By Anonymous

Subsequently I graduated from loftier school, I fabricated the conclusion to cease wearing makeup. I vividly recollect looking at myself in the mirror without makeup and being scared to really look at my own reflection. It was only until I had on makeup for the day that I could look at myself without cringing. I knew in the moment, this was not okay. On 1 manus, I generally enjoyed makeup, but on the other hand, I realized I had been using it every bit a crutch to keep myself from truly loving my concrete appearance. So, I made the choice not to clothing makeup for a while. I wanted to go to the identify where I would exist able to wear makeup in a fashion that added to what I hoped would become my already existing self-conviction.

Flash forward ii years later, and here I am, notwithstanding not wearing makeup. After getting over the initial hurdle of badly wanting to cover every imperfection I perceived, I realized I was so much more at peace with my personal confidence when I forgoed makeup altogether. It was astonishing to feel truly comfortable in my own skin for the starting time time in my life. However, I was confronted daily by many feminist issues surrounding the modernistic conversation almost makeup. The showtime difficult crossroad I came to was whether or not I should wear makeup to a job interview. I was so paranoid if I did not wear any makeup, my potential employer would perceive me as lazy, tired, unkempt, etc. About every adult female that wears makeup has experienced the slew of "concerns" people have for their well-beingness if they become a day without information technology.

Among other women, I noticed some speculated I cull not to wear makeup as an attack on their liberty to enjoy the artistry and enhancement of makeup. Others envied the freedom I had in my workplace to wear makeup, or not wear it. I had a close friend at the time, who was required to wear a full face of makeup as a function of her dress code. Her male coworkers could wear makeup but it was by no means a requirement. At the center of the effect, perpetuating all of the trickle-downward furnishings that follow, is the media and many men make something similar makeup into a requirement, indication of character, standard of beauty, etc.

My decision to finish wearing makeup was not a politically charged act of defiance. It was a selection fabricated as a personal pace toward existence at peace with my physical appearance. Just those effectually me, for improve or for worse, often box me into having an calendar. All of this has opened my optics to the larger bug about this topic. I fabricated the conscious choice going into that job interview to not article of clothing makeup and hazard the negative opinions someone might accept of me. In the interview, I had to ask "Is it okay that I do not wear any makeup?" Their response was 'Yes, of course" but in that location was hesitation.

I made the conscious selection to not work anywhere where I might feel pressured to habiliment makeup. Merely I still love the artistry of makeup. I love the talent other people have, and I appreciate the passion others have for it. I encourage the women around me to present their confront to the world in whatever way makes them feel the about confident.