Throughout my few 19 years I have spent as a woman, I have realized that I am expected to be pretty....like all the time.
I am still in awe when someone tells me that I look sick or they asks me if I am sick when I don’t have makeup on. My answer to them, "No I am not sick, I am at the f*cking grocery store picking up my chicken flavored Ramen for the week." I didn't know that aisle 12 was a f*cking fashion runway.
As social media has taken over and the perfect body image is being shoved down our eye sockets, the female population has become more prone to judge one another when we aren't wearing makeup. Some women claim to wear makeup to please men, but I believe as a woman that I wear makeup to compete with other women. I wish I didn’t feel compelled to do so.
Statistics show that “pretty” women get paid more and are more likely to get a job over a “non-pretty” woman. Once again, I am left in awe that my use of make-up determines whether or not I get a job and how much I could get paid. I wonder why this is the way it is…?
Being a woman, I am not allowed to feel pretty or admit that I just might be pretty. It is considered conceited and wrong. But why? I want to look in the mirror and admit to myself that I am beautiful whether I am wearing make-up and meeting society's standards. I want to feel comfortable in my own skin and embrace my natural beauty, but that is so taboo.
You're not allowed to be pretty unless you're a size double zero, with thick hair, big eyes, and full lips. Don't get me wrong, that body is beautiful too, but why isn't mine? I have fought hard to get to the body image that I have today and I don't want to stop where society tells me I have to. I am beautiful in my size 6.
You owe it to yourself to look in the mirror and feel pretty each day, because lets face it, life is hard and you don't need that sh*t. You don't need to paint your face on (unless you want to) every morning to please someone else. Please yourself by sleeping in!
I feel flawless with my fake lashes, but that sh*t just ain't natural. So bottom line, why are we judging each other for it? Own that no make-up look by literally wearing no f*cking make-up! You don’t owe the cashier at the grocery store, or the manager at the gym a cake face.
