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as a woman, you need to literally rewire your brain to value comfort and practicality and things that are actually good for your body and mind, and you cant do that unless you free yourself from the things that arent
you dont have to wear heels… you literally never have to wear heels
Not shaving and not wearing make up are literally nonbehaviors. They’re a complete lack of action. But doing nothing is considered masculine because men are the only ones who are allowed to just be.
Instagram ads are like here is a sexy feminist razor and a sexy feminist push up bra and sexy feminist leggings to enhance your sexy feminist ass 🙌🏽 if you support women please remove your body hair and get your tits out immediately!
No need to add onto this post saying “but if you love to do these things, do you! If it makes you happy to be oppressed, that is good!!” bc guess what, and you’re gonna hate this: nobody exists in a vacuum where they just naturally enjoy forcefully ripping out hairs from the follicle or putting questionable and expensive products on their skin in order to be seen as presentable. I know you THINK you love it, but if nobody ever told you to or gave you that first idea to start changing yourself to be sexy and consumable…… would you be? If patriarchal standards didn’t exist, would you actually find pleasure in spending extra time and money on altering your appearance to achieve Eurocentric and heterosexist beauty standards? Are you GENUINELY happy with putting on makeup and a push-up bra and shaving and waxing or are you happy with the way other people treat you when you do it?
instagram be like: get a nose job, hoe out, do some squats, lose weight, buy skinny tea, buy fenty beauty, buy a kylie lip kit, get your summer body, get engaged, get pregnant, lose the baby weight, dedicate yourself to sex and beauty and men and makeup and your man, shave your eyebrows off then draw them back on-
right pals i cannot stress this enough: unfollow celebs. unfollow influencers. follow artists. follow painters. follow people who plant flowers in pavement cracks. follow bopo activists with similar body types to yours. follow your favourite restaurants and cafes to check out what they've added to their menus. follow comedians. follow accounts that post positive memes. follow cute dogs and cats and hedgehogs. follow tattoo artists. follow shops that make ethical clothes. follow people who paint murals on the walls of buildings. follow environmental and lgbt+ and blm charities. follow authors. follow poets. follow second hand book shops. follow bakers. follow film reviewers. follow tags for countries and cities you'd like to travel to and your favourite books. then like the hell out of all those posts so that's what your explore feed starts showing you. instagram can be so much more than we've let it become. it's a platform for photos and there are far more things out there to see than "perfect" (photoshopped) bodies
I CANNOT stress how important this is for your mental health, confidence level, and self esteem.
methinks….people underestimate how makeup is an actual real psychological trauma and im not being hyperbolic. being incapable of seeing your bare face in the mirror w/o being shook to your core and spiralling into a chain of negative emotions that ruins the rest of ur day? viscerally fearing being observed w/o makeup so much it informs how and when and IF you dare to move in public spaces? how many women fear intimate relationships bc they cant stomach the thought of someone seeing them w/o makeup? being so alienated from your own body that either exposing it or being exposed to it renders u depressed disturbed and disgusted sounds like textbook trauma responses to me
this post shot me in the stomach with a sawed off shotgun.
This is a major reason why I don’t wear makeup. All the girls and women around me growing up were too afraid to go out in public without it on. And I was like, no one sees this as a problem?
Me: I am a stable person
The guy next to me: *starts putting on nail polish*
Me: *intense internal screaming*
Homophobes/Transphobes/TERFs/SWERFs fuck off this post isn't for you
as someone went from wearing makeup everyday two years ago to someone who never wears makeup now, two things have happened:
1. I actually sincerely, genuinely prefer the way I look without makeup more than with it. Nowadays I don’t think a lot of people realize that the more often you wear makeup, the more foreign your face will look to you without it, and vice versa. I’ve gotten to a point where my bare face feels the most me.
2. When I do wear makeup, it’s actually fun! Because I’ve decided to give up on concealer and foundation and contouring, it really becomes more about the artistic expression. It’s fun to wear bright orange blush, glittery highlighter, and pastel eyeshadow. Makeup should be no different than a kitschy accessory, or a fun outfit.
I actually highly recommend any of you do the same, especially if you’re someone who does wear makeup everyday (and if that’s the case, I challenge you).
Start by going a couple days, not during the weekend or a time you know you’ll be home, without any makeup at all. Go for a week. Then two weeks. Then a month. Go to work, go to school, go to the store, go out to dinner, hang out with your friends.
And here’s the most important part: whenever you see your reflection, smile.
Doing this not only helped me feel like makeup was not necessary to feel presentable (something that I thought I already believed but internalized more of a dependence than I’d thought) but also helped me to have a positive association with my own face! I hope this can help motivate people that want to be less dependent on makeup and more comfortable in their own skin!
*terfs don’t interact!!*
oh can I also just say???
I am 21 now, and I started wearing makeup regularly when I was around 13-14. I’m going to guess most of the women that wear makeup daily could say the same.
So when you think about it, the majority of makeup-wearing women have not seen their true, unfiltered, makeup-free Adult Faces.
