Why not to be carried away by cosmetics is shameful
Masha Vorslav
Although now 30-year-olds managing quadrocopters chopping into a console and dissecting a scooter around the city are more than tolerant; cosmetics are often viewed not as an essential element of the game (not only for girls, but mostly for them) and the correction of imperfections, but as a sign of immaturity, levity, levity, or bad taste. It is clear that the stereotypes like these are a million, they always are and will be - as will those who violently or not really break them.
The author of an exemplary and one of my favorite blogs about beauty, Moore Sobolev, wrote a text that everyone needs to read almost three years ago - this is the ideal “cart” about the importance of self-belief and self-expression (yes, this is text from a beauty blog). My favorite quote is: “In the end, even if painted nails are too bold for us, how to talk about something more serious? For example, about a position in more important issues than make-up?”
In another blog, Twins about beauty, author Alina shares her thoughts about the cult of "natural beauty" and the stereotype about smart and beautiful girls (or one or the other), which for some reason are still alive in 2013. This most natural beauty is often identified with ignoring cosmetics in general: a rash on the skin, faded eyelashes, spider veins - this is OK, the main thing is without "plaster". Lack of make-up is considered an attribute of cultivated youth (as if young skin is trouble-free), and its active use is maturity, which not everyone wants. The idea that the passion for cosmetics is attributed to faraway girls (as by the number of creams or lipsticks you can judge the mind - generally a mystery), is usually parried with a quote about the beauty of the nails - and it is useless to argue with it. My most inspiring friends and friends delve into the differences between nourishing and moisturizing cream and buy 10 different pink blush - because not to use their strengths (including appearance) and not to improve - loser position.
Many girls fear cosmetics as such for other reasons; ignorance is one of them. “The foundation spoils the skin”, “if you use lipstick, your lips will turn pale,” “any styling will make a tree out of hair” - these and other naive and non-viable ideas are broken about common sense, you just have to delve into the topic (you can use the same advanced blogs like The Beauty Brains): most of the creams contain sunscreens (profit), lipsticks have caring ingredients (profit), the times of hair-cementing hairs remained somewhere in the 90s. Another reason is shyness. They are afraid of bright colors, the views of colleagues, passers-by, and loved ones (lack of self-confidence with close people is a separate big conversation); afraid to do something not this way. But in make-up you can not do something wrong.
Make-up is not obligatory and not a set of prescriptions: if you don't want to be beautiful every day, you can not be beautiful
Tinted eyebrows can come out asymmetrical, eyelashes stick slightly, and the contour of lipstick smears, but these are absolutely natural and non-shameful things that are corrected by regular practice in the long run and in the short term by a cotton swab. To decide "this is the right hair color for me, and this one is not" - only your business (not husband, mother-in-law, girlfriend, dogs); and in general, the wording should be more likely "now I want this color, but this one I do not want." Make-up is not obligatory and not a set of prescriptions: if you do not want to be painted every day, you can not be painted; there is time and desire to glue false eyelashes every morning - you can glue; I want to make mono make-up - you can shade cream blush or highlighter on your cheeks, lips and eyelids (using the same tool for different areas of the face is just as fun as trying to replace the missing Lego with others, sometimes even more interesting).
Laughing in the notorious comfort zone is easy. Throwing categorical statements like “I don’t dye and am proud of it” is easy, and it is not easy to buy a concealer suitable in color and sensations. Sniffing into the crowd, seeing a girl with fiery lipstick in broad daylight, is easy, but learning to draw a neat contour yourself is not easy. It is easy to condemn and do nothing, but we all understand what this line of conduct leads to - and not only in relation to cosmetics.