#makeup culture

[sunnysart]

Calling women who don't wear makeup 'pick me's means you admit that you only wear makeup for the male gaze

[radish-lesbian]

Women who don’t conform to oppressive beauty standards hold up my world

[niiwa-angel]

Gyns omg. I work as a waitress and we had a new girl training today. She's my age but holy shit, the makeup she wore made her look scary. Both too old and too young, just a really plastic, fake look.

She had these really long fake eyelashes, just very unnatural looking and very think, drawn on eyebrows. She had a very round face but her eyebrows were drawn on huge, so they made the rest of her face look horribly disproportional. She had also way over lined her lips, I imagine to try to make them look fuller, and then when she drank some water later (because it's hot working in restaurants and all the walking makes you sweat so you have to drink) the lipstick ran and smeared. She looked like she had a rash around her mouth.

She also had on so much fucking bronzer, it was insane. Like, her arms and her face were two completely different colours. She'd contoured her nose to look super small as well and combined with the big eyebrows, just looked very weird, she looked like one of those crazy Snapchat filters.

It came as a total shock to me, since most people in my area don't wear makeup, since our area is mostly physical labourers or trades people, and those that do wear very minimal makeup. Just some tinted chapstick, maybe some mascara. Actually highlighting your features, not just covering everything up.

And the sad thing is, she's a really funny, smart girl! We had great conversations while we worked, she's really well spoken. I imagine without the makeup, she's really beautiful! But the amount she had plastered on was scary to look at and very counterproductive to working in a restaurant. I hope she sticks around and we can become kind of friends, because I wanted to tell her she'd look so amazing without all that crap but that isn't really something you say to someone when you first meet them.

[catgirlapologist]

makeup can absolutely be used as an art form. no one is arguing that for example someone painting colorful, elaborate compositions on their face isn't doing art. what we're saying is that every day makeup, the one people use to "fix" their features so they look more conventionally attractive, and to adhere more to society's beauty standards, should not be written off as art. makeup culture can do immense damage to people's self-esteem, and it can seriously alter how you view yourself. you shouldn't need foundation, eyeliner, etc etc to find yourself pretty, but because of how ingrained using makeup is in our society, a lot of people genuinely feel like they need these things to be beautiful and that's a dangerous mindset. it's okay not to use makeup in your day to day life. it doesn't make you ugly, it doesn't make you lazy, it doesn't mean you don't care about how you look. makeup should not be the norm, it should genuinely be something you use to express yourself, but we need to acknowledge that right now, on a wider scale, that's not what makeup is

[totallytubularific]

I don't know how to say this exactly, but I see so many people choose to wear/not wear makeup due to not just outside societal pressures but also the concept of sin and morality.

Like there are so many posts that are like, wearing makeup is a sin and a moral failing because God made us perfect, and you shouldn't cover it up. But like, I don't believe in a god, and I don't believe that human beings are perfect. But I also don't believe that you should have to wear makeup. The choice to wear or not wear makeup should be based solely on whether it beings you joy as a person, it should not be to conform (though it can never truly be unattached from societal pressure because simply that is how is has been attached for so so long) it should not be because wearing makeup is a moral failing (which is a line of thinking that often leads to thinking of people that do wear makeup as sinners) simply not wearing makeup should be based on whether or not you get joy out of it or not. There are many reasons to not wear makeup,

I like to touch my face, and be able to eat without fucking lipstick, I like to cry, to laugh, to do many things that makeup often makes difficult, so I don't always wear it.

But I also sometimes do wear makeup, I like wearing black lipstick, because it is jarring and silly, and that experience should not be marred by the thought that it is immoral to wear this or that I am doing something wrong.

Your inherent existence as a human being, should not be considered immoral, and yes, I acknowledge that the societal pressure to wear makeup is bad, it is harmful to the self-image of women and girls, but we cannot stray too far in the wrong direction of telling them that they are immoral and wrong for doing something. Makeup itself is a neutral concept, it is simply pigments for your face, the items and wearing them cannot have a moral weight to them, the culture and consumerization and all of that surrounding the makeup can be negative, but we cannot stray into thinking that simply wearing makeup is a moral failing because if we do we will divide people instead of accomplishing a goal that is the deconsumerization and decommodification of beauty.

[uchidachi]

Makeup ads are exhausting. I just saw one that was all “you can style your brows a different way every day!” like that’s a selling point instead of yet another incremental capitalist torture.

[bigballer1137]

(Choose based on your personal opinion instead of your habits, such as enjoying makeup but not wearing it yourself)

[aman1taverna]

op made this unrebloggable but this is so funny to me. what do you think terfs believe

[manichewitz]

the phrase “rockstar girlfriend aesthetic” makes me break out in hives. why is it perpetually trendy for women to have to define themselves as some guy’s girlfriend and why are people pretending that this is somehow new and subversive bc ur wearing meticulously blended black eyeshadow

[lordmushroomkat]

I think we, as a culture, should switch from makeup as an expectation to makeup as a fun little thing you can do sometimes.

Makeup brands, stop marketing as "to look beautiful/good/handsome/etc you have to-" and start marketing as "wouldn't it be cool if you painted a dragon on your face?" and maybe everyone would stop being quite so mad at you.

C'mon people, let's switch our collective mindset here, no more makeup to "look good" or "look presentable" only makeup as high quality face paint. It's time to get funky.

[hecho-a-mano]

obsession with looking traditionally attractive is OUT, hairy asses are IN

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

[mollthemaverick]

Pro Natural Beauty

To #femaleempowerment

Beauty standards are a multi-billion industry that feds off of women's insecurities and sells us photoshopped models who embody the ideal and whom we try to measure up to. But nothing is more beautiful or feminine than natural beauty. Women who don't use makeup are the ones winning.

[zenosanalytic]

Also can't be said enough how capitalism plays into and reinforces this. Like: getting ppl to feel like they are a distinct demographic that NEEDS particular products FOR THEM is Marketing 101; thus the proliferation of "Men's" products(including fashion; e.g. camo-chic) over the last 15 years, and "Women's" products following WWII.

This is just my 2¢ as a nonbinary person but I genuinely think that cis people's gender is just as constructed as trans people's. Cis people love to accuse us of having making up genders or artificially modifying our appearance but....the entire makeup, fashion, diet, workout, and haircare industry exists so that cis people can maintain the illusion of two entirely distinct genders with no overlap.

[makiruz]

I'm thinking of the no-make up photos of women, and I think why do all these women look disgusting, but I look normal? And I wonder if it is because I don't wear make up.

I have always known that using a lot of make up is actually bad for the skin, and I wonder if part of the reason people like me look better with nothing on is because we haven't destroyed our skin by covering our faces with garbage since our teens

[melomancy]

kate bush photographed by john carder bush — from the book kate: inside the rainbow