ugh!! for a start that makeup artist shouldve been kicked to the curb................gives us a bad name it does...lol

i do wedding makeup all the time,and i get constant comments that they get me to do it,because i make them look so 'natural'...........dear god,there are many racoon stories out there know,i shudder!!

I've posted this before but it's too good not to post again:
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com

It's the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty... have a watch of the video. It's quite amazing.

When Piers and I got married I went for test makeup at a salon. It was HIDEOUS! I didn't even resemble myself, more a made up mannequin (with these over sized drawn on glossy lips too). Piers hardly recognized me. Now that's not what beauty is about!

i remember say'n gday to victoria beckham in a 24hour shop in london a few years back..no make up. just a real face.

make up..what we seek artificially is ours naturally is we live by mother natures laws... we cant break em..just break ourselves in the process.

ive worn skirts, blouses and stilletto's...but you wont see me wear'n make up.

a clean face is a confident face
dont feel pressured by the rat race
in the bin goes the goop
and your out of the female suppression loop

those vogue adds be sell'n sumth'n
you should be smell'n sumth'n
time to question what is encouraged
and believe that make-up be discouraged

what is a guy to say?
'please wash your face before my lips say gday'
keep it fresh, keep it raw
then our true glow comes out for us to adore.

when we were younger they said we need to look older
now we are older they tell us to look younger
same companies, same lies
as as always 'real eyes realise real lies'..

you aint no dipstick..
ditch the lipstick
foundation and eye liner
has us look'n like a coal miner

industrial waste on our face
just to win some imaginary beauty race
race conditions set up by beauty magazines
and touched up on computer screens

they say 'this is how to get a guy'
yet its just another corporate lie
marketing crew say'n 'sucker born every minute'
so better grab your make-up bag and BIN IT!

Oh and a little bit of beetroot on your cheeks makes a good blusher! true
When i was little i was obsessed with making makeup from crushed rose petals and berries etc, even smells nice!

hee heee...sorry,but im highly doubtful posh wouldve been out of the house without a lick of mascara....remember that makeup is very devious...can be extremely artfully applied so it LOOKS like you're not wearing anything....(whooooooooooooooooo look out...!!)

whether its beetroot or mulberries or blusher from a cosmetic container,isnt the false illusion still the same end result.....

hee hee off i go now...bye bye............*thwack thwack ...get out get out!!!*

Great posts everyone :-) Awesome poetry Harley as usual and I agree.  Makeup is big $$ business, no wonder companies flog it so much & attach so much 'pleasure' to wearing it, like u can have any man or that job you desire etc They're all just trying to sell us an emotion, a state change - happiness and makeup or the physical world doesn't equal happiness, mayb temporarily.  This is something I"ve had challenges with currently and in the past, I have never worn much more then just mascara but I find it very hard to let go of, I realise its the meaning I attach to makeup (sexy, beautiful, classy, happy, accepted ultimately loved)....will go makeup free one day this week & ditch it - thx harls
Thanks Sheryl for that dove link, its shocking the hypnosis most of society lives under.

some good points neetster..

and yeah im sure posh had some fake up on that day..but it wasnt the usual slathering.

my angst isnt with the individual as much..its more with the advertising that makes chicks think they need the product..

just like a certain person stopped cycling the other day near some wet concrete and wrote 'GO RAW VEGAN' with a stick.
the same person has been known to deface fake up adverts..

www.adbusters.org

I will never go without my mascara because my eyelashes are the same colour as my skin and I hate looking as if I don't have any.    The option would be dying them with the danger of going blind if the chemicals get in my eyes - I don't *think* so!!!

Or I could get eyeliner tattoed on, but it still wouldn't look like eye lashes.  I'm sticking with my mascara unless it gets completely outlawed LOL

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