It's funny,

It's like when you are sitting there talking about how a girl wears too much makeup, you're judging her but then a couple years pass and you no longer wonder why she does it. She wears all that makeup because she either likes the satisfaction of having it or she hates her face without it.

So simple.

Either way you are no longer judging her.

You are hoping that she loves herself without the makeup. You hope that she looks in the mirror and feels pride, not shame. You hope that she loves her freckles or the scar she got when she was seven. You hope that she has peace within herself. No, you don't judge her anymore.

I think that is growing up. It is seeing other people's views and caring about a person's inner self.

Growing up is learning that women should ban together, build each other up. But yet too many of us choose to tear each other down.

As you get older you come to realize putting on makeup for many people is a way for them to express themselves. Much in the way that they also choose the shirt that flatters the work they have done for themselves. And that is beautiful. It is beautiful that men and women can modify their characteristics to express themselves. They chose that glittery eyeshadow because they simply wanted to and they chose to contour because they love the look of their already define cheek bones. So simple. They enjoy high lighting their beauty and it is something so simple to understand.

You watch a woman take off her makeup and a piece of you feels the vulnerability.

I often choose to not wear makeup; I enjoy myself without it. But yet I catch myself apologizing for it. But then again I often apologize for loving myself for who I am. But that's the society we live in. I must contain my love for myself because those torn down girls will only begin to understand what it means to love themselves once us as women begin to help them. Isn't that funny?

We should love ourselves. So many don't. So many hide behind these modifications, others hide in rooms and other just simply disappear because they are afraid of being seen.

I watch the same woman put on her makeup. I can feel her confidence. I feel her inner self surging with beauty and yet I sense her fear.

No, something isn't right. She couldn't completely cover her blemish, now how will she feel beautiful?

I grew up being led that we should be careful of our faces because we must stay beautiful. Now, well now I believe my scars tell my story and my blemishes show my vulnerability, while my eyes show my strength.

As I put my lipstick on I look at my face, I smile. I have all my makeup on, I feel beautiful and now society will too. However, that's not why I'm smiling. I smile because I know later as I take the makeup off I will still feel beautiful, I will still love myself.

I hope that every girl feels beautiful, with or without the modifications. I hope that they rock that glittery eyeshadow and I hope when they get home they rock it out as they take it off.