How do you feel about women that's don't wear Make-up ?

[flutterby1]

Just wondering what your true JUDGY thoughts are? I don't wear makeup often I'm in mid forties. How am I perceived? Lazy? Frumpy? Not caring? Boring? Can't be bothered to make an effort for others ? Or confident ? Perceived as being ' pretty enough' ?

If it means taking your eyeliner past the corner of your eye I probably would think “ woah, she’s gone to town with it.” But nothing more than that. It wouldn’t make me think I didn’t expect you like you.

I never wear makeup and wonder how people find the time to put makeup on every day.

I wouldn't see anyone not wearing makeup and think "ooh, how brave/confident she is". I would only really notice whether someone was wearing makeup rather than not wearing it. And even then I'd only notice it if they had smudged their makeup or if their makeup was caked on or obviously unnatural/wrong colour for their skin.

I am actually shocked by how many posters on this thread are saying they don't wear make-up!

I'm in my early 60s and I have always worn light make-up for work. I just look better, that's all. Since Covid and WFH, I don't wear it every day and I don't think it's that obvious on Teams calls - however, I always wear it if I have to go to a meeting, and I always wear it going out at night.

My DDs 26 and 24 are very skilled at doing their makeup and use products I've never even heard of!

I'm not seeing vast swathes of the local female population make-up free?!

I'm 60 and I don't wear make up, haven't ever really bothered with it since I left college when I was 19. I couldn't care less what other people think,despite certain people's attempts to try and 'convert' me.

I’m nearly 34, haven’t put make up on since my eldest was born 7 years ago. Can’t be bothered and have no time - especially now I’ve got two of them.

If they do, they're twats.
I very very rarely wear make up and if I noticed someone with a full face on I can't imagine I'd give a shit.

Tbh I have always assumed most people are like me - unable to muster up even a tiny sparrow's fart what other people do with their faces.

Don't worry about it, I'm sure nobody's giving it a thought.

I think it depends entirely on their wider presentation. A well put-together outfit with styled hair and no makeup? Fabulous.
Joggers and 3-day unwashed hair with some mascara slapped on? Considerably less fabulous (but far more relatable )

Maybe they don't think they look 'better' with makeup. I often feel the same way about people who have it plastered on, if I'm honest I think that often looks really common and essex girl. However, I realise that they put on makeup to please themselves, not me. It would be nice if the same courtesy were extended the other way.

In my case, you simply can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear. I can look like an ugly woman or I can look like an ugly woman wearing make up. 🤷 I don't see the point.

I don't wear make up. I sometimes wish I did, and dressed up all fancy. Bottom line though, I can't be arsed.

honest view is that there are a vanishingly small number of people who wouldn't look better with a little make up - so I don't know why people choose not to look the best they can.

I guess for me it's that I don't need to look better, I can just be as I am, my face is find how it is.

I don't brush my hair either, it's short so I don't think I need to. I do wash though And I have professional business meetings all day. I don't think they judge me.

I don't notice but I almost never wear makeup myself. Im in my late 50s but I'm still confident in my looks. I like how I look. I've never worn make up but I wear jewelry and I like to wear clothes that look good on me.

I notice some make up like big eye-brows or huge eyelashes but not in a negative or positive way.

Yes. I think a lot of men my age look rough as fuck. Then I think: how were we in the same year in school, yet you look ancient? Or: how the fuck did I fancy you when I was 16?

Fair enough. So in the absence of makeup women look pale and washed out while the men look rough as fuck?

That's a fair observation, though my question was not whether men looked good without makeup, just whether they looked pale and washed out, which I am not sure they do. As a PP said, perhaps the difference in skin texture makes a difference.

I don't really notice when someone has no makeup, but I do notice when someone is overly made up, big fake nails, loads of fake tan, weird eyebrows, massive hair, massive lips, as no-one I see regularly in my life looks like that.

I wore it years ago for nights out, never during the day. Then I got a terrible skin reaction, not necessarily due to the make up, but I had to avoid all chemicals. Haven't bothered since really.

I don't really notice what people look like unless there is something that really stands out to me. Like a face tattoo or bunny ears. Even then I don't feel anything. It's just an observation. I still wear make-up in my 40s. My style hasn't changed.

I experimented with make-up in my teens, but never really took to it and haven’t used it since my early 20s. Decades ago!

I notice if people are heavily made up, but I don’t think less or more of them either way.

I've worn make up rarely throughout my life. I'm now 64 and the last time I wore any was on my wedding day, 34 years ago, and it was very minimal. I've never heard anyone comment.

I'm trying to do the same. It really is liberating!

I don't notice really. Some wear it, some don't, they just look like themselves

I don't go out without using eyebrow pencil, mascara and a small amount of lip colour these days as I look too washed out/rough without them but no one at all on the school run wears full makeup or to the park in our village.

I've never worn make up of any kind in my life, so I'm hardly in a position to judge others who do or don't.
My now adult daughters have never worn it either.

Men? Yes, men need a thicker foundation usually. The men I knew who wore makeup when I was a teen tended to stick to eyeliner.