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It happens to me with my own parents, even! Not because I wear a lot (I only wear concealer), but I just have to wear it or else people think I look sick all the time

This is totally true to me for people who always wear make-up. This one girl in high school always wore eyeliner (that wasn’t even like super over the top) and one day my best friend and I were like omg…she looks sick…I wonder what’s wrong. Then I realized she wasn’t wearing eyeliner and that was the only difference and we lol’d. I only wear super subtle eyeliner like once a month and that’s about it.

Yeah. I don’t try to glob it on, obviously, but I’ve had people tell me that I don’t need “all that makeup” which, usually, means they’re referring to my eye makeup and use of shadow, liner, etc. 

But when I do not, people ask me if I’m okay, sick, or having a bad day. 

I rotate days I do and don’t wear makeup because I know it’s not all that great for my skin, so after I let it breathe for a while it just feels better.

Yeah, people have told me that I look different, even though I put on natural makeup. Whenever I have it off, my parents think that something’s wrong. 

Of course it’s true.  Makeup covers up any redness, uneven skin tone or whatnot… so without it you would look blotchy at times since people would be used to seeing an even skin tone.  Guys and girls who don’t wear makeup don’t have this issue because people aren’t used to seeing them all one “perfect” shade.    

I think makeup only enhances features, it only makes us look like different people if we go all out like bold lips, contouring and dramatic eyes. But still, we have to have a fresh clean canvas to get to that. I only wear makeup if I’m taking pictures or any other time I just want a little bit more to my eyes. You do make a good point on the obligation and pressure thing, but I’ve never felt that way because I never wear too much makeup. It makes my face feel weird. I wear powder foundations and people say I look the same, just with a more even skin tone.

When I was younger a boy I liked told me he didn’t like girls with too much makeup, so I pretty much lightened up on it after that realisation but I only wear eyeliner and mascara on a daily basis and I’ve found if I don’t wear it I think I look sick, my eyes just don’t look right and I look gaunt. My husband says I look beautiful without it but I don’t think I do, for whatever reason.  So I don’t have eye makeup-free days unless I’m very hungover and can’t be bothered reapplying :p

I know a guy whose face freaked me out for a while, but I couldn’t tell why. Then I realized it was because he had gotten rid of his eyebrows. Does that count?

even for super special occasions all i wear is eyeliner. never had a sister to teach me how it’s done.

but i feel that, since people better and refresh without makeup, people should still wear makeup so when they don’t wear it, it has that refreshing impact on people because they’re not use to it.

Yep. 100%

People always say, “You look tired,” when I’m not wearing concealer, even though I’m not tired.  Ugh.

It really depends on how I’m feeling.  I know I look better with makeup on the days I’m really tired or sick (most of those days I just can’t be bothered putting things on my face, but there are exceptions).  But on days when I’m feeling good about myself sans makeup, I think I look just as good as days where I do.

I think it only happens when people wear a lot of make-up. My boyfriend honestly can’t tell the difference when I don’t wear it, because I never wear a lot at all.

Side note – OP, I adore your profile picture! Penguin are my favourites

hahaha yep, truth.

Without concealer, I look deathly. I have horrible heriditary dark circles, and no matter if I’ve gotten 2 or 20 hours of sleep, I look like a zombie. I remember once going into work without makeup because I was running late and there really just wasn’t time. Everyone thought I was super sick. Last time I did that!

I don’t feel comfortable with make up on. It feels hot and I don’t like the idea of sweating with it on so I don’t put it on unless it is absolutely necessary. I also have this fear that people will like the way I look better with make up on and think I’m sick or pale without it. When I wore make up, they told me to always use it. I never did, and I wouldn’t want them to get used to it.

Omg if strangers tell me I put on too much makeup, I’ll happily tell them they eat too much fast food or they need Proactiv.

I don’t wear a lot of makeup, but people never seem to notice if I have it on or not.

I don’t wear it that often at all, so when I put it on people can usually tell that I’m trying to look nice for something.  I think it dresses me up more and is more like an accessory.

