Against Makeup, For Natural Beauty
10:30 PM: Talked with [Emmy] on the phone. She described a news story she heard today that said that guys are wearing more makeup nowadays. She’s quickly becoming a zealous makeup advocate, saying that if she could, she’d wear it to hide her “imperfections.” Well, this author at least, is patently against makeup.
My position on this for perhaps a decade now, is that humans need to get used to each other’s natural beauty; blemishes, scars, and all. Yet makeup perpetuates and emotionally overcharges the ideas that blemishes are bad, and that everyone should look perfect; which I disagree with fervently. People should appear as themselves, and I’m against makeup because people use too much of it to change their appearance too drastically. Makeup obscures natural beauty; the most lasting beauty of all.
Indeed, makeup’s overuse makes folks appear so different that one really can’t be sure what the made up person actually looks like. This can create shock and disillusion in budding relationships especially, when the guy first sees his lady without her makeup, and it’s not fair to him.
Makeup used thus, is a tool of deception in bait-and-switch schemes that one party sets up to ensnare another, exuding a very different look from their natural appearance in order to attract lovers. Then, when the makeup comes off, the attracted one realizes that the schemer is not what he wanted after all. This can irritate the fooled one as well as sadden the schemer. I’m against makeup because of how much disappointment and dissillusion in relationships can be traced back to it.
In writing, authors often hide their meanings behind big words and long sentences. This can mislead readers whether intended or not, and making it harder to figure out the true meaning. Well, in dating, the overuse of makeup does the same thing; it makes it hard to immediately determine whether the made up person is really someone we’d be attracted to. Makeup is used to tell a lie. Thus, generally speaking, I’m against makeup use to look “better.” You cannot fake natural ability (talent). Likewise, you can’t fake natural beauty either.
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