Three words. Eleven letters. Say it, and I'm your (new BFF).
"I love makeup."
Makeup has always been a fun passion for me. I remember being a little girl and watching television commercials advertising the latest Maybelline mascara. The girls on the screen appeared incredibly confident, powerful and donned inhumanly long lashes. I was ecstatic to grow up so that one day, I too, could wear makeup and flaunt $8 mascara and inhumanly long lashes. (Pro tip: When it comes to mascara, buy from the drugstore. Mascaras are meant to be thrown out every three months due to bacteria buildup, so please don't buy a $25 mascara that you will have to throw out sooner than later.)
Today I stay true to my drugstore mascaras, but I have branched out and now have all the different types of makeup products. Somehow, there are still days when I feel as if I do not have enough makeup. It's a problem, I know.
Perhaps an even greater problem for me is the amount of annoying comments I hear from guys about girls wearing makeup. A lot of these aren't mean, they're just sort of dumb.
1. "She wears too much makeup."
Oh, I didn't know there was a legal limit to how much makeup a girl could wear. Makeup has a spectrum: there are natural looks, and there are dramatic, heavy looks. Both types of looks are beautiful in their own way. Usually more dramatic looks are reserved for the nightclub, but if a girl chooses to flaunt it during the day time, admire her confidence instead of bashing on her.
2. "Girls wear makeup to impress guys."
You know, this statement might almost be correct if it said "Girls wear makeup to impress girls." Some days I see a girl with perfect winged eyeliner and I just think damn, she must have her life together! Girls who can do perfect wings probably have a 4.0, a hot boyfriends/girlfriends, a cute puppy and a vanity full of makeup products - and what more could one want in life?
Seriously though, even when girls aren't wearing makeup to impress each other, we're wearing it for ourselves. I don't own 30 eyeshadows for a guy who can't tell the difference between matte, satin, and shimmer.
3. "You look better without makeup."
I truly feel bad for being aggravated by this comment. I get it, it's just his opinion. If that's what a guy really thinks, cool.
It's just that even my shortest makeup routine can still take up to 20 minutes to do (partially because your girl has to jam out to trap music while putting it on) and I hate feeling as if I wasted that time when I could have been sleeping - which brings me to the next ignorant comment.
4. "Makeup is such a waste of time to put on."
Makeup is never a waste of time to put on! Makeup is a hobby. If something is your hobby, you are not wasting time when you do it. It does take time out of your day when you could be finishing errands, but it is still something that you enjoy doing.
Sometimes when I'm bored and need something to do, I just slap a bunch of cosmetics on my face to see if I can create a new look. Because makeup is that much fun.
5. "Wearing makeup is unhealthy for your skin."
Well true, many makeup products are full of chemicals and not everyone can always afford to buy the high end, natural, vegan products. But I would argue to say a lot of the things we do to our bodies are unhealthy. Eating junk food is unhealthy, drinking and smoking are unhealthy, even staying in the bright sun for too long is unhealthy. We can afford to take a few risks for our bodies here and there.
Just give your face a break from the makeup every once in a while, and most importantly, do not wear your makeup to bed!
6. "Girls wear makeup because they're insecure."
Boys, I do not wear makeup because I'm insecure.
I do not need it to look good.
Because frankly, I'm already hot as hell.
Not actually, but girls really don't wear makeup because we're insecure! Some of us want to conceal a pimple or discoloration here and there, but that does not make us insecure as a whole. We just want to hide an imperfection on our face, so if you want to call us insecure for that - you are saying that we are insecure about a few square inches of our entire selves.
7. Makeup is false advertising.
Holy cow, if there was one thing that boys say about makeup that makes me want to pull my hair out, this is it.
Makeup is not false advertising. The models and celebrities you boys obsess over - they're wearing makeup too! And yeah, not that many girls are equally as good looking without makeup as they are with it on. But that does not make it false advertising. It doesn't even permanently change your physical appearance, it's not like plastic surgery (although we shouldn't judge those who get plastic surgery either).
Truthfully, most girls are just trying to use makeup to enhance the natural beauty they already have.
For example, we use brow pencils to draw in extra eyebrow hairs so our brows seem more defined.
I'm sure if a guy could use a pencil to draw in extra inches on himself, he would.
