i genuinely can’t conceptualize regularly wearing makeup not messing with your perception of your natural face like. ok sure if people say that they don’t feel that way i take that at face value but honestly back when i tried to wear makeup semi regularly i would only wear some concealer and maybe mascara but i remember the more i wore it the uglier my natural face felt, the more obvious the bags under my eyes seemed, the more redness i saw around my nose, the uglier my eyelashes looked without makeup.
did anything physically change about my natural face? no! but concealing those things on my face inherently involved viewing them as flaws to be concealed, and the more i did that & saw my face “corrected” & got used to that the more those parts of my natural face felt like something gross and bad.
whenever i hear someone describe makeup as “putting my face on” i flinch – that phrasing implies that Your Physical Face That Is Attached To You isn’t your “real” face and the implications of that perspective are so profoundly unsettling
