Wearing or not wearing makeup

I don't see anything wrong with wanting to look and feel your best. If I'm at home I don't always bother to wear make up but if anyone turns up unexpected I feel a mess if I've not put any on. I'd never ever leave the house without it. I just feel more comfortable and ready to face the world when I've got my face on. At the end of the day, who wants to look at my face without it?! Certainly not me!

Lovetotravel

Poppyred

Lovetotravel

Just wondering why some women (mainly) feel the need to wear makeup all the time? Some will say because it makes them feel better about themselves, but why? You can’t see it yourself unless you keep looking in the mirror and when you’re out and about shopping nobody really takes any notice of you. I get it if you’re eating out or at work but not everyday or when you’re at home alone.

Why does it matter to you? Everyone is different, just mind your own business?

I thought this was a forum where thoughts and questions could be discussed. What do a lot of the posts on here matter?

Exactly everyone is entitled to their opinion Lovetotravel was just asking for peoples thoughts on this lighthearted subject I don’t think there was any need for the rude comment from poppyred, with all the horrific things going on in the world it’s nice to have some light hearted chat.

Hubby loves me as I am. Our first date I went with just a bit of lipstick on and a touch of mascara. He appreciated it because I wasn't "painted". He had dated women who almost had to scrape the layers of makeup off and looked totally different without. I was just me. 😊 And still am.

Internal dignity - I haven’t heard that before, but it sums it up perfectly I think Franski, thank you.

To answer OP, why do some women wear make up at home? It's a fair question. I suppose they/ we do it for different reasons. One is that it might be a daily habit, whether you go out or not..and you never know if you're going to go out anyway do you? It might be the same argument about clothes/ wearing a bra/ getting dressed/ combing your hair! There is a rhythm to life and an internal dignity that comes from deciding how to express yourself to the world and to yourself. That might be wearing some make up, no make up, spades of make up. Or being a total slobby scruff at home or dressing fairly well. I imagine its different for everyone. If I am home alone all day, i'll wear comfy clothes that are 'me', still brush my teeth, put on moisturiser and a splash of perfume. If I ended up having to go out, I'd probably put on mascara. If i dont, people tend to tell me i look tired!

I can't "do" make up at all. I never get it right. At the most a touch of something on my face, a bit of blusher and a slick of something on the brows. I try mascara but my hands have never been steady and despite trying all manner of lipsticks and similar it all disappears before I've left the bathroom.

Nail varnish feels heavy such that if I wear it (and struggle with unsteady hands) I can't wait to get it off.

I'd like to say I have good skin, but I don't. It's pale and uneven (as was my dad's) and pretty wrinkled now at 73 (as was my mum's). I never expose it to sun and never have.

All that said, I really don't have the time to faff about with it all tbh cos I have better things to do with my time!

But I do admire ladies who make the effort and look good.

Let women/girls decide for themselves ... it's not a written law ! Sometimes I do and Sometimes I dont ..

merlotgran

^I often wonder what young men think when the young lady they met the night before appears without her false eyelashes, thick brows and huge smoky eyes. Not to mention possible wigs and hair extensions, and lumps and bumps that had disappeared under the smoothing undergarments^

‘Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma’am?’

Tip for a first date to the chaps
“Go swimming”😁

I often wonder what young men think when the young lady they met the night before appears without her false eyelashes, thick brows and huge smoky eyes. Not to mention possible wigs and hair extensions, and lumps and bumps that had disappeared under the smoothing undergarments

‘Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma’am?’

I love makeup and as a singer, have worn it for the stage as a matter of course. I’m with the actress Edith Evans who said “I take the paint well”.
IRL and used wisely, it makes me look tons better. I find the process therapeutic too. Don’t bother too much if it’s a day at home, just lipstick and vanished eyebrows restored.
My mother once said I NEED makeup! Thanks mum.

I only wear makeup when I go out.
Don’t see the point of wearing it at home where no one sees me usually.

If I don’t wear it I look so washed out and pale and haggard .
Not a good look.
Have to be careful though . Not too thick with the all in one crème powder.
Unfortunately, my eyelids are drooping and my eyes now look smaller. A bit of makeup improves them slightly.

I always wear make up. As a child my Mum used to put a little ( what she called) - rouge on my cheeks . This was because, unlike my siblings, I was very pale and washed out and , as my Dad had the local butchers’ shop, I was a poor advert for his wares. I like wearing make up and it does make me feel better. Without it , people ask me if I’m alright or have caught a particularly debilitating bug that’s going round.

Love wearing make up. Takes minutes to apply and takes years off! If I forget to put it on, I always catch my face in the mirror and think I look tired. Most people comment how much younger than my age I look, so it must be doing some good!!
Do go out for a two mile walk every morning sans make up, so not too vain to be seen without it!

I have white eyelashes and eyebrows, I always wear mascara and eyeliner when going out, otherwise I look as though I have no eyelashes at all .

