For women who depend on makeup to make themselves look their best, I respect you. The skill you have to have to properly place that makeup to look so good, it’s talent! For women who don’t wear any kind of makeup, I’m with you. I’m here to talk about my personal experience and opinion being someone who never wears makeup on a daily basis (other than lipstick, occasionally). I want to talk about embracing your natural looks because everyone is beautiful with or without makeup.
I don’t always get my 12 hours of beauty sleep like I’d love to. I typically wake up with dark under my eyes. I know so many women who know just the right amount of concealer to cover that up, but I can’t. I try to get as much sleep as I can, therefore I don’t have enough time to cover all that up, but that’s okay! Your worst enemy is yourself. I always complain about those dark circles, and everyone around me doesn’t even see it! When I tell my friends, they tell me it’s nothing to worry about. You don’t have to depend on makeup to cover up something nobody else notices.
Everybody in the world gets blemishes. I get two specific pimples every time my period comes around, and I hate it. Why do these blemishes feel like they can invade my face like that? I know some girls who can hide those blemishes, no problem. They make their skin look flawless. Me, personally, I don’t cover it up. I know my skin naturally has oils that sometimes cause blemishes. As much as I hate it, I don’t try to change it. I love my face and all the flaws that come with it. I think it’s great to embrace it.
I have blue eyes and tiny eyelashes. I know so many girls who can make their eyelashes and their eyes POP and they do it beautifully. Me, on the other hand, I just can’t get it right. I wear mascara, my eyes water from the cold, now it’s all over my face. I prefer to go without mascara and let my tiny eyelashes do their thing. I’ve seen friends do that winged eyeliner look and they look so classy. I prefer to let my eyelids be bare. Both are okay and just as pretty.
I have more beauty marks than I can count. I have a birthmark on my cheek, similar to Cindy Crawford, but higher up. Throughout elementary and middle school, kids would use it to tease me. I tried to cover it up once, but I didn’t like how it made me feel. Along with that, I have smaller beauty marks all over my body. I have quite a few marks on my face, and I’ll admit that sometimes I’ll edit my selfies to take some off (shhh) but in reality, I embrace them. My mother used to tell me “the more beauty marks you have, the more beautiful you are,” and this was something I lived by. Friends of mine can use makeup to make their skin clear and flawless, and it looks AMAZING! However, that’s not me. I show the world the real, natural me.
There’s nothing wrong with makeup and I applaud all the women who dedicate their time to perfecting their skill. I respect the craft that makeup does. I also applaud and respect all the women who embrace their natural skin and looks. Many women know the struggle of being a woman. Whether you wear makeup or choose to show the world your natural look, you are beautiful and you are amazing.