#anti makeup

[carbonemissionshater]

The fact that thinness came in vogue (as seen in popular culture, magazines, fashion models, etc.) in the 1920s when women got the right to vote is telling. We got real, tangible power and then were told to be thin to achieve beauty, and sickly thin too. The kind of thin with no muscles, no power. It is not surprising to me that our beauty standards keep women physically weaker, physically starving, and mentally exhausted. The beauty standard is nothing more than a tool to keep women weak, docile, poor, and too tired to act.

[haveuevermetme]

Grown women who mock 10-year-old girls on tiktok for using too much makeup and skincare are so ironic and painful to watch.

Acting like these girls didn’t get their ideas from you. They were listening when you were telling them how you should start your retinol treatment as young as you can. They were listening when you told them 30 step routine is a game changer. They were looking at you, at women on the billboards, magazine covers and in the TV shows with perfect skin, perfect eyeshadows, perfect hair and realised they should do the same, they should start as young as they can or it would be too late.

These girls are present when you mock other women for their age. Young women ages 20-30 get bullied for having normal faces. “Oh my god i thought you were 50” at a woman who is clearly in her thirties.

These “helpful tips” how to not get wrinkles which include don’t lift your eyebrows, don’t emote in general, use anti-wrinkle straws, don’t forget to get botox on time.

Red light therapy, sleeping with your mouth sealed, in one position on your back so either side of your face won’t get squished and swollen.

But these little girls are funny, yeah, let’s mock them. Why don’t you mock the promoters of these ideas? Why don’t you mock billion dollar industries? 10-year-olds at Sephora are funny, I wonder if you find the absence of women with real faces on screens as funny

[latinaradfem]

[woman-eternal]

The amount of women getting Botox is so.. sinister. Like we’re just admitting that as a society we don’t think it’s attractive for women to be able to have facial expressions. To express emotion. To raise their eyebrows or wrinkle their noses or grin so big it changes their whole face. We don’t want that in women. Everyone knows why. It’s too human.

[lesbionia]

It costs a few hundred dollars or more for a full bag of makeup. Or you could skip it and bank the money. 

It takes about 30-60+ minutes to do a face of makeup in the morning. Or you could skip it and sleep in. 

It takes time and money to shave, and it has to be done on a regular basis. Or you could skip it, bank the money, and remove a task from your mental load. 

[muppetminge]

wow i love twitter sm.

on a serious note - i think it's funny to portray women not wearing make-up as silly and childish when you're the one apparently caring so much about what other people are doing to their faces.

ask yourself: why do you find bare faces not appropriate for formal events? why does it bother you to see a woman without makeup? how does it effect you? why do you think it effects you?

you're so insistent that there are no societal pressures at play, that women are doing this exclusively for themselves and for the joy of it - then where does this urge to force it on women who don't find joy in it come from? why does it annoy you to see women in their natural way of being? it's a choice, but also there's a right choice, apparently, and anyone stepping out of line shoud be promptly shamed into submission. right?

"a little (whatever) never hurt anybody" okay and neither does a bare face. grow up.

[cheeeeep]

Almost a year ago I got my "dream job" of working at Sephora. I had already began reading a lot of rad fem literature by the time I got there.

10 years ago I would have loved it but by the time I was working there I was already aware of the dystopian nightmare it really is.

It was one thing to help someone find a basic skin care routine to calm their skin but when we had to push certain products.

To make the sales goals you had to look at a woman's face and slowly ask and press them on their flaws and suggest the magic product that would help them.

I did it for one day, I killed it on the sales floor. I could not sleep that night and had already began drafting my resignation letter.

When I grew up, drag full face glam was popular but now it was the "no makeup, clean girl" look and I had to help girl find foundations that would hide their flaws.

Their flaws were either

1. Natural human function of the largest organ we have

2. Cover up the damage they were continuing to do with all the latest products.

I pleaded with parents to not buy little girls skin care than I knew would destroy their skin barriers. But isn't that the point? So when they grow up they need products to help cover up or heal the damage they have caused.

They paid so little I couldn't even afford most of the products in the store even with my discount.

We would have to clap when told we made the company billions of dollars in profits.

It really pushed home the oppressive costume that is "femininity".

I have a lot more to say but I'm droning now.

But I have to say I understand now why people do not want to engage with radical feminism because it "ruins" everything. Everywhere you look you realize the psyops being ran to keep woman consuming and enjoying their bonds.

[haggishlyhagging]

I remember a French woman who came to me in 1993 and criticized Muslim women for wearing the veil. This French woman had a thick coating of make-up on her face, but she was completely unaware that this also was a veil. The French woman's veil was considered by the global media as modern and beautiful, but the other veil was considered backward and ugly; yet the two veils were almost the same since they both hid the real face of the woman.

-Nawal El Saadawi, “Women and the Poor” in The Essential Nawal El Saadawi: A Reader

[honeyblankets]

say i’m overreacting or whatever but it is actually so disturbing and alarming to see the amount of women who wear makeup.

i have acquaintances who i have know for years&decades and have never seen their real faces. i have relatives who have covered their faces every single day for the majority of their lives. there are industries and places where women are required to wear makeup.

every time i (& other women) dont wear makeup and exist as we naturally are it’s seen as either being lazy, low effort, “a pick me” or some radical act. makeup misogyny is so prevalent just existing as we are is seen as the other, as the unnatural or different ‘option’.

its just such a big reminder of how much misogyny there is in the world for me.

and just in case it’s not obvious for you, this is men’s fault. this is the results of the patriarchy. women are simply the victims of makeup misogyny, not the perpetrators.

[being-kindrad]

Andrea Dworkin's classic Beauty Hurts diagram from Woman Hating (1974), updated for modern procedures, fifty years later.

A first step in the process of liberation (women from their oppression, men from the unfreedom of their fetishism) is the radical redefining of the relationship between women and their bodies. The body must be freed, liberated, quite literally: from paint and girdles and all varieties of crap. Women must stop mutilating their bodies and start living in them. Perhaps the notion of beauty which will then organically emerge will be truly democratic and demonstrate a respect for human life in its infinite, and most honorable, variety. —Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating (1974)

[jorindasfate]

this makes me so saaaaad. if women collectively would realise nothing about our natural appearances needs to be altered we would shatter multi billion companies in the blink of an eye AND everyone would be happier. stop being your own biggest bullies! there is nothing wrong with your natural face and hair!

[erebusvincent]

[ghibliradfem]

Repost from my instagram @/ghibli_radfem 💜 (edit: I’ve been terminated on Incelgram 😔) Unedited version from @/softcore_trauma on insta ✨

[gazelledoe]

I've had a thought regarding photos for missing women.

The normalisation of makeup is putting women in more danger.

If the only photos are of her in makeup, people are less likely to recognise her without it.

[uter-us]

incase anyone missed it: pamela anderson went to pfw without makeup!!!

"I'm not trying to be the prettiest girl in the room. I feel like its just freedom. Its like a relief."

i love seeing this. such a win !

[femconstellation]

People genuinely think that their personal attraction disproves the beauty standard. Like oh you’re into fat hairy alt girls? That must mean there’s no societal pressure to look a certain way, huh? You personally decide what society decides is attractive, right? When a feminist talks about how society wants women to look a certain way, your comment of, “Well I find xyz hot!!!” really disproves literal societal conditioning, thanks!