I wear makeup every day. It can be as little as some eyebrow gel and mascara or I’ll rock a completely full face, but either way, I have makeup on every single day. There are so many misconceptions about me wearing makeup every day. Silly ideas about how it’s probably because I’m insecure or don’t think I’m beautiful. As a makeup lover and enthusiast, I hear a wide range of comments about it:

“It’s a waste of money.”

“You wear too much of that stuff.”

“You’re too young to wear so much foundation, your skin in fine.”

Or the worst one:

“Boys don’t like girls who wear that much makeup.”

I’m not sure why it’s still such a foreign concept that I really don’t care what other people think about me and my love for makeup. For me, makeup is an art and a form of self-expression. I feel more like me when I paint on my winged eyeliner every morning, and that should not be anyone’s business but my own. I wear makeup for me and only me. I would not dare spend $50 on a Too Faced Chocolate Bar palette to impress some boy who doesn’t know the difference between a warm and cool taupe transition shade and doesn’t understand why I would need both.

Trust me, I know I could put that $50 to things that could be more useful to my life; like groceries and toiletries, but sometimes I want to treat myself and buy something that makes me happy. And makeup makes me happy. I feel like myself and really beautiful when I’ve dusted some Benefit Hoola bronzer under my cheekbones. But, just because I feel beautiful with makeup doesn’t mean I don’t like myself without it. The eyeliner and lipstick come off at the end of the day and I am the same person without it than I am with it on.

So, next time you have a comment you think you need to tell your makeup loving friend, keep it to yourself because most likely, they don’t care what you have to say about it.