Make-Up Should Enhance Your Beauty. Every day, women across the world express their ideas of beauty differently. Usually, this includes covering birthmarks, behaving a certain way or wearing a certain style of clothing.
All these factors contribute in the overall perception of beauty for that person. This distorted image leads to unhappiness and constant comparison.
Truth is you can never look like another person, because you don’t possess the same compositions they do. You just have to learn to live with that reality. Before delving into why make-up should enhance your beauty and not transform your look, let’s quickly define the term ‘make-up’.
What is Makeup?
Make-up as a term loosely used simply connotes the use of cosmetics such as lipstick, or powder applied to the face, to enhance one’s appearance.
The definition of make-up clearly states: ’to enhance one’s appearance’, it didn’t imply that its use would transform your appearance.
A person skilled in applying stage make-up can change her appearance quite a bit. If by chance, you mean regular street make-up, it is designed to enhance your natural beauty not change your whole look.
You can glam yourself up quite a lot and present a very different version of yourself but it’s still you.
How Do People Perceive Makeup?
A popular Nigerian online media personality and author, Reno Omokri took to his Instagram page to speak about the effects of ‘make-up’ on a woman.
According to Reno, a man should never marry a lady whose face he has not seen without make-up. He noted that women who put on make-up intend to lure men into a union they would not have been interested in.
He added that make-up should be used to enhance the beauty of a woman and not transform them into what they are not.
Makeup is designed to enhance your natural beauty not to change your whole look. You can glam yourself up quite a lot and present a very different version of yourself but it’s still you.
That said, a lot of celebrities look almost unrecognizable without makeup. That might just be because we are used to seeing them in a certain way.
So whenever you have an intention of wearing cosmetics, you should consider enhancing your beauty and not transforming the way you look.
What Is The Right Way To Use Makeup?
Having a good appearance is important because it helps create that first impression about you. Though, it is important to note that beauty is not all about applying different products on your skin. That may even be considered more insignificant.
What would supersede that notion are your self-confidence and carriage, your worth on the interior and how it complements your exterior. Hence, your caliber, the stuff you are made of.
More so, it is believed that eye contact is the strongest form of non-verbal communication. Why bring up this philosophy you may ask? This is why.
For some women, the thought of leaving their homes without make-up can be compared to feeling completely exposed without clothes.
That incomplete feeling is because of low confidence levels. As was previously reiterated, make-up shouldn’t change you but enhance your beauty.
Many years ago, the idea behind cosmetics was a part of a ritual that aimed at enhancing beauty instead of creating it.
As years have gone by, we have forgotten that make-up is a form of art and should be treated as such. Today, there are so many outlets trying to constantly shift this concept into what you should like or be like.
This ultimately causes users to lose themselves in trying to achieve certain looks just to feel good about their altered appearances.
The Effects of Makeup
Applying cosmetics to transform your appearance will only appease you temporarily; the satisfaction wears off when it’s wiped off.
Seeming natural bare-faced looks are always outstanding, giving you that glow where it only enhances your beauty, not necessarily transforming it.
A natural bare-faced makeup is also catchy because there is a blend to your skin that keeps your confidence intact.
This is much better because you can still be seen as you and be recognized by folks. The only difference is the glamour, beauty enhancement, and higher self-confidence it provides.
You really don’t need to feel like you are someone else because you are wearing make-up, rather you can enjoy the self-satisfaction.
My philosophy is beautifying yourself without a total change of your actual appearance. I think that natural beauty is exceptional, but I also do not think that make-up is something we shouldn’t use.
On the contrary, it allows for experimentation where one pitches their natural look against their enhanced looks with make-up.
It is so disheartening and deceptive when you pull a gorgeous look while wearing make-up and get a man hooked today. Then, when he returns tomorrow and sees you without make-up, the feeling he gets is akin to that of meeting a stranger or a ghost.
Perhaps you aren’t proud of, or have the confidence to visit him or spend time with him without wearing make-up.
You may feel this way because you believe that is the reason for which he is attracted to you. You may not be wrong about that. But the question here is, for how long can you keep that up?
Only people who wear make-up to achieve complete makeovers, and not project their beauty would prefer such struggle.
Conclusion
The idea of make-up is to feel fabulous with or without it, and not to hide from your flaws, perceived or evident.
Something we ought to find noteworthy is the fact that we are what we believe. In the future, when applying your makeup, remind yourself just how beautiful you are without it.
On days when you forget, remember the feeling of empowerment that comes from being created in God’s image and likeness.
God is not ugly, and neither are the creations of his hands. You can look good without being totally transformed but more attractive.
Bring back the spark again. Girl you are beautiful and it’s your right to feel special. You are loved!
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