Okay so this is big...huge in fact. If you know me, you know how much. Here before you is a picture of me without any makeup on. None. Nada. You can see all my freckles. You can see my blemishes and my puffy eyes with their dark circles. I can pretty much count on one hand the number of people who have seen me like this. I've worn makeup every day since I was about ten. Even before then I had lip gloss I wore every day. When I've been sick, even when I had glandular fever - I put makeup on every single day. At sleepovers I confess that I leave my makeup on so there's still some on my face the next morning. I like makeup. I like how I look with it on. I like being able to conceal my flaws and play up my features.
But here's the thing. I feel this way about myself...but it makes me angry when other women that I love feel like they are ugly without makeup when I think they're beautiful. It makes me upset that as women we are made to feel like our natural faces are not enough. And yet while I feel these things, I still feel the need to wear makeup every single day.
And so I've decided to be brave. I decided to take a photo of myself without makeup on (and not digitally alter it either for the record.- I never do with any pictures of myself). I've never taken one before. I look strange to myself in this natural state. It doesn't look like me - and yet it is. I decided to post it. This is what I look like, really. This is my face. I'm sure I'll go on wearing makeup every day...but I wanted to take a moment to just acknowledge that I wear it and that while you know my face more as the picture below, the picture above is what I look like underneath it all. That's the face you're really looking at and talking to.
I wasn't going to post this picture...I thought about it, but chickened out...but then I found the above-left picture of Zooey Deschanel. I think she is one of the most beautiful women alive, and it made me so happy that she decided to show her 'real' face. It reminded me of this post lurking in my saved folder, and I decided to go ahead and post it.
Maybe you'll be brave and post your own photo without any makeup on? How do you feel about makeup? Do you like wearing it? Do you feel pressured to wear it?
M.
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