Natural's Not In It

[happiestsadist]

This one's been floating around for a long, long time. But, as these posts often do, it takes a specific thing to make me point out, once again, that the game is fucking fixed.

So yeah. Makeup. And this damn thing. Ten "scary celebrity closeups" *cue spooky theremin*. All I'm seeing are nine women who adhere to the standards of beauty and Iggy Pop

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[crushdmb]

So many pores on my screen right now. <-- OH NO! PORES!

Anyway.

I stopped wearing makeup a long time ago. It's probably been at least a year since I put any on, even for a special occasion. I just stopped caring. It was expensive and I was tired of wasting my money. It also annoys me for it to be on my face. And I hate washing it off only to have most of it stay. So I said fuck it.

My complexion has thanked me for it, actually.

Aside from this week (THREE HUGE PIMPLES OMG lol, probably due to stress/getting a cold/just randomness) I rarely break out anymore.

And you know ... I don't even think most people notice. And it certainly hasn't kept me from gettin' laid.

But, I understand why women choose to wear it. Sometimes I am jealous of their patience (I have none) and ability (I lack talent in applying makeup).

[happiestsadist]

As obsessed as I am, I wear it like less than half the time. Pretty much only when I actually really want to. (Unless my health is being shitty, in which case i wear it because I am sick to death of "OMG are you okay???")

I respect the choice to do either, as long as the choice is there. The world is kinda fucked, and you gotta do what you gotta do to get by. And for those who enjoy it, it's fun as fuck.

[crushdmb]

Your last paragraph basically sums up my feelings on it. :)

I wish I enjoyed it. I have a few friends (this includes a few drag queens!) who have AMAZING makeup skills. I have just never been patient enough for it, really.

[happiestsadist]

I enjoy most things to do involving paint and the alteration of regular human appearance, so it would be weird of me to avoid the most commonly accepted way to do it.

As with most skills, it does take a bit of learning, but if a person's not interested or inclined, there's better shit for them to do.

[happiestsadist]

IGGY POP SWEATS???
Oh hell, cackling for real at that.

I will point out that you are ridiculously gorgeous at all points. Whether wearing four different kinds of glitter or barefaced.

Also, we must hang out soon. For srs.

[ms_daisy_cutter]

The idea that beauty work is both frivolous, stupid and something that must never, ever be acknowledged is just one more way the game is fucking rigged.

Rather like how women are expected to be ~~effortlessly~~ slender. Order a salad? You killjoy, why don't you order a hamburger and make a man happy by letting him watch you eat "real" food?

Also, we're expected to keep "his" house sparkling clean, but don't be such a control freak about, jeez! Nobody wants to marry his mother. And don't even think of asking him to pitch in, because you're the one that wants the house clean, amirite? Men "evolved" not to notice dirt... Steven Pinker said so!!

Also, Helen Gurley Brown is a fucking joke and always has been, and Buzzfeed can suck my internal hemorrhoid and inhale my recycled tomato seeds.

Also, there's a guy named, well, Guy on that Buzzfuck thread who needs porcupining.

[happiestsadist]

Rather like how women are expected to be ~~effortlessly~~ slender. Order a salad? You killjoy, why don't you order a hamburger and make a man happy by letting him watch you eat "real" food?

Quite.

[ms_daisy_cutter]

Oh, and yeah, we're supposed to cater to his emotional needs, but wanting to work out problems = bothering him with our girly need to "talk about the relationship" while he's watching the all-so-important football game.

[ms_daisy_cutter]

So, basically, everything we're supposed to do is ridiculously stupid and unimportant, but gawd help us if we don't do it.

[inthelemonlight]

I had a huge bias against makeup for years and years and years; I found it repulsively artificial and shallow, and refused to go anywhere near it even when subjected to the idiocy of girls around the schoolyard who didn't approve of my going without. More recently I've gotten over myself and decided that it's not a whole lot different from wearing clothing. If one likes it and it boosts one's confidence, then why not? (That is, as long as one's sense of self-worth doesn't rely on it exclusively; that's a bit unhealthy.) Still no interest in it myself, though.

[happiestsadist]

It is pretty similar to wearing clothing that isn't undyed one-piece robe-jumpsuit-things. Vanity and adornment get a awful lot of shit, and that generally means I have to do a lot of side-eye-ing. I do, on the other hand, get terribly judgy of those who give people shit for not wearing makeup. Beauty work should be purely optional.

If one likes it and it boosts one's confidence, then why not? (That is, as long as one's sense of self-worth doesn't rely on it exclusively; that's a bit unhealthy.)
True.

I'll admit I get incredibly delighted by the fact that I can paint my eyelids silver and go out like that, but it's again, optional. For everyone.

[starphotographs]

I also get annoyed at the whole meme where wanting to adorn yourself in whatever way is seen as shallow. Especially because pretty much everyone does it, even the ones who say they don't. If you dress very plainly because you think ~*fashion*~ is vain and shallow... Congratulations. You are expressing yourself through clothing.

I think it's really cool that some people dress up and some dress down and there are all kinds of styles within those two vague categories. It's kinda like everyone has a little piece of their brain on the outside so everyone can see the different colors and objects and designs they like!

[happiestsadist]

If you dress very plainly because you think ~*fashion*~ is vain and shallow... Congratulations. You are express
YES. A loud NO is still a statement.

It's kinda like everyone has a little piece of their brain on the outside so everyone can see the different colors and objects and designs they like!
I like that. A smallish, portable display of what's in there.

[onesteptwo]

I'm in school for aesthetics, done my makeup portion so technically ... I could take my licensing exam and be a makeup artist right now.

We get our makeup kits and what pisses me off the most? SO MANY NEUTRAL, NATURAL COLORS. Fuck that shit! I wear makeup to play with color! I wear browns that look good with my skin tone sometimes, but it's got some glitter in it. ;)

Every time we did a full face application on each other at school, I was five minutes later, scrubbing it the hell off. (And still getting foundation the next day, ugh!) I don't understand this need to cover my face with a ton of makeup and heaven forbid I touch and ruin that effect! No, damnit. I use foundation just because I don't have eye primer to keep my eye shadow looking good. And my eye shadows? Blues, silvers, golds, purples and greens mostly. White and blue and black eye liner. I want that shit to look obvious.

I also scorn my concealer. I have three zits right now. I continue to scorn the concealer. I am not ugly because I have a zit, thank you very much.

[happiestsadist]

I am also a big fan of makeup of the "hey check out how this unnatural pigment works with my features!" school of thought.

My concealer uses: that weird patch on my chin that sometimes darkens and makes people ask me if I have a bruise; when Gatsby woke me last week by scratching my face (thanks jerk); and occasional hickies. Not just regular skin stuff.

[onesteptwo]

Good reasons to cover up with concealer then! I hate when people cover up every single last blemish which usually means THEIR WHOLE FACE. Yeesh. Everyone is beautiful the way they are, people. :(

[deadlyrhythm]

I use concealer to try to cover my massive, constant black eye circles because I hate how tired I look with them. I would have no need for it if I could just stop looking tired!