Entry: Would You Wear No Makeup?

posted by KLW

Feb 28, 2008 2:14PM

I don't wear any makeup at all most days, and light makeup when I go out. I joke that it's all about managing expectations--if on a daily basis, I wear nothing, then all I need is some mascara, eyeliner, and lipgloss and EVERYONE notices. Coupled with that, though, is that all of my friends and every man I've ever dated has preferred the way I look without makeup. I think the poster who talked about makeup as having an element of fakeness was right, in the sense that your appearance is part of how people learn to relate to you, and if people only know you with makeup on, then they prefer you with makeup on. Whereas I know that the people in my life prefer me when I look just like me.

And to answer a later comment--when my skin and eyes looking tired, it's generally because I AM tired. It tells me that I have to take better care of myself, not that I have to start spending a fortune on makeup. Because in the long run, that will be what keeps you pretty anyway.