• daannii@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    I’m a woman. I don’t wear makeup and I’ll tell you why. I have a lot of reasons.

    1. I’m too lazy. (Meme applies). This is infact my number 1 reason. To be honest.

    2. I don’t feel other people deserve for me to get dolled up for them.

    3. As I’m getting older, I suspect that if people get used to seeing me with makeup, then when I don’t wear it, they will think I look like shit that day. And I want people to know this is what I look like all the time. So no better face to downward compare my regular face to.

    4. As a feminist. Who has 3 nieces. I want them to see that it’s normal for a woman to not wear makeup. Idk if they get it.

    5. I think I’m decent looking and I don’t need it anyway. As I’m getting older I still think that. My face is mine. It’s not a bad face. It changes with time. As it should. I don’t think aging makes someone ugly. Just different. And ive had that opinion for as long as I can remember so as a woman and aging, I’m not as anxious about “losing my looks”.

    Last point. I don’t care if other people wear makeup. And a guy wearing nice makeup always catches my eye.

    But I don’t think it should be something that anyone feels like they have to wear to be able to go out in public.