Could you do without cosmetics?

Gawd, no! I love my morning routine of applying the slap! then I'm ME! Without it I look like me nan, which I'd rather not. My hair is now a gorgeous silver and short, so I need some definition to my face, or I'd disappear!

Never wear any!

Very very little - and then I don't like the look and feel. I work on being well and keeping my skin as clear/clean as possible. The sonic brushes suit my skin (I have a lookalike of the big name). And Victoria Health 'Garden of Wisdom' serums etc are 'the business' - and v economical.

A touch of eye shadow and lipstick, oh, and eyebrow pencil, but only if I`m going out somewhere. I don`t do proper make up because I`m not very good, rubbish in fact, at applying it.

I have had no makeup on all day just moisteriser and looked as though someone should call an ambulance as because of illness I am extremely pale with very pronounced dark shadows under my eyes.. Unusually one set of eyelashes and eyebrows are black and the other set platinum blonde which gives my face a strange look. I have to go to a meeting and have therefore put on "the slap" so I can face the world with more confidence. If I was a natural beauty like my friend with naturally curly lashes a gorgeous skin and pink cheeks makeup would never go near my face.x

Yes easily. I never, ever wear make up, I don't even own any, so no problem for me.

I agree with Doodle !!

Since I retired I have gradually stopped wearing make up. If I am going anywhere special the most I wear is foundation, powder and lipstick. As others have said, my makeup is so old now it all needs throwing out really.

......so essential for disguising scars, however small! It’s a confidence building thing, don’t knock it.

I love my products..... not makeup as such, cleansers, toners, serums and a decent moisturiser. Love my Body Shop stuff.
I get my eyebrows waxed and tinted and eyelashes tinted every 3 weeks. I use eyelash & brow serum to keep them plentiful. Occasionally, a little bit of blusher and lipstick.... Gorgeous, even if I say so myself ?‍♀️

Like eazybee I put make up on for 'me'

I do admire ladies who look good in makeup and a teeny bit envious because I look like a clown ? even when professionals do it! Even at 30 I had professional photo shoot and sadly I look awful ☹️ because of the make up.

PS my husband can’t bear makeup lol ? He says he doesn’t want to kiss ‘it’ and it come off on his face or shirt ? ! So I gave up the lipstick ? !

Apparently I can do without make-up because I have done so all my life! Never put the "suitors" off as far as I could see!

I hate slap, and the older people get, the worse it looks as it creeps into the crevices and looks truly horrid!

Ducks below parapet!!!

I couldn’t possibly go out without my kohl eye liner. Apart from that nothing except foundation in winter if going somewhere special and I used to have to pencil my eyebrows before testosterone replacement. Now got great eyebrows instead of the tufties in the middle, think 1 cm Dennis Healy but not across the brow ! Awful ?

I love makeup would feel naked without it foundation mascara lipstick so not a lot feel more feminine too

I wear foundation....I have sun damage or age patches, whatever they're called.

I like to put it on if I'm going for a meal or my little volunteer job but i keep it pretty low key. I have rosaceae and it does flare up occasionally so I use a French brand cream formulated for it which I buy online where it's cheaper. Always a lippy in my handbag. Don't you just love predictive text - it changed lippy to puppy ?

I look like a death mask without lipstick which I also use to 'touch up my cheeks' as my mother used to do! I inherited the more-than-sickly-look-in-old-age from her too!! We had a Superdrug open here (right next door to Boots and along the street from another chemists...why? - on a tiny island with a chemist in the next village too...but that's another story..)I was astounded by the rows and rows and rows and rows of beauty products in the new shop. What is that about? Having been a teenager when some of us stopped shaving or wearing bras....I don't understand this obsession with grooming, six in heels and looking like a clone of Kim Kardashian. Did we throw off our girdles for nothing? BTW, I only wear the make up as people ask if I am ill otherwise!

Your naked self is the true you.
Imagine the shock a b/f would have if, after only seeing you with a full face of slap, he woke up next to you one day and saw a totally different creature with no eyebrows, sparse eyelashes, thin pale lips and visible age spots, under-eye bags and wrinkles.
Better they get used to seeing you like that from the off.
Minimal enhancement is fine but if you need a scraper on your face and your lips look like a skating rink...it's not a good look.

At 66 I have never worn make up even as a teenager. I am not artistic and I believe you need to be a little artistic. When my daughter reached an age when she wanted to wear make up, I took her to a professional to have a lesson, which has served her well. When I tell people I have never worn make up they say that explains why my skin is in such good condition despite plenty of sun.

I used almost the whole caboodle when I was young (apart from mascara which made my eyes water and eyeliner which I could never perfect) but now it's just eyebrow pencil and sometimes lipstick.

Cleanse, tone and sometimes nourish - and keep out of the sun.

Well, I suppose I could, but like many others, really wouldn’t want to. I have had days spent completely at home when I haven’t worn any, but would never go out without at least some.

Having said that, at a recent spa stay, I didn’t wear make up at all for 3 days. I felt quite comfortable, but hardly anyone else was wearing any either, which is probably why I didn’t mind.

I've hardly ever worn make up over the years, tan well in the sun and have good skin and look younger than I am (67). I have always used moisturiser though.

I moved fr9m Africa to Germany in 1987. Got ready to go out for lunch, within minutes excruciating pain in my eyes, caused by allergic to my mascara! The same stuff I’d been using for over 20 years. From that moment, I stopped. No makeup whatsoever, was so terrified of a reaction to anything. Well here we are, 2019, I get compliments on my skin! Asked what use. I use hypoallergenic shower gel, same shampoo, and everything washed using a pouf, thats the rutched up plastic ball. It exfoliates, lathers brilliantly, no residual soap left in it as with flannels, don’t miss it.