Not Doing Makeup As A Teen
“I believe that all women are pretty without makeup, but the right makeup can be pretty powerful” — Bobby Brown
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Dear readers,
Hi there, I’m a twenty-year-old girl who recently got into makeup.
I want to clarify something: I don’t think there’s anything wrong with makeup and playing around with makeup at any age; the problem I see here is using makeup as a mask. For me personally, as a teenager, I struggled — still do — with a lot of insecurities. I had acne-prone skin, and it didn’t help that I was a picker and would pick and pop my pimples to the point where it’s bleeding and had now turned into a scab. I did not look cute and was like this for about four/five years. The one good thing that came out of it was that I was so used to my skin riddled with pimples and scabs that it became normal, I was still insecure about them but not to point where I hid away from it.
As I got older, my skin started cleaning up, and I slowly got into skincare; I began to feel more confident. What I liked about this graduation into confidence was that I felt confident with my bare skin and not because I was wearing makeup or anything like that. I became more comfortable and confident in my skin, and when I got interested in makeup, I always liked the more natural-looking makeup. Don’t get me wrong, I love adding colour and playing around with eyeshadow — my favourite thing to do, eye makeup — but now I see makeup as a way to highlight my features versus changing or hiding.
I think it’s important to find the reasoning behind doing something. For example, makeup is a great way to get creative, or it can be an outlet for many people, but if you do makeup to impress someone, fit in or hide/change features because society told you, that’s not a good reason. Make up in of itself, it not a problem, I think the way people use it is the issue. If you like doing full-face makeup every day, that’s great! It’s your face, your choice, but I hope you are doing the full face of makeup for yourself because you like it and not because of outside forces.
Not doing makeup as a teen had helped me with some of my insecurities with my physical appearance, and I became okay with how I looked and came to like it. I needed that to get to where I am today. As a teenager I compared myself constantly to everyone else, I did things because other people were doing it and I copied everyone. I changed who I was so many times that I had no idea who I was for about three to four years. I was easily impressionable, and I would do anything to fit in. I was wearing a mask that changed whenever I was with different people. Had I gotten into makeup then, it probably would’ve made my sense of identity so much harder to find. I would’ve done makeup for all the wrong reasons and made my insecurities worse, and I wouldn’t be who I am today.
Today, I look more natural while playing around with eye shadow. My technique is horrible, and I make a weird face whenever I use my eyelash curler, but I have fun doing it. I like to learn about the different products and experiment with the colours or looks because I like them. The thing in makeup I struggle with the most is eyeliner and getting my eyelashes to stay curled. I have hooded mono lids and very Asian features, so my eyelashes grow straight out and don’t hold curls very well. I changed my eyelash curler and tried different techniques, but nothing worked. If you have tips, let me know because I would love to learn!
Thank you for reading; I hope you have a fantastic day or night whenever you’re reading.
A.B.💜
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