Like yeah, you see what you look like when you take your makeup off at night. But unless you go at least a month without it, you haven’t really seen your face. You haven’t seen your face without yesterday’s eyeliner still sort of smudged. You haven’t seen how clear your skin could potentially be. You haven’t seen all your freckles on your cheeks when you smile. You haven’t seen how alive you look when your cheeks and nose get flushed. You haven’t seen all the beautiful colors the hyper pigmentation add to your face. I am an adult, and I’m just now finding out what I look like.
This is not about Kpop but I have strong feelings about this so here goes:
Stop 👏 telling 👏 people 👏 what 👏 to 👏 do 👏 with 👏 their 👏 bodies 👏
I don’t care if you think makeup is a gender norm societal hierarchy patriarchy thing. To me, it is my way of expressing my creativity. I do happen to like how I look with makeup on, but I don’t wear makeup to impress anybody else. I do it because I like it. I just like makeup! I like skincare and fashion and nail polish! I like beauty products! Not because they make me look better but because they make me — me, personally — feel like I’m taking care of myself.
Please do not tell me to stop doing that.
Thanks.
hi I know you have good intentions but you honestly could not have missed the point of this post more.
Firstly, I was never trying to shame anyone or make people feel bad for liking makeup. I was also not telling people to never wear makeup again.
This post is about my personal experiences with makeup. Ironically, even when I wore a lot of makeup I would say some of the exact same things as you, “it’s to express creativity!” “it’s like self care, I feel more put together” “I’m just doing it for myself and no one else”. I’ve always tried to be progressive! I thought I wasn’t dependent on it!
But I was. Because the point of this post is that wearing makeup more often than when you don’t will affect how you perceive yourself. No matter what reason. Even if it’s to cover up scars, acne, or redness. Even if it’s because you’re trans and it’s to help you pass. Even if it’s for a job. Even if it’s just for artistic expression. “Good” reasons to wear makeup will still affect your sense of self no matter what, just as much as “bad” reasons. Your brain does not care.
All I’m trying to encourage people to do is keep that in mind.
**and once again, terfs do NOT interact jfc I can’t believe I need to say this multiple times**
shout out to women who don’t wear make up im in love with you all
Hey, if you are a woman who doesn’t shave and never wears makeup, I just want to let you know that you’re doing a great job. I can’t even count the number of times people have told me I look like a dog because of my hairy legs or called me ugly, gross, tired, etc. It sucks, but we keep being are authentic selves despite it all. I’m doing what makes me happy and I don’t give a damn what others think. So shout-out to all my other ladies who don’t give a damn.
Weaponized femininity is nothing more than glittery capitalism.
Your red lipstick isn’t made from the blood of 10,000 men. Your eyeliner isn’t sharp enough to puncture the patriarchy. And it sure as hell isn’t your fucking warpaint. Those items are wax and pigment (and Lord knows what else) that you paid anywhere between $1 and $50 dollars for that ends up lining the pocket of some white man who doesn’t need to do half as much as you do to be seen as acceptable in the business world. And this is coming from someone who wears makeup by the pound.
No one’s saying you can’t like makeup but stop trying to make it more than what it is.
“Recently, my son said to me after seeing a ballet on television: ‘It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it.’ And I thought, Are many grown-ups capable of such a distinction? It’s beautiful, but I don’t like it. Usually, our grown-up thinking is more along the lines of: I don’t like it, so it’s not beautiful. What would it mean to separate those two impressions for art making and for art criticism?”
— “59. it’s beautiful, but I don’t like it” from 100 essays I don’t have time to write: on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater, sarah ruhl
strange and weird that me not shaving my legs & leaving them in their natural fuzzy state and really never thinking about it is seen as an active choice, and maintaining nakey bald legs with careful weekly upkeep is seen as a default
My whole problem with the “I do makeup for ME! I’m EMPOWERED when I put on makeup!” discourse is that it completely erases the fact that women aren’t actually given the ability to MAKE that choice. It’s impossible to say that you’re doing it for self empowerment, or that “if it wasn’t so much fun I wouldn’t do it” because that’s just not true. Women who enjoy doing their makeup and women who don’t enjoy doing it both have equal pressure to wear makeup. Whether you enjoy the process or not, you will be taken less seriously as a woman, valued less, respected less, considered ‘unprofessional’ at work, etc. if you choose not to wear makeup. Men aren’t faced with the decision to get an extra hour of sleep or to be taken seriously. By writing it off as a cool empowering fun thing women do as an exciting entertaining hobby we’re just…. erasing the entire institution of makeup and of beauty standards that seriously harm women. If you enjoy doing makeup that’s great, that’s fine, and you should keep it up! But wearing makeup in the first place wasn’t ever your choice. We don’t GET a choice. I hate people saying “oh you don’t have to wear it! If you don’t like makeup don’t put it on!” As if I’m expected to just be cool with the way the world will treat me if I don’t conform to modern beauty standards! If you’re worrying about your eyebrows or lip plumpness or skin tone evenness that’s not you making a free willed cool decision to feel insecure and concerned about facial features that men never have to think twice about. That’s you thinking in a way you’ve been trained to think! And people wanna pretend that putting on makeup is Empowering… what the hell is empowering about making a choice that’s been forced on us since we were old enough to be seen as sexual objects lmfao… that’s bullshit that doesn’t empower me and having to give up valuable time and money and energy that men are never asked to give up makes me feel like shit!! It makes me miserable! It makes me dread every single morning because I know I’m gonna be putting forward all this bullshit labor just to exist and be taken seriously in my stupid body
