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The Naked Face Project
Lynne:
--- Quote from: milomorris on March 09, 2012, 04:49:46 pm ---Totally off-topic: are you a Quaker or something? I'm just curious. There are tons of them here in Pennsylvania. Almost all of the old Underground Railroad stops here were run by Quakers.
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Not really, Milo. I call myself a Quaker-in-Training, but I don't know that I will ever embrace it fully. Liberal Quakers do seem to be as close to an organized religion as I can personally feel OK about. There is an unprogrammed Meeting here I attend with some regularity and have done so for a couple of years. I have made some good friends there.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Lynne on March 09, 2012, 05:19:36 pm ---Not really, Milo. I call myself a Quaker-in-Training, but I don't know that I will ever embrace it fully. Liberal Quakers do seem to be as close to an organized religion as I can personally feel OK about. There is an unprogrammed Meeting here I attend with some regularity and have done so for a couple of years. I have made some good friends there.
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Interesting. I'm just the opposite...Quakers don't offer enough structure for my taste. LOL!!
But they do have a quite good reputation and history.
ifyoucantfixit:
I only started to wear make up and such when I was about 24 o25 yrs old. I didn't really feel the need for it, until then. I have always been blessed with a nice rosy complexion, and no real blemishes to have to cover. I did wear a light shade of lipstick and mascara however. I was working in
Las Vegas and was required to have a (costume,) and needed to look as one would expect for a person representing the casino. I was a camera girl, and took pictures of people on the casino floor. I had to feel that I was presented as the other girls were, and started to go to the hairdresser, once a week. I had always been very specific about that, for my whole life, (keeping my hair, just so,), and then applied all the appropriate makeup as well.
After a long time of doing that, I got so used to not having a plain face, that I would not even go to the supermarket without it. I did that for at least fifteen years. Finally one day, I just got tired of the daily cleansing, and moisturizing, and makeup applying, and just decided to slow it down. I had what I chose to call, "no makeup Monday." I just ducked my head and went out. Wherever I had to go, I just went. I felt like an addict just trying to make it through one day a week without it. It took some time, and I finally had gotten to the point where I could go for most days without it, and just used, when I was going out for a lunch or evening, or some other type meeting place. I have finally given it up all together, except for times when I have to see people I know, who are also going to be nicely presented. I have gotten to the point where, it takes so much longer to do it, because of the eyes not being as they were. It just seems that I went from doing it in no more than ten minutes, to a half hour and that is just too much of an effort anymore. I suppose, I could be considered lazy, but I really have gotten to the point where, I don't much care what others think, about that. I do it for myself. My husband could care less. He is fine with me bald faced.
I will never give up the shaving however. i have done it since I was about twelve, and I continue to do it now. If I do not do it, my legs itch so badly, when they start to get grown out. I just have to get out of bed in the middle of the nght to shave them, if it starts to bother me. I have not worn nylons or high heels for many many years now. I think they are so bad for your spine, and even though they make your legs look good, its just not worth the bunions and callouses that I have seen on so many even young womens feet. I am strictly a flats kinda gal. No foot surgery for me, thank you very much.
Berit:
I can only see with one eye. Born this way. So when I started to use makeup in my teens I had one perfect eye and one total mess! so I gave up with makeup. I never ever try now. No lipstic, just deodorant, some perfume (perfume is a must but just a little) and off I go!
Hair, hm. Never shaved a leg or an armpit, never had enough to bother. BUT after menopause I have started a mustash.....don't really like that so now I'm shaving my face....and it gets more......I'll look like Santa when I'm 80! :o :o :o :P >:( :laugh:
Mandy21:
This is an interesting topic that really got me thinking. I've never been a girly girl at all. At 46, I still don't really know how to apply a full face (concealer, foundation, blush, mascara, liner, shadow, lipstick) properly, and styling (if you can call it that) my hair has always been a battle of wills between my mind, and the mind of its own that it seems to grow on any given day. I would only put on the full face and hair treatment for the times that I'm seeing a friend or acquaintance in public, or when I'm going out on a date with a guy, or for a job interview. That's it. All the rest of the time, whether I'm alone at home, or popping up to the library or grocery store or pharmacist, I don't bother with a bit of it. In fact, they know my "naked" face, haphazard hair, and comfy oversized clothes so well that on the rare occasions I have to stop by one of those places on the way to or from a date, and they see me all dolled up and wearing nice clothes and jewelry, their jaws drop to the ground. Not because I'm a stunner by any means, mind you, but just because they're a little shocked that I "clean up" so well. At those times, when I look closely in their eyes, I swear I can see a thought behind them that says to them, "if she can make herself look that nice, why doesn't she do it ALL the time?". And that kinda irks me. The reason being, and I think Milo said it perfectly, because THAT doesn't define who I, as a person, am.
--- Quote from: milomorris on March 09, 2012, 04:47:00 pm ---Why? I think it was a matter of having a look that genuinely fit me as a person. My "over-produced" look was certainly aesthetically pleasing, but it didn't really represent who I was inside. So when I was sincere about my appearance, I attracted people who were sincere.
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If people are more pleased or more comfortable looking at me / spending time with me when I'm, in my mind, basically wearing a mask, then those people aren't really seeing ME, just as I am, flaws and all, inside and out. If they need a pretty and pleasing exterior, just how fast are they going to run when they get a good look at my interior?
Thanks for posting the article, Chrissie. I'm going to think twice now before reaching for that lipstick. ;)
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