Hahaha I think it’s true. I don’t normally wear a lot of makeup to begin with, so people don’t really say I look sick if I’m not wearing it. However, the store that I work at has an unnecessary amount of fluorescent lighting, so if I don’t wear at least concealer and foundation to work, I look like a zombie.

yes it’s true, i wear makeup everyday.

I don’t wear enough makeup in an average day to look very different with and without makeup. At least, people never say anything haha. 

go watch America the Beautiful!

I don’t put anything on my skin, just my eyelashes. I don’t even know why, it’s not like it makes much of a difference, but I feel like a girl when I’m doing my makeup, so I like doing it, if that makes sense, lol.

When I stopped wearing makeup no one told me I looked sick. In fact I got really positive reactions. I was always really good at makeup and people thought my goth look was cool but at the same time they would still rather see me natural. But I take pretty good care of my skin and I don’t use makeup as a temporary fix to make myself look better. I just liked wearing it for artistic reasons. I rarely ever wear it now and I usually don’t need to. I just drink tons of water, moisturize, never tan etc.

very true.

I guess it depends on how much you put on.  I’ve never had any comments between my makeup days and no makeup days.  Granted I just use tinted moisturizer every day and most week days I do a very natural eye look (including undereye concealer).  If you don’t do much and just enhance your natural features I don’t think you’ll get those comments about looking weird.

I agree with the others that said that I don’t wear enough make up for people to notice a difference.  The only time people ask if I am sick is if I am actually sick.

I wear makeup maybe once every week or two.  I believe that if I show people my “real” face most of the time, then they’ll be used to it, and then BAM when I wear makeup, I blow them away.

At least, that’s what happens in my fantasy world.

This hasn’t happened to me. I wear all sorts of makeup looks, mostly on the natural side. But sometimes I’ll go weeks without wearing it and sometimes I’ll wear it every other day. I take great care of my skin so it’s not like people can tell a huge difference between my foundation-ed face and my real face. 

It doesn’t hurt to put a little on now and then. The crazy difference comes when you normally have so  much on that your face looks like a plaster mold.
Give makeup a try. I promise that it’s not a slippery slope that will lead you to having to wear it all the time. I wear makeup according to appropriateness. If I’m home all day, it doesn’t come on. If I go out, I put on “natural” looking makeup. If I have a dressy occasion, I put on more. It’s not set in stone that once you use, you gotta keep doing it.
Besides, it can be fun to experiment with makeup behind closed doors to decide what you like and what you don’t.

@my_favorite_song@xanga - lol, that’s just kind of weird

Apparently even when i do where make-up its not a big difference. I don’t wear it everyday and I don’t care. Apparently I look pretty today and I didn’t even put any on. So I guess it depends on the person and how they take care of their skin. If you have to use make-up to conceal something… then I don’t think its being well taken care of unless its like a birthmark.

yea, that’s why i don’t wear makeup too lol

This is why I don’t wear makeup I’m with you, special ocasions and I go crazy!

I’ve never been a make up person so I don’t really have this problem. 

However, I have gotten a bit more into cosmetics. I’ve learned how to put it on correctly but even then I still keep it to a minimum. When my boyfriend first started courting me he told me “I don’t really like make up on girls. See, you don’t wear anything and you still look pretty.”To which I had to tell him that I actually do wear some make up. However I do get help from my step mom. She’s a make up artist for Chanel so she showed me how to apply make up correctly. 

@Ashley Nicole Anders@facebook - Actually then you just kind of have proven my statement. I never said that scrubbing and cleaning was taking care of your skin I simply said taking care of your skin… and I never said everyone was the same. I have great skin. I take care of it in a way that works for me. My sister cannot do the same things I do because she breaks out. some of it is, yes, genetic and some of it diet… some peoples skin cannot be treated chemically because it will hurt. Everyone has a different skin type. There is no hidden things written in between the lines of my comment it means exactly what it states, please do not add your own words into my statement. i think that if you are using make-up to conceal something, then it is not helping whatever skin condition the person has.

It’s totally true. Even on days when I decide to “not wear make-up,” I still put on concealer and powder because otherwise I look sick.

I’ve only started wearing makeup recently but when I don’t wear it no one seems to notice.

