I am, like many other young adults, OBSESSED with makeup. I love everything about it, from natural looks to SFX I just love makeup. I am amazed by what someone can do with a few products and a half hour, or dozens of products and a few hours. The transformation that can be done is astonishing.
I also love watching beauty gurus online. It started when it was all tutorials and explaining how makeup works, but the industry has moved more into vlogs and challenges and I love how makeup has created a community of people and brought people from all over the world together simply by existing.
As an avid makeup lover, I wear makeup every single day. Even on days, I don't venture outside my front door. Crazy, right? Nope! I just love makeup. I love the art of it. It is the same as a painter painting a picture when they aren't getting paid, or a singer singing in the shower. I wear makeup every day, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I love to experiment with different eyeshadow combinations, try out different shades of lipsticks, and test new products. What better way to do that than when no one else will see if I mess up? What better way to get better than to practice at a craft every day? I love putting makeup on. I love that I can make my eyes look a different shape just by how I angle my eyeliner wing. It's amazing to me that I can feel like a completely different person with my face made up, but with it on I feel more like myself.
Makeup is therapeutic. It is calming to me to tap foundation in with my makeup sponge. It is nothing less than bliss when I flick my second wing perfectly to match my first. When I put on blush, I feel life come to my face. Mascara raises my eyelashes and my mood. It is utter bliss to catch my reflection or take a snap and see this glorious piece of artwork displayed on my face. To know that I did that. I created a masterpiece, and it will only last a day. I get to create an entirely different masterpiece tomorrow.
It is borderline euphoric to get compliments on my makeup looks. No, I don't necessarily mean, "Oh my gosh you're so pretty!" Because that isn't what this is about. It is about those times when someone says, "I love your eyeliner! Your wings are perfect!" or when someone asks what product I use because the ones they have tried haven't worked as well for them as my products have for me. It is about when someone acknowledges that no, this ISN'T what I naturally look like, but still appreciates the work and effort I put into my look as opposed to degrading it because it isn't "natural" or "attractive."
I might've used makeup at one point in my life to appear more attractive, but the funny thing about that is that when I did, I didn't do my makeup very well. It was what other's wanted to see, and I didn't have any passion driving me towards my look. Now, I do makeup because it relaxes me, and I view it as art and expression. I think I look fine without makeup, but I also think. I look fine without clothes.
If I wouldn't leave my house naked, why would I stop my physical expression of self with just clothes?
