The first day at school. For work. When you meet with guys. All those times where you feel like make-up is required.
It’s kind of a taboo when you meet some of your guy friends or flirts (no matter how big or small a flirt) and you’re not wearing make-up. Just like it takes a while before you feel like you can go to school without make-up. And at work I don’t feel representable or ‘authorical’ enough if I’m not wearing just a liiiittle bit of make-up.
The other day my friend was at the gym working out. No make-up. No hair done. Red in the face. Gym clothes on. Running away on the treadmill. Exhausted. And then along comes the guy she’s been hooking up with and having a little thing with recently. But it is still so fresh that you feel like looking your best every time you see him. And what happens? She sees him when she looks her “worst” (in her eyes).
You go grocery shopping, thinking that you can make it across the street in your jogs, messy hair and absolutely un-maked up face, through the dairy section to get the milk, through the cashier and back across the street and home, without meeting anyone you know. Should take five minutes tops. But of course that doesn’t happen. You run into your fling or something.
But some guys really think you look your best when you’re not wearing any make-up. When you’re all natural. It’s like they can see you, and the sexy thing about it is that they can see your confidence. A girl who doesn’t feel like she has to help her look on the way with make-up steems with confidence. And they know what they get – it’s like not stuffing your bra with extra socks.
But some girls feel more confident with that bit of mascara. Not because they’re comfortable with the way they look, but because of that little “lift” the mascara gives your morning tired eyes and that plainness the concealer gives to your skin. Either way, meeting your fling with no make-up un should be as un-tabooized as with make-up on.
What make-up and a little help from Photoshop can do:
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