I like how I look without makeup, but it is definitely a different look. I think once you’re out of school its a lot easier to not worry about putting so much on. I like wearing makeup, but on some days I honestly feel like I looked better before putting it on. I think that about a lot of people though, I really appreciate seeing people without a drop of makeup.

I used to never wear make-up either. Now I wear the natural kind which to me, doesn’t really make me look any different and there are some who really don’t notice it either. However, there are others who completely flip out complimenting me and asking me if I’m having a hot date or something because it’s something I don’t really do often.

I have varying degrees of make-up. If I’m sitting at home just taking care of the kids then you’d find me with no make-up, hair in a messy ponytail, and most likely still in my pjs. If I venture out on errands (depending on the errand) I might put a small amount of make up on. For work I go for a natural look, and if I go out somewhere nice I might get a little creative with my eyes but nothing crazy. But on Halloween my make up is going to look like a total slut. And it’s going to be hot lol

It doesn’t matter the amount of make up you put on or don’t put on. What matters is that you feel beautiful to yourself.

I think the graphic is true, especially for women who wear the full face of makeup regularly.  I don’t normally wear makeup to go to work, but I do when I go out, but I still try to go for a very natural look.  My friends who have seen me wear makeup don’t really comment, except maybe once when I tried a slightly more dramatic eyeliner look.

Yes.  I usually wear little makeup, just foundation and eyeliner, maybe a little blush.  The days I put on more eye shadow or more lip gloss, I’ve had people say, wow, you look so pretty with makeup!  And it’s like…uh, I wear makeup all the time…and does that mean I looked ugly before!? Hurmpf!

I can see some truth in this theory, so to avoid it, on typical days, I only reshape my brows, conceal some spots, and put on mascara.
That way, when I don’t wear make-up, people don’t think I’m sick or whatever.
But it gives me enough confidence while feeling true to myself.
And when I DO put on more makeup, people are wowed!

I look bad without it, I just do. 

I don’t wear makeup unless it’s a special occasion, and even then it’s limited to foundation, eye liner, eye shadow, and MAYBE blush. 

I wear make-up almost everyday, not a lot though. And even on the days when I don’t when make-up, nobody really notices.

I go back and forward with wearing make up and not wearing it. No one ever comments on it. I only wear mascara though and my eyelashes aren’t light as it is so when I go without it doesn’t make a huge difference.

I don’t wear make up either, so I’ve never had to go through the cycle portrayed in the picture.

For me it’s never been a problem. I’ve heard that I would look prettier with make up, but I just shrug it off. I’ve never had to worry about washing my face before bed or getting up early to “put my face on”. I don’t spend a lot of time getting ready. One of my friends said she feels hideous going out in public without at least mascara on. I never wanted to feel that way, so I just never gave myself that chance: I didn’t wear make up.

I’ve come to embrace the person I see in the mirror. If I have bags under my eyes, hey, it happens. If I have a zit, whatever, hormones always do crazy stuff to my skin. I don’t want to enhance my eyes or emphasize my cheek bones or anything.

My husband fell in love with me without ever once seeing me in make up. I have no one else to impress and I wouldn’t care if I did. I don’t like make up and I see no point in me, personally, wearing it. Good luck to those of you who do. Some of the artistry I’ve seen on the faces of my friends makes me wonder what they could do with a real paintbrush.

i dont wear makeup either and i feel the same way. i dont want to have to deal with putting it on, and if i start wearing and dont put it on then everyone will notice. i used to wear it so when i didn’t put it on i felt weird. 

i love makeup and i feel better wearing it lol 

Well, it kind of depends really. I noticed that girls I see who wear subtle make up don’t look that different without any make up. Girls who wear a lot are going to look completely different without it. For me, I wear make up, but not really that much. I suck at make up application, so even if I try to cover up blemishes, it’s not really going to make much of a difference since none of it is really that covered up. My skin tone pretty much remains the same when wearing make up compared to not and eyeliner doesn’t seem to make a huge difference either since it’s not much and it usually wears off mid day anyway. So I guess in my experience, wearing some make up won’t result in you looking totally different without it.

It works the other way too.  When you wear it after weeks and weeks and weeks of never wearing it all of a sudden people can’t figure out why you suddenly look so fantastic.

I don’t wear makeup. But I have seen this, and it’s real.

