and even photos if they wanted.

If you don’t like the tutorials or sites, then how about - and I get that this is a bit out there - not visiting them?

You are choosing not to wear make.fine but it’s not noteworthy or requiring a congratulations
Just as a woman wearing make up is also not not noteworthy or requiring a congratulations
Choosing not to wear make up is not the worthier choice,it’s simply preference

I have never worn makeup as a regular thing. Even at university 40 years ago, I couldn't be arsed and wondered at women who wouldn't go outside without it.

I do spend a fortune on skincare though. Looking after my skin, hair, nails, teeth and body is more important to me than face painting. Since menopause, my lifelong acne has got worse; I don't use anything to cover it though. Sometimes I get my eyelashes dyed and I'm considering my eyebrows as the grey comes through.

I do love playing with makeup when I go out though, who am I going to be tonight etc. It's playing with a persona, not a daily necessity. It's never put men off; first time the ex saw me with makeup was months into our relationship when we were going to a wedding. Perhaps the bare faced look feels more natural to me after years of military and police standards - I remember walking past some of the female cops at a party, not having recognised them with fancy hair and faces! 😂

I hate things like this. Just do you.

Let other women wear or not wear make up. It’s tjeir choice.

I couldn't be arsed and wondered at women who wouldn't go outside without it.

Well when you constantly get nasty comments said to you as a teenager working in a shop (both by colleagues and the public) it tends to chip away at your confidence. HTH.

I like applying make up,I like looking groomed and I can apply it in 5min

I dont know i am torn. On the one hand i hate the "natural bare face" thats seen on celebs when in fact they are caked in natural look make up. On the other hand make up with spf is better for your skinthan bare face in the sun. Even if it looks better short term.

But yes i hate the fact society deems women unattractive and ill looking without. I dont leave the house as i have very bad skin and no colouring in my lips. Purple eyelids and round my eyes so i look like a corpse and no eyebrows. I need make up to look alive and not the animated dead.

I've never worn make up. Once at uni a friend "did my make up" for me for a graduation ball, and I felt fake and washed it off. I didn't wear makeup to my own wedding, nor did I get my hair done (straightened it myself, did wear a long dress, just hate the whole hair and makeup thing).

The saddest thing is people saying that they look I'll without make up. Men never say that! I assume comments from acquaintances are because they are so used to seeing the person with full make up.

There is nothing at all wrong with wearing make up if you want to, Im happy for my DD to experiment with make up and she has phases of doing so, but there is something very wrong with feeling you have to wear it, and I'd feel a failure as a mother if she thought that.

I'm not posting a photo though Awoman - pretty sure nobody will.

yadnbu!

Ill not I'll, damn autocorrect

Its kind of like many drugs...

You start off wearing make up for fun, then you wear it because you get used to it, then before you know it you are trapped in 'looking ill' if you don't wear it.

There is a price to pay if you tell yourself each and every day that you don't look good enough to be seen in public without alteration.

I won't be telling myself that - and I won't let my daughter see me telling myself that, or telling her that.

Lovely pic, stunning hair and nice summery clothes but sadly all I can think is how much lovely you'd look with make up! Maybe that's your point but I don't see make up as a bad thing. It just enhances what you've got.

Have never worn make-up, have no idea what/how to do it and the three or four times I have worn it, its only been for other people. Never ever foundation. Im mid 40s and am told I look considerably younger than I am, maybe its lack of make up...maybe its good genes...maybe its blind luck. My girls both wear make-up and learnt from youtube.

Or alternatively it’s simply ones habit and routine that is pleasurable & enjoyable
I wear make up because I like it. I love getting a new product, and it makes me feel good
I’m not compelled by society or addicted. I have choice.i chose make up
Sali Hughes is particularly good on this topic, how women grooming and self care Is demonised as an activity undertaken by women manipulated by society.