Make-up, or No Make-up? (Part 1)

Make-up, or No Make-up?
Part one of the two parts series where I argue both sides of that question.

This is a question that has divided woman across the world. Should we stay as bare as we were the day we were born, or should we try and spice things up? After careful consideration, I have chosen a couple of arguments defending the latter:

    I am going to start off by saying that a smile is the best make-up a girl will ever wear. This old, cliché, cheesy saying is well known and most often overlooked by people, but needless to say that it is true. 

    Secondly, girls shouldn't wear make-up to impress guys. They shouldn't have to think that to get a boy that they have to look like a Barbie doll, the girls you see in magazines, (who are, for the most part, Photoshopped), or like all of the other girls in school. A quote that I have been seeing a lot lately is: 'Imagine, if all girls started wearing no make-up and comfortable clothes, guys would have no choice, they'd have to fall for a girl's personality and natural beauty.' I think that this alone speaks for itself.

    To follow I am pointing out that over the past few years people have been pointing out the addiction most girls have to make-up. They get the feeling that they can't live without having foundation and eye shadow on. This, in time, could turn into quite a serious problem, so it is probably better that we encourage girls to go bare faced. As Macklemore once said: 'The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing women that they looked better in their make-up." I feel like wearing make-up just to walk five minutes through town to go to the supermarket, in case you bump into someone you know is silly. It's the same with clothes: would you put on a ball gown to walk a couple of minutes through town to go to the supermarket, just in case a prince just happened to walk past you and invite you to a ball.

    

    To finish I would like to bring up something that everyone girl/woman who wears make-up will deny. They will tell everyone that it is false and that they don't wear make-up to feel prettier, but deep down in the darkest corners of their minds that very feeling will be locked away in chains. I'm not about to go into a long debate about why this is bad, and I know that lots of girls/women wear make-up to feel more confident, but is this really a good thing? You've all seen the posts, the rants, the debates about make-up and self confidence, so I won't plunge into that, as I would probably go on and on. Nowadays, lots of celebrities are joining in on the make-up and self confidence debates, and as Tyra Banks once said: 'I love the confidence that make-up gives me.' The problem with all this is that people don't want young girls to think that to be confident you have to hide behind a mask of make-up, after all make-up is self confidence applied directly to the face, isn't it?

Now, I know I have just defended not wearing any make-up, but that is far from my point of view. I love, and wear make-up, but not enough that it changes my appearance. I think that we should encourage young girls to wear make-up, but, for example, if they have acne free skin we should not encourage them to wear foundation and concealer, as it does nothing to help them, it actually could make them more spot prone. Please stay tuned for part 2 of this series, where I will be doing the exact same thing, only this time I am for make-up and not against it.