Someone told me that it’s because wearing make-up wear down your skin and what not or something, so the skin looks bad or something and that it causes wrinkles faster. I don’t know. You could get it straight it you googled it probably.

I’ve never had the desire to wear it. You know. Just didn’t. I think it’s sad that so many girls can’t feel pretty without it. I’m who I am, no need to cover myself in makeup….like a push up bra for your face.

Anyway.
I’m also alergic to EVERYTHING and it causes’ me to flare up in psoriasis, so I deff. will never start now.

But I never wanted to.

bahaha. I love that the ‘no makeup’ has a gap in the eyebrow. That’s so accurate. xDDDDD

I think it depends on the makeup. I know some people who looked odd when they stopped wearing makeup because they wore a natural look but others look better without the makeup because they cake it on so much. I rarely wear makeup and if I do it’s heavy eyeliner so no one has ever mentioned anything to me. I also think it may have to do with how makeup affects your self-esteem. If it helps it, yeah, people will notice and say you look worse because you’ll feel worse without it and project that. If it is neutral for you, people may be neutral about it. But I’ve noticed that a lot of girls who say they get these comments also use makeup to make themselves feel better about themselves.

i’ve noticed on myself that i look a little plain without makeup.  i wear it so much so if one day i’m not wearing it, i see the difference but it’s also not like i wear a ton of makeup.  i go pretty light on the makeup unless i’m going out for drinks with my friends or hanging out at a lounge at night.  most guys don’t even notice it when you don’t wear make up.  i know for sure that i’m really concerned about how i look and how i present myself bc sometimes image is important so of course i’m going to notice if i’m not wearing makeup.

lmaoooo.
right? you look tired.. are you sick? lololol.
I ususally wear minimal make up so I’ve never gotten that. I usually wear “too much make up” when I put on a darker color than I usually wear or put on eye liner?? lol.

Same. I never wear makeup. I look FINE AS HELL without it. But I do see girls who paint it on every day and then if I see them without it, it’s really noticeable because all of their features were so enlarged or accented before that they look pale and tired and sick. IT IS TRUE! Not for everyone, perhaps, and I guess it depends on how much makeup they usually wear, but some girls wear a freakin ton. I don’t really understand why…. Boys don’t like it and it’s a bitch to put on and take off lol.

my eyes are gray and without make up they just remain this lifeless dull gray color, but if I wear colored eyeliner they tend to look a lot more exotic and shift from a dull gray to a preferable blue or a green.

Not to mention that I can’t stand how I look without make-up.

I’ve stopped using foundation so heavily, and use more of a tinted moisterizer now, but I still have to have some kind of make up on .. usually. Sometimes I go out without it, who cares if people think I look ‘off’ that day haha. But I love putting makeup on, it’s fun to me and I never mind it.

I haven’t worn makeup all week and have felt awesome/fantastic about it! I feel like it lets my personality shine through, and my friend even said “whoa your eyes look so blue!” That cartoon is absolutely hilarious though. I feel like “you look tired/sick” is such an annoying thing to me. It’s a nice way of saying “wow you look bad”.

i wear light makeup to even the skin tones on a daily basis, sometimes a sheer, lightly colored lipgloss – if i’m going to the store real quick or something i don’t wear any (my cheeks are naturally rosy, and i usually have pretty clear skin). usually don’t wear eye shadow or lipstick unless on special occasions – so when i do use it, people notice a difference, but they always say i look really nice with it. i prefer the natural look, mostly prolly because i’m lazy. it only takes me a couple of minutes to put on some concealer and loose powder. the only time i ever used eye liner and mascara was for senior pictures and a wedding i was in. i have thick, long lashes so i dont really need it. and, i’m lazy.

i have never had anyone tell me i looked different or sick when i didn’t wear any make up. when i do wear make up, i keep it very natural and light, though i will use concealer to cover redness and stuff like that. my husband can’t tell the difference between when i am or am not wearing makeup, only if he gets really close and looks at my eyelashes. lol

its the opposite for me. I don’t wear makeup ever, and then when I do people are like “OMG are you wearing makeup?!” when all I did was put on a little bit of mascara and eyeliner.

its embarrassing, but I want to try to start wearing makeup a little bit more..

