Warpaint smeared across a cheek
The socket of an eye is coloured black
Or smokey as they say in glossy magazines.
My face is always bare and bland
So Hogmanany will brightly see
The new year in with bangs and fizz
That blinds the eyes of God knows who.
I have never been a big makeup wearer but I do sometimes enjoy glamming up for special occasions. However, I’ve never really understood the girls who wear a full face every day.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with it. In fact, I am rather in awe of them. They always look so perfectly turned out and I wish that I had the time or the inclination to look that beautiful every day. I watch The Real Housewives of wherever and wish that I could have those eyebrows.
The problem is that worry over what happens if you don’t have time. There’s always that one day where you sleep through your alarm and you have to run out of the house without a shower or breakfast. If you haven’t had time to put the makeup on you end up looking ten years older than you did just one day earlier.
There was this one time when I went to a staff party and we all stayed over. The next morning everyone was seriously hung over and we all went to work in unclean clothes and none of us had brushed our teeth. There was one girl who always wore a tonne of makeup and she didn’t that day and all everyone went on about was how ill she looked.
But she wasn’t all that ill. I spoke to her that day and she was fine. The problem was that she looked washed out because she didn’t have foundation and mascara.
So, the lesson I am giving you is that perhaps we should look like trolls for most of the time so that when we do make an effort on special occasions everyone thinks we look pretty. Surely this is better than looking stunning every day and then having comments made about how ill you look on the days that you don’t bother.
It’s not a very profound message, but put some makeup on tonight and feel pretty. Don’t bother for the rest of the year and everyone will just expect you to look like a troll.
Much Love,
Rachel xx
Margot Kinberg
That’s a really interesting perspective on makeup. We get so accustomed to how we look with makeup that we forget what we really look like, I think. It’s probably a good idea to get in touch with our unvarnished selves.
patientandkindlove
I feel sad for those girls that won’t leave the house without it. It feels almost like an anchor pulling women down and that makes me sad.
Ingrid
😂 I like your thinking!
patientandkindlove
It’s perfect logic!
crispina kemp
Love it.
I’ve been a troll since I was 25. That’s when I discovered the excruciating migraines were triggered by the perfume in my make-up. Thereafter, yes I wore lipstick & mascara for special occasions. But I haven’t worn any now for 20 yrs. And my skin is so much better for its absence
patientandkindlove
Yep, I’ve been blessed with skin that’s not too greasy so I don’t have awful breakouts and that’s probably down to the fact that I don’t wear makeup. Here’s to being beautiful trolls!
crispina kemp
Indeed. But hey, we’ve seen photos of each other. We’re not that bad.
David M. Green
Make up tends to destroy the skin and using it to look younger – hence fertile – is a deception.
*Like it or not a woman’s beauty is tied to her fertility.
clcouch123
If you have makeup on tonight, I hope you’re having fun with it. I don’t understand a severity of makeup, I mean, the kind that makes the face look like quartz or something and no longer like human flesh. And then to wear that every day. What do I know, but I’m sure there’s a compromise as with many things. I hope you have a pleasant new Year’s Eve and a happy New Year’s day.
David M. Green
Bear on mind that many criticized Michael Jackson for how his face looked after one too many facelifts.
Yet today Dolly Parton sports the exact same look and has yet to be criticized for her artical face and silicone breasts implants.