DotScot I do so agree. But the internet has been largely responsible for the hideous goldfish lips and other perverse body modifications.
Sure if your nose is not right whatever the reason and especially if you can’t breathe properly or anything that stops you getting on with your life and it is possible- get it sorted, same if your teeth aren’t right.
…But having naturally white skin (no matter how long you sunbathe or get burned) has since I was born been seen as an affliction hence American Tan tights and tanning lotions and sun beds.
Now though it’s nails like talons and glued on eyelashes and slug eyebrows. Which, - true is their choice but sometimes if you don’t do these things yourself you might be regarded as the weirdo.
Such a shame to see healthy kids with plump glowing skin and naturally shiny hair subject themselves to such unnecessary and expensive procedures and they won’t leave the house unless it's all perfect. What a burden on females mainly but now young boys too.

less is definitely more as you get older - highlight the eyes and some lips. Nothing looks worse than heavy foundation emphasising wrinkles. IMO!

When I wear make-up, which I no longer do every day, I do so for the same reason I wear a bra, brush my hair or dress in neat and tidy clothes before going out. I feel doing this or just one single item on the list, enhances my looks.

So when I am ready to leave my bedroom, I look in the mirror, decide I look all right and go out.

Agreed, I do not see myself, but I feel more prepared to let others see me, rather then showing them the untidy woman who gets out of bed every morning.

Georgesgran yes makeup can make you feel better if that's what folk want. As to clothes, why do so many females go about with just about a skirt? Tops slit down almost to the waist showing just about everything. Shorts so short they curl up and show just about all from the sides? Some say its fashion, others would say to show off. Kind of like makeup too with the false eyelashes, eyebrows either halfway up the forehead or meeting in the middle of their nose, acrylic nails like talons, I just can't figure it out. Bit of light foundation, couple of blinks of mascara, no eyebrows so a bit of if pencil and sometimes a dab of colour and touch of liostick and that's it for me, and not every day.

I don't wear any makeup at all and haven't since the pale pink lipstick, blue eyeshadow and clumpy mascara days of the seventies. I'm now 68, a bit wrinkled where the laughs have been, and a Scottish peelywally shade most of the year.

I think that people should do what they are comfortable with, so long as it hurts no-one. I suppose that some people who have spent some time on their make-up probably look at me, at a wedding say, and quietly make negative judgements. That's up to them.

I did notice the unquestioned assumptions in some of the posts here:

Most Pale ladies look better with a little make up on Better than...?

Other people take you more seriously, as though you have made an effort with your appearance and not let yourself go. So much to wonder about in this one sentence. 'take you more seriously'? 'made an effort'? 'let yourself go'?

piggy eyes Aren't eyes just eyes?

Why would you need your face to be more defined? Or describe its natural colour as washed out without makeup? Why would imperfections need to be concealed?

Why do some people feel the need to perpetuate the pervasive denial of normal aging processes by making themselves look younger?

I did state my belief at the beginning that people should do what they are comfortable with so long as it hurts no-one. Are some of these assumptions, evident through the language people unthinkingly use, responsible for many of our grandchildren (it's not restricted to the girls), feeling that their beautiful natural appearance, whatever it is, has to be modified through make-up, hormones, diets or phone filters to be acceptable to the outside world?

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People are entitled to wear what they want, surely? Without being judged.

I wore foundation, blusher and eye shadow all through lockdown, even though I wouldn't see anyone apart from my husband and sons. It's my comfort blanket.

But I didn't wear a bra throughout the same period!!

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I wouldn’t open the door without make-up on. I feel ugly without it. I don’t look at myself in the mirror constantly, but I do know that I am wearing make-up so I know I look better than I do than when I first wake up. I also have dark rings under my eyes so I cover these daily anyway so I may as well go the whole hog.

Granmarderby
Have you seen what we can do with a photo taken on a smart phone?
It’s called filters. You can change anything you want.

mrsgreenfingers56

My late father used to say "Powder and paint make a woman what she ain't"

Always makes me laugh

I often wonder what young men think when the young lady they met the night before appears without her false eyelashes, thick brows and huge smoky eyes. Not to mention possible wigs and hair extensions, and lumps and bumps that had disappeared under the smoothing undergarments. Watching some of them on social media is a real eye opener - they look entirely different people once they are made up.

Although it's probably not much different to the women of the 40s and 50s who wore girdles, uplift bras and lots of makeup.

I rarely wear it but I do remember reading that actually wearing makeup can save your skin from the effects from the sun .

I used to wear make-up more than I do now. It doesn't seem to suit my 80-year-old face any more. My eyelashes disappeared long ago (too many false ones ripped off 60-odd years ago?). And I'm quite wrinkly, but the colour isn't too bad. Eyebrows get a bit of colour, that's it now.
We're all different, thank goodness.