Okay, so today was the first day of what I am calling my “Face Fast”. I have decided to go for 7 days without putting any product on my face. This means no makeup, no base, no concealer, no moisturizer, no toner, no NOTHING…
I am allowing myself to wear lipbalm, because if I don’t my lips get all chappy and gross, so thats okay. But I justify it because lips aren’t the same type of skin as the rest of my face so thats what I’m doing. 
Anyway, today was the first day. It is almost embarrassing how difficult it was to get out the door without doing it. As I looked at my naked face, I seriously felt almost ashamed that this was the face I am presenting to the world today. It was bad. Why should I feel obligated to wear makeup? And the truth is, people often think I DON’T wear make up. That is to say, that even though I wear make up to work everyday, it is seriously light and natural, meant only to cover blemishes and open my eyes. On the weekends, I am pefectly comfortable sweeping some lose powder on my face, and a few swipes of mascara only. But today, nada.
I don’t know if it makes me angry, or if it makes me laugh that all day, 4/5 people I ran into at work (which is a high school, by the way) asked if I was either a) sick? b)tired? or c)angry?
Why must I be in some state of disarray just because I don’t have artificial colorization on my face? To be honest, I am pretty surprised how much it irritated me. I guess our society has just really decided that makeup makes a “put together woman”… I don’t know.
Someone today at work actually made the comment that I looked less “professional” today… isn’t that interesting? That from the outside, I look less prepared/capable of doing my job because I don’t have any makeup on. I found that intriguing.
It was pretty funny though when I told my students, because I said, “Hey guys, I’m really sorry to have to do this to you, but I’m not wearing makeup all week… so, sorry about that.” They laughed, and said they couldn’t tell the difference… little punks.
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Someone ACTUALLY told you you looked “less professional”??? WHAT.THE.FUCK?!
That’s just mean and completely uncalled for, right?!
I never wear any make up ^_^
It’s mostly because of my glasses; it’s really hard to put on make up without glasses when you can’t see your face, or with glasses when you have to “dodge them”. I have lenses but I don’t use them often (I’m a bit lazy about it).
Seriously though, I can understand people telling you you look tired or sick because they might be worried about you, but telling you you don’t LOOK professional… What a jackass!
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Yea, I have to agree with Lola (The girl above me)…I can understand people telling you, you look tired or sick because they might be really worried about you, but saying you don’t look professional is just really fucked up….You know after a shaved my head people used to tell me you are a girl, girls don’t have their head. I told them this is me and if you don’t like it fuck off…so its your decision not to wear make-up and it was my decision to shaved my head…so fuck what they say..plus to me you don’t even need make-up..your perfect the way you are
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