Am I sick? Nope, I've never felt more healthy.

Am I being unprofessional? Nope, I have never seen makeup be part of a dress code except by society's silent rules on beauty.

Am I tired? Yes, of your dumb questions because I'm not wearing makeup..

As a personal choice, on weekends I do not wear makeup unless my family or friends are going out for a special occasion. This does not mean I'm lazy, it does not mean I am sick, and it does not mean I don't care about my appearance. It does, however, mean that I am confident in my own skin and don't feel compelled to shlack on product after product for a "natural but dewy but also put-together look."

People ask dumb questions all the time to the woman who dares not to wear makeup and still be seen. Sure, your teacher said there are no dumb questions, but it is downright dumb to ask a woman if she is healthy merely because she is not wearing all 15 products she does at other times.

Yes, she will be paler than usual because she doesn't have blush, bronzer, or foundation on.

Yes, she will have bags under her eyes because she has not applied concealer to pretend she doesn't after working a 9-5 all week and coming home to her other responsibilities. All humans have bags, especially the stressed out humans who do a lot in a week.

Yes, her eyes will not look defined, big, bold, smokey or any other adjectives eye makeups are now suggesting eyes should appear to be.

Yes, her lips will not be the sultry red she wore to the bar on Friday or the nude-pink she wears around the office. This is because she's not wearing pigmented lipstick or gloss... And no, no one's lips are either of those "in" lip colors for women. Natural lips are nude... and often pink, but not the color altered version your eyes like to see.

By choosing to forego feeding the corporate beast more money to cover up the natural beauty few women today feel confident enough to display, I am starting to feel the most beautiful.

I am saving myself A LOT of money. All the girls out there who wear makeup know how much your total comes to after restocking on the essentials.

I am empowering myself to feel truly comfortable in my own skin, a hypocritical mixed-message sent to us through mass media who claim we are all naturally beautiful in our own skin then go on to advertise "natural" looking products to help us be more beautiful... What?

So no, to almost all your dumb questions, I'm still me but I am nude in a most beautiful way now, in the most pure and natural sense.