I am a 19-year-old female and I do not like wearing makeup. *gasps* Shocker, right? It seems like makeup tutorials and talk about the newest highlighter seems to be a pretty common ground for college females to talk about. Now, I'm not saying that I don't wear makeup ever, because I do, on occasion. I have just stopped wearing makeup for a multitude of reasons.

I used to think that in order to look put together and polished I needed to wear makeup. I used to force myself to get out of bed an extra 15 minutes early just so I had time to do my makeup. But somewhere along the way of the early wakeup calls and dealing with itchy eyes all day, I realized it wasn't really worth it.

Sure, my face might not look perfectly smooth and my blue eyes might not stand out as much without mascara and eyeliner, but my face and eyes feel much happier. I love being able to rub my eyes and not mess my makeup up, or being able to take a nap mid day and not have to touch up my face when I wake up. Makeup isn't a part of my daily routine anymore and I am perfectly okay with that.

At first, when I started not wearing makeup as often, it was a little weird. I felt different when I looked at myself and thought that I looked not as put together. I felt the need to not dress up as much because I thought I would look weird if I had on a nice sweater and jeans on and no makeup.

Shortly after, however, I realized this was nonsense and that it didn't matter what I was wearing, I could be wearing a prom dress and no makeup and still look fine because to me I don't need makeup to feel beautiful in my own skin. It may take some time to realize it, but its true, you don't need makeup to look good or to "complete" your outfit. You look just fine without it!

So, no, I don't know how to contour my face, or do a perfect winged eyeliner or even put on eyeshadow well, but I'm ok with that. Some girls thoroughly enjoy doing their makeup and that is totally fine and cool -- I'm just not one of those girls. I would rather hit the snooze button 3 more times than wake up to put on a coat of mascara and that's fine, too.

So whether makeup is your thing or not, just know you don't have to wear it every day to look beautiful or "put together." If you want to be able to rub your eyes all day worry free, just for a day even, heck, do it! Life is too short to be unhappy and to feel pressured to do something you don't want to do!

So if you are like me and hate having itchy eyes and simply just dedicating the time to do makeup, skip it for the day! Give yourself a break, I'm sure you won't regret it!