Why would I want to change the way I was made? Why would I want to spend money on something that makes me look different than I was intended to look? Besides, makeup is expensive and hurts when you forget to take it off, am I right?

I'm not bashing those that wear makeup. I'm not called to judge others as a Christian. However, I hope to shine a light in some way, that would reach someone who needs to hear this. That little girl that thinks she needs makeup to be beautiful. That mom that thinks she is aging in the worst way and thinks that she is unlovable without makeup. Do you express yourself through makeup? I'm glad there is something you found that you enjoy doing and teach others to do as well. But let's not use makeup as a need. The only thing we need in life is love, and Jesus freely gave that to us.

I started wearing makeup in middle school, 6th grade exactly. Most of the girls in my school started experimenting with makeup, and the only way I thought I was going to get friends to sit with at lunch was to follow the crowd. Did it work? Sadly yes. What that taught me, was to conform to this world. This, however, is something that the Bible states in opposition of. In Romans 12:2, Paul says, "Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

Makeup is something that can start as what we think is a blessing, but end up as a curse. Some feel that they absolutely need it to even walk out of the house. News flash. You're beautiful the way you are, and you are loved. It's not some lousy, changeable, conditional love either. It's God's love, which is the most amazing love to experience. His love is like an ocean. It doesn't care how we look. In fact, He loves us at our darkest, most wrecked, sinful, deepest valley as much as on the day we were created. Makeup doesn't change unconditional love, and we shouldn't make it seem like it does.

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight."

1 Peter 3:3-4

"You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. " Song of Songs 4:7