A+ post. I would like to add, as well, that this sudden emergence of make up being cool and empowering for women comes directly from make up companies and Sephora, in particular. When I worked at Sephora they told us, in a hundred different and equally veiled ways, that the trick to getting people to buy something is to make them want it. When you need something you become restricted by the thing, but when you want something you’re exercising your free will. We were told we were “celebrating beauty” and making people comfortable in their own skin but in reality we were slinging $30 concealers at 15 year old girls who don’t understand that the skin around their eyes is thinner and therefore always darker. We were pushing eyeliner and mascara in “fun” colors to get young girls into make up under the guise of self expression. And the women who worked with me would go on and on about how their make up ritual was for them and how it was their “war paint” but then they would confess they felt uncomfortable leaving the house without a full face on. Most annoying to me was the short lived emergence of the naturally flawless skin trend. When I started at Sephora the trend was matte everything, full coverage foundation and strong controuring. It was a lot of make up to wear everyday and when summer came there was the biggest swing I’ve ever seen in trends where girls wanted BB creams and sheer foundations, no contouring, just the bare bones. From that we noticed a lot of people coming in for skincare. There were girls walking through the store with huge water bottles asking for sunscreen and face washes and Sephora was having NONE of that. It felt like a step in the right direction, taking care of your skin, protecting it from the sun, drinking water, and most importantly, it felt like the trends we’re moving away from “cover your flaws” to more of a self-care aspect (I’m very aware that the same motivations were behind the skincare trend but it wasn’t as sinister feeling). Sephora soon came out with the Celebrating Beauty focus where we were supposed to push the empowering effects of make up to people who weren’t in the store for make up. “Oh I see you’re buying a face wash for dry skin; let me show you this foundation that hydrates and gives a natural glow.” The goal was to get people buy make up in large quantities, not skin care. Sephora actively quashed teen girls’ attempts to take a step in the right direction by telling them make up is empowering. They are financially invested in the belief that make up is empowering.
damn this addition that was added to my post from my main blog… great commentary from someone who has actually worked in the industry and seen the way it works to harm women first hand
Toxic masculinity has become almost entirely a discussion of aesthetics, in which case I think toxic femininity is more worthwhile as a discussion - the kind of toxicity that seeps under your skin and causes you to perform in adherence to strict beauty regimes, shaving and waxing and getting hair treatments and expensive skin care and dieting and wearing shoes that hurt you (and can hurt you permanently) and hurting/deforming your body and getting injections to erase signs of aging or to plump up your lip size and bring unable to go to the corner store without makeup on and so on and so on.. My point is that 1. Toxic masculinity has lost its initial critique and has become about aesthetics wherein a man who is willing to dress somewhat femininely cannot possibly exhibit toxic behavior and 2. Is (heteropatriarchal, white supremacist, thin-idealist) femininity really something to put on a pedestal in contact to this aesthetic of ‘toxic’ masculinity? This is how people come to believe butches carry ideals of toxic masculinity because we like to fix cars and wear flannel while Straight Man #1747936 can wear a single earring and get away with astounding levels of misogyny
(Op was a terf so im stealing the post)
idgaf about men doing makeup… taking a tool of women’s oppression created by them and acting as though they’re God’s gift to the world for promoting the same shit they use to impede upon women’s self esteem
someone: an alarming number of young girls are being pressured to contour and highlight their faces so that they look 10 years older, which is already not great, and then they take all their selfies with an app that makes their faces slimmer and their skin lighter and their eyes bigger and this is MAYBE not great for their self esteem
a grown adult, somehow: makeup is a choice, IDIOT, and Snapchat filters are ALL for FUN, I don’t ACTUALLY wanna look like a DOG haha………. society is fake and kids can just CHOOSE not to be influenced by the things that are thrown at them 24/7!!! i am very smart
Tbh, the way some of you guys so voraciously defend against any and all criticism of the makeup industry just proves our point. It’s become such a big part of your identity and self worth the idea of accepting the harm it does is scary.
might be my prudish catholic upbringing jumping out but imho makeup companies shouldn’t name their products after explicit sexual terms
just my opinion but if the makeup industry is going to market towards young girls who haven’t even hit puberty yet and insist that they have hundreds of dollars worth of high end makeup then they cannot name their products things like ‘climax’ and ‘super orgasm’ or even make puns like ‘glow job’ or claim in bold letters that the mascara is ‘sex proof’ when these young girls have no idea what any of these terms mean and frankly they shouldn’t understand the meaning behind an eyeshadow called ‘daddy’s girl’ or a blush called deep throat it’s all part of the hyper-sexualization of young girls and it’s just getting worse and worse in this new age of instagram/youtube mua’s where girls as young as 8 years old are being pressured into having a beat face that makes them look my age
but that’s just my opinion
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