Makeup is defined as cosmetics used to accentuate or change your appearance. In good taste, makeup can make you look like a flawless version of yourself.  Sometimes girls opt for a little (or a lot) more and look way overdone.

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What’s up with that? Personally I believe the culprit is, as usual, the media. Most celebrites wear tons of makeup and are sometimes humiliated when spotted without it. In their business they have to wear all that makeup, taking pictures, shooting movies, regardless off all the photoshop done on them afterwards. They have to cover up every oversized pore, and conceal every pimple, vamp out their eyes, and plump their lips, because they are portraying an image. But it’s pretty normal to see girls walking down anywhere from the grocery store to grabbing a fast food meal with full caked on makeup. Specially if they work at certain makeup counters. I understand they’re trying to sell a product but is it a job requirement to advertise every item on their face? Don’t get me wrong, those girls have talent and do great looks, but personally sometimes they’re a little too overdone.

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Wearing too much makeup daily isn’t great for your skin either it needs to breathe.
I’m not being judgemental, I love makeup and wear it most if not every day, but I prefer accentuating one best feature and keeping the rest more natural. For example, if you have gorgeous lips wear your favorite shade of lipstick, liner and gloss and keep your eyeshadow bare or to a minimum. Stunning eyes? Play with shadows, eyeliner, mascara and keep the rest soft. Great cheekbones? Show them off with your blush blending skills. There’s no need to wear tons of foundation, heavy eyeshadow, dark lipstick, and sultry blush all at once, unless you’re going to an event or such. Its unbelievable how some women go to certain extremes as to waking up before their husbands to apply their makeup before the hub realizes they have a few freckles. It just seems a little too much, at least in my opinion.
Makeup is an art and a way to express individuality, it’s one of those things that make being a girl great but it shouldn’t have to conceal your face. It’s not much of a turn on for guys getting all that lipstick, foundation, and other products all over them, even worse not recognizing a girl when all the makeup washes off.

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Just remember ladies, makeup should be used to accentuate a woman’s beauty, not define it.