Yes! If I don’t wear eye liner and mascara people will ask if i’m tired and crabby.. 

what bullshit. have we really been conditioned to think a woman does not look normal unless she has plastered herself in chemicals.

never wear makeup, don’t need it.

One of the reason why I won’t wear any make-up is because I want people to like me for the way I naturally look. I don’t want everyone to fall in love with a made up face and then dislike the way I look without make-up on. If I do wear make-up I just wear colors that are close to my skin tone, so I don’t look too different when I don’t put it on.

I get this when I wear light makeup, but nobody thinks that I’m sick when I don’t because I don’t wear makeup regularly. 

I think exactly like you!

Do not start wearing makeup unless you can tattoo it on.

:’( regret.

I think you’re being a bit silly.  My wife is beautiful, but she looks good with or without make-up.  It’s kind of a different beauty, IMO.  She’s the beautfiful homebody without it, and when she wears make-up, it gives her a different look of class and sophistication.  I wouldn’t say one is better looking than the other.  But then again, I have a little bias in there with her being the wife and all.

Though I have seen some people who are absolutely hideous without make-up….

i don’t wear makeup on a regular basis, mostly due to laziness, but also because i’d rather have people see me everyday as how i actually look and have them go, “wow, look at her” when i do wear makeup, rather than putting on my face everyday and having people think, “oh god she looks awful, i wonder if she’s sick” if i’m running late or whatever and don’t have time. 

I think I look super-sleepy without eyeliner. And when I first started wearing it, people would ask me if I was half African-American, half Asian. IDK if my family has any Asian descent, but my mom and I do have the same semi-slanted eyes….you know, our eyes look sort of closed when they’re fully open.

I wear loose powder and mascara… that’s it. My fiance claimed he couldn’t tell a difference of when I was and wasn’t wearing makeup (which was really just at night). So one day I didn’t wear make up at all and asked if he could tell… of course he could! He can’t tell when I AM wearing makeup but can tell when I’m NOT wearing makeup lol!!!!

I do the same thing that you do, for the same reasons. I hate wearing
makeup because I find it a hassle to wash off, and I don’t want people
to get used to seeing me with make up on. I don’t see anything wrong
with letting people see our own natural beauty.

I do not wear makeup but this happens all the time to people I know who do. Its sad. I’m so glad I don’t wear makeup.

I used to wear makeup most days, then I stopped all but maybe once or twice a week.  When I DO wear makeup now, my coworkers ask me about the hot date I’m going on later, or ask me who I’m tryna impress.

o_O

I apparently can’t wear make up just to wear make up anymore.

If i don’t i look like i haven’t slept for a week, and been playing outside in dirt, because i have a weird yellow and greenish skin tone

A girl in my class gave me that impression. I saw her without makeup one day in class and was like “wow, she looks rough”. She looked fine without, but because she was very pale and blonde, I guess her face just popped less and she looked tired.

I wear glasses all the time, thicker blue rimmed ones, and I think I look more tired because my under eye circles are more obvious when I wear my contacts. That’s when the under eye concealer comes out.

I used to wear tons of make up and then I spent almost an entire summer without make up because I didn’t see any one for so long. I got used to seeing myself with no make up and the first time after that, I put on very little make up and liked it. It’s more about what I’M used to seeing than what other people do. No one really cares how much make up we wear and it shouldn’t matter. 

i think the “you look sick”thing when someone doesn’t wear makeup, really only applies to those who wear makeup all the time, then you see them without it, and think they’re sick or something – I don’t know.

but I do agree that natural makeup looks better than a full face/none the majority of time

yes when i look different without makeup…to the point where i think people i know take a second to examine my face b/c they’re not used to it. I usually put on foundation, eyeliner and mascara- but I already think that’s alot of makeup. I can’t imagine putting on more everyday as part of my routine. I put on makeup everyday b/c honestly, I don’t feel confident in how I look without it- my skin is slightly discolored and my eyes sink back

I’m with ya on the reason NOT to wear make-up. It’s one of the main reasons I don’t. There are some girls who look a lot better with it on, though.

