True Beauty, Not Makeup, Wins True Love
Many makeup and cosmetics commercials dishonestly convey an exceedingly unrealistic and dangerous ideal of how people are supposed to look to society. Makeup distorts the notion of what true beauty actually is, and results in frequent mistaking a false, short-duration love for lasting and thus, true love. The way makeup and clothing manufacturers pedal their wears really irks me. They seem to be saying that one is not whole or worthy of being loved unless s/he wears their junk on their faces, or garments on their bodies. Why do they do it, and have so many people buy in? Perhaps due to the same reason that the ANT, needs the chocolate covering to appear appetizing, right? Perhaps makeup enables a person to exaggerate their good looks, just as a chocolate coating makes an ant delicious to eat.
I do not believe in keeping things a mystery by hiding behind a face of makeup until it is too late to turn back. That’s a classic bait-and-switch ploy. Generally, I’m romantically unimpressed by a lady’s skill with makeup; I’d rather know what she looks like without the shimmer and glamour of cosmetics so that I can learn straight away if I’m capable of falling in love with the real her.
Many spend so much time faking their beauty that they never learn how to show off their true beauty comfortably. Here, the ant tastes better, minus the chocolate. Rouges, powders, oils, buffers, foundations, mascara, and any other cosmetics may cover true age, hide blemishes, and accentuate one’s desirable features while downplaying the less interesting ones. But makeup cannot very long obscure the truly (or not) loveable parts of a lady; that whole part of her that once revealed, includes blemishes and all. It’s this whole part revealed that makes men and women (at least, those of substance) fall in love if they’re going to.
Such disguises confuse the issue however, by creating fake beauty and dysfunction in relationships. They trick our innocent bystander into swallowing the ant without knowing the true nature of the morsel beforehand. The chocolate hides the “anty” nature of the ant until it’s too late, just as makeup hides a woman’s true beauty until a man becomes too emotionally involved with her to pull away.
What these makeup lovers may not realize is that any love lust they create in another with their visual slights of hand, lasts only as long as the makeup stays in place. Eventually the cosmetics come off though, revealing the true beauty or lack there of. I’m turned if I find that makeup has been used to hoodwink me, because hiding one’s true appearance shows the change artist to be dishonest.
Ideally, men and women would meet wearing absolutely nothing – no clothes, no makeup, no cosmetics, and thus, no pretense. We’d see nothing but them in their unabashed entirety. This would simplify figuring out whom we might or might not love, because we’d see everyone’s true beauty, right up front. Since true beauty lasts, while the fake beauty that comes from makeup does not, we could more remaining attracted to a potential lover much longer than the false love lust that makeup use often generates. Why? The visual impressions that encourage love at first sight would not as likely vanish; not like they do when the skillful application of makeup inspires the love, but then comes off. Love then, would last longer than the first sighting, and in fact, become love at many sightings, an indefinite number in fact.
Since love that lasts looks a lot more like true love than the short-lived attractions for which makeup is often responsible, it hard to ignore the notion that true beauty, not makeup, wins true love. Find love without makeup, and chances are that the love you find will last, and thus, be more true.
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