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I'm starting to prefer my face without make up.

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GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 19/05/2020 08:09

This feels very weird to me - I've worn make up since I was 13, am early 40s now and am very rarely seen without it. I am pale, with weirdly light eyebrows and lashes considering I have dark hair, and always that I just looked a bit ill and undefined without it.

Other than a lot of black eyeliner in my late teens and early 20s, I've never worn a lot - typically I fill in my brows, use a light foundation or tinted moisturiser, some mascara and blusher. But since lock down I have rarely bothered - mainly because I find taking it off at the end of the day a chore.

However, I'm an actor, and have had to wear it a few times for play readings/recordings over Zoom, or self-tapes for auditions - and I keep getting distracted by how much I dislike how it looks! Mascara makes my lashes look too long and artificial and my eyes too big (they are big anyway - an agent warned me that they can make me look either "scared or scary" on camera!); blusher makes me look like a doll - I just don't like how fake it all looks. About the only thing I want to keep doing is filling in my virtually non-existent brows (I over-plucked in the 90s Confused). I've tried tinting them but it made bugger all difference.

No idea if this a permanent change for me - I guess it can't be, I have to wear make up for work. I've read on here a lot that as we age we need to change how we use make up, and had assumed that didn't apply to me as I don't wear that much of it, but maybe that's the problem? Suppose when this is all over I can go for a makeover somewhere and see how that works out.

Has lockdown affected anyone else like that?

OP posts:
JMAngel1 · 20/05/2020 16:56

Which lip stain do you use Girlswithflowers?

I found DIM from watching Eric Berg videos on YT - diagnosed myself as oestrogen dominant (very common peri-menopause especially) and started taking DIM. life changing.

BubblyWater · 20/05/2020 23:29

JMAngel1 you've inspired me - I've ordered the DIM supplements and am going dairy free and low sugar as soon as I've eaten every last bit of chocolate in the house. Smile

Do you use honey as a sugar substitute?

JMAngel1 · 21/05/2020 18:40

Yes I sometimes use honey or agave syrup - mostly I add dates to any baking for natural sweetness. Good luck with it all.

kingkuta · 21/05/2020 20:29

Its strange. I usually always go out with a full face of make up but during lockdown haven't bothered and I've come to prefer it. I put foundation on for the first time in ages the other day and it just seemed to dull my skin. Will definitely wear less make up day to day after this.

I'm really interested in DIM as I've only recently done some reading re oestrogen dominance and think this is definitely something that affects me.
@JMAngel1 do you mind me asking which supplements you use and how you feel they have benefited you?

JMAngel1 · 21/05/2020 20:38

I use DIM by Smoky Mountain After 3 weeks of taking it, my acne disappeared and hasn't come back. I take 1 capsule every day. I had cystic acne on my jaw and chin and nose and jt was so bad, I was on roaccutane 3 x plus loads of antibiotics and dianette and spironolactone over decades.

TileFloors · 21/05/2020 20:42

I’ve always worn a bit of make up. In recent years it’s been BB cream, powder, eye shadow and mascara. I’ve only worn it once since lockdown and that was for a recorded and broadcast talk. I too am starting to like how I look without it. Yesterday I had to record another talk and I’ve just realised it didn’t even occur to me to put some on. I think this is permanent now, excellent. Will save me time and money.

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