People have asked me if I got punched in the face. Without concealer, I look like I have two black eyes. But…with concealer, I think I look odd. I’ve been told that someone can “tell” when I have no makeup on. When I wear eye makeup I look a lot sexier. 
@school_geek_oddball@xanga -Sweating with makeup on is the WORST. I wonder how some people get used to it. 

Sameee here!!! :O
I thought I was the only one on this planet who doesn’t wear make up lol
All I ever put on my face is Shiseido lotion for hydration. I don’t even own an eye-liner or lipstick even though most people think those are essential stuff =/ And then again, I’d probably poke myself in the eye trying to apply eyeliner lol
And the only time I ever put on eyeshadow and blush was prom-night.. It didn’t even look that great.
Personally, I think I look so much better without make-up.. but my mom thinks I look more “enhanced” WITH make-up, so who knows..

I get the opposite effect…I almost never wear makeup so when I do people comment on it: “Oh, you’re wearing makeup!” “Did you get a haircut? New glasses?” “You look pretty!”

But I like that…I’d rather have that happen than wear it every day and have people think my normal face is ugly. 

@ohheybbyitscorixx@xanga - I am so glad you understand just how uncomfortable it is. Hahaha! It feels kinda’ hot and sticky. And it feels as if the colours are melting on my face. XD Even though it isn’t.

I only wear makeup for special occasions or photographs so I don’t get any reaction from people who see me without it. My face has good natural colorings so I just don’t need it.

I wear make-up and most of the time people don’t think I look that differently. I try to keep my make-up as “natural” as possible.

True. I didn’t wear any makeup to work for the first time and someone said, “You look rough”. Though the women (most women in my profession don’t wear any or at least no more than mascara it seems) who never wear it don’t receive those comments. It’s not that my face is so terrible without it’s just that everyone gets used to the smoother appearance and there’s a shock value when under eye circles and veins on my eyelids are apparent. The contrast causes the confusion… and the insults. :/

Absolutely True!

I usually just wear “natural makeup” and go full on for special occasions or just when i wanna look hot. Some days I do get lazy in the morning and only wear powder to reduce shine..so no one ever has said to me that i look sick or wierd.

this has been my fear. i have blonde hair and therefore, light-colored eyelashes. i used to pretty much always wear black mascara and some black eyeliner. nothing drastic, but it makes my eyes stand out more by making my eyelashes visible. i’m starting to wean myself off though. i don’t want to wear it all the time because then i look sick without it, but if people are used to seeing me both ways, it’s not a big deal. now if i’m just going to class or babysitting or hanging out, i don’t bother, but i still wear it all the time when i go to church or work because most of them always see me with mascara. i’m working on being comfortable without mascara at church and work too, but it’s harder. although i did go to a church youth event today without any..

oh and i still wear foundation and blush all the time because i still get acne and that stuff doesn’t take much effort/time to put on anyway.

I really enjoy makeup. I have blond, sparse brows, too, so when I don’t define them I feel like it makes me appear to be about 14. But I go for the more “natural” look, and I’ve still been told by friends, “I love how you don’t wear that much makeup! It looks nice!” When really I’m wearing eyeliner, mascara, face powder, lip balm, concealer… I guess I am going for the more natural appearance, though, so I must be doing it right.

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - Yeah, that’s just plain rude. The gloves are off if someone’s going to critique the way I like my makeup. I would respond the same way.

I don’t know, I don’t wear make up, unless it’s a special occasion and then it’s only eyeliner.

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this goes without saying, obviously it’s true . but at the same time i’m tired of girls who don’t wear make up on a regular basis saying “oh well i’m pretty without make up and girls who wear it every day must have low self esteem.” STHU, that’s not true all of the time . people wear make up for different reasons – & of course you’re going to look different with and without it – isn’t that the point?

Might have been the crowd i hang with,
but if I’m wearing a lot of makeup( for me this means mascara, eyeshadow, lipstick and blush, no more than that but bright lipstick) they say I look sexy (i think it’s the lipstick, the guys I hang with like bright lipstick),
If I wear natural makeup (mascara) I look beautiful.
If I wear no makeup I look cute.
so I think I disagree with this however heavy foundation or orange tinted foundation makes girls look like a space alien as well as clumpy heavy mascara or mascara on the bottom eyelashes. the rest doesn’t matter. 

