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Stop Makeup Shaming

Wearing Makeup is Okay

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Stop Makeup Shaming
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It's 2016 and makeup shaming is STILL happening, why?

Scrolling down Instagram I often notice makeup transformation posts and I also notice that some men feel like it's their job to comment about the difference from the woman before and after the makeup. My thoughts? Makeup is there to enhance you, to make you look and feel better. Makeup wasn't invented to make you look the same. Hence the word, makeup.

If you're a girl and you believe what these dumb guys are saying is true, then you need to stop listening. These comments represent nothing but ignorance. A guy with that mindset isn't decent or the least bit respectful. Men that are gentlemen don't say things like, "I would hate waking up next to that in the morning." If you are with a guy and you wake up early to apply makeup before he wakes up so he won't see your natural face, you're with the wrong man.

Concealers and foundations are there to hide your imperfections, that's what it was made for, that's its purpose. "She looks different without makeup", well we don't spend this much money on makeup to look the same. Products like foundations and concealers make millions of dollars because people buy them to LOOK different.


"Take her swimming on the first date." I don't get why people say this, do they think that we are born with a winged liner? Can't they tell we are wearing makeup? "This is why men have trust issues." Men have trust issues because of something that happened in the past in their life. Relating makeup with trust issues, makes absolutely no sense. Take credit for your own trust issues, instead of pushing the blame onto a woman.

I would also like to point out the amount of people who claim to only like girls who are all natural, but hate seeing pictures of girls without makeup on or people who don't give any attention to women who are actually all natural. News flash, being all natural for a lot of people is having dark circles, wrinkles, acne, discoloration, or super thin/barely there eyebrows and doing nothing to hide those things. And all the power to those women who don't feel the need to cover those things up, but not all of us are that brave. To the girls who don't wear makeup who say it's better to be natural, that's fine. But don't go around acting better than the girl who loves wearing makeup. Personally, I don't wear makeup for anybody but myself. I like practicing, and making myself feel more confident. So please stop calling out girls or guys who love wearing makeup and do me a favor and don't comment hateful things, it really messes people up. And to the girls who wear makeup, keep doing you. Have a great day everyone!

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