Makeup Your Mind

Maybe she’s born with it, or maybe she’s wearing make up? Makeup is used to highlight, enhance, and alter someone’s appearance to make them appear their own version of “perfect.” Mascara to make lashes longer and fuller, eyeliner to make the eyes pop, blush to give a healthy contour, lipstick to create a deeper tone, bronzer in order to appear tanner, and much, much more.

Females and some males partake in the daily ritual of applying makeup, and there’s nothing wrong with including what is “in” right now, speaking cosmetically, in someone’s morning routine. The question people are pondering is why? Why do people wear makeup?

Well, makeup is an art. It really is. It is an art form that is equally as difficult and talented as if someone were to take up sculpting. Bringing out the deep colors and highlights in someone’s face is not something people can do without practice.

Females all around are subjecting themselves to society’s ideal image of perfection, and that’s not what makeup is for. Makeup is for confidence and beauty. Makeup is something that people should do for themselves and not to please or to impress others. Everyone should love the way they look naturally, but there’s nothing wrong with getting done up every now and then. Some people do it to add confidence to their personality, or just because they simply enjoy doing makeup!

There have been memes created of real people who are skilled in their makeup-applying abilities saying rude comments such as “This is why you take a girl swimming on the first date,” showing pictures of a girl wearing makeup and then what she looks like when she is not wearing any, and pictures of males wearing makeup saying, “What is wrong with this generation?” Makeup is not a gender-restricted activity. If someone wants to wear makeup (regardless of the amount of it, or their sex), then wear makeup! Although debatably comical (to some people), these comments are hurtful, offensive, and rude. Yes, people look different when wearing makeup, that’s the point. That doesn’t mean they should be shamed for their enhanced appearance. Instead of putting them down for using cosmetic materials, why not compliment them on their artistic ability and talent?

It really is an art, and not many people realize that.