Yes.  And it’s really annoying.  There are some days that I don’t want to wear makeup because there’s really no need to because I’m working or whatnot.  Those days, people say I look sick and tired and like I just rolled out of bed before coming to work, even if I’ve been up for hours.  

I’ve started wearing it even on the days I don’t feel like wearing it just to avoid comments and assumptions that I just woke up when I didn’t. 

I haven’t gotten any comments about not wearing makeup, but I used to be a very minimal makeup sort of girl.  I wear makeup every day now, but it’s only eyeliner, a little concealer under my eyes, and I shade in my brows.  This one girl I work with definitely looks better with makeup on. She has really bad skin (splotchy, spotty, wrinkly) so when she doesn’t have it on, she always looks sick.  I guess it just depends on what you have to cover :/

the key to not wearing any makeup on the days you don’t want to put makeup on, and have people NOT tell you that “you look sick, are you ok?” is that you wear a tinted moisturizer…that way you get rid of any of the redness or discoloration you’re talking about, you don’t have to put any other makup on, and people stop telling you that you look sick.

Oh this is so very true. It’s hard to go a single day without makeup. When I don’t wear makeup I feel like most strangers treat me differently. (In a negative way like they want to push me around). But for some reason older women are really nice to me when I don’t wear makeup it seems. SO I guess makeup makes me look more attractive and intimidating. And no makeup makes me look like I have low self esteem or something and people push me around or feel sorry for me. My theory. Pretty horrible I know.
I think that I look significantly better with makeup. I wear natural looking makeup most of the time, and people compliment me on how pretty I am. I wear mineral powder, blush, eyeliner, and mascara.
Of course the boyfriend claims he loves me just the way I am makeup or not makeup. He never has told me that I should wear more makeup or go put it on when I don’t have it on. But I’m never sure if he’s being 100% honest. Besides when I have my makeup all done he compliments how pretty I am, but at bed time when the makeup is all washed up I become “cute” and not pretty. And then he compliments on how “cute” I am. Not sure what it means or if it’s a coincidence. It might also reflect how horny he is because he’s never horny late at night. He gets too sleepy lol. 

I am not afraid to go makeupless though. I go somewhere without makeup at least once a week. Infact I’m going shopping right now w/o makeup.

Yeah, this happens to me — but I think I look pretty either way tbh. Without makeup I look a little older, and I don’t look as classicly beautiful, but theres a sort of wholesome look to it.. earthy. I’m positive people think I look better with it, because it does even out the skin tone and enhance my eyes more. They can think what they want, I honestly do it because I like it. 

I wear make up…but I won’t go balistic without it. I think the more natural the look, the better…

Funny, because I have this similar issue. I don’t wear makeup, unless i’m going to a party, and I personally think i look great without it because it looks very natural. Makeup is stressful, because if you wear it every day, soon you’ll be addicted to it, and then even you will think you look like crap without it. People notice , too. I know lots of girls who wear heavy makeup every single day, and soon it just becomes the norm for your eyes. Your eyes start to think its “the natural look” and once they wipe it all off they look completely different, not to mention – sick. My advice for people who wear makeup everyday is, tone down a little each day. Today you’ve got concealer, powder, blush, bronzer, eye shadow, fake eyelashes, eyeliner, brow makeup, mascara. Tomorrow just to concealer powder little blush no fake lashes, one layer mascara, one layer eyeliner, and just tone it down everyday until you achieve a base where maybe you just have liquid makeup some eyeliner and thats all, and no one will notice a drastic change because it was so gradual.

Basically, people get used to the ‘you’ that they see most. I used to wear makeup everyday when I was a teenager until I just cracked and threw out all my makeup and decided that I needed to start loving my face with way it was/is. People definitely noticed that I wasn’t wearing makeup. Why wouldn’t they? They had been used to seeing me a certain way for years. It takes a bit of time, but the brain has a wonderful ability to get used to these things and very soon your new face will become the ‘you’ that everyone, including yourself, sees. And also, people don’t notice the tiny little blemishes that you do. Nobody’s caring, so start loving your face.