Someone once reproached me for wearing makeup many years ago, I still remember his words and took them with me for several days until after much thought I decided to let them go because they were not useful to me, his words hurt me.
I understand that many people do not like wearing makeup and think that a woman is prettier and natural in a "soap and water" kind of face, but I personally love to decorate my face with cosmetics, I find it fascinating, wonderful and magical, specially magical.
I'm not an artist, so the closest thing that I have to paint on a canvas is my face, I have become an endless number of times in various women: The seductress, the romantic, the one that looks hardworking and decisive, the natural girl, the feline and many, many more.
I think for all women who love makeup, undoubtedly getting dress up and paint our faces is not just a ritual that we love, it is partly a catharsis that helps us feel feminine, beautiful and at the same time is a way to give love and nurture our self-esteems.
All those women in whom we become when we paint our lips (or when we choose a new eye shadow, a new blush, bronzer, etc ...) are ourselves just looking from different optics.
We must get out of our heads that "mental retrograde chain" that a woman should look and present herself in a specific way, because no woman in this world is the same and there are no standards that can define us, each and every one of us are different, some may enjoy to fix or dye their hairs, others however may feel free to express who they are with their clothing and accessory choices, and there are other like me who like to paint their faces and just get out into the world.
All of those are just ways of expressing who we are, ways to feel alive, to celebrate the diversity that women have and feel inside us.
