Face-off: Drop that mascara! (Editorial)
Girls wear too much makeup. You aren’t a Covergirl, so don’t act like it!
Who needs all this?
November 2, 2013
Why wear so much makeup and disguise yourself when there’s such thing as natural beauty? Think about the women way back when they didn’t have makeup. A little eye liner to feel pretty or a touch up to those short eye lashes. But seriously, why wear eye shadow up to your eyebrow?
One day, girls, we’re going to have that man of our dreams. Let’s not surprise them too much at that first sleepover with the morning breath, and with no makeup, because they’re so used to you covering your face with glitter and raccoon eyes.
Also, girls wearing too much makeup on happen to be late for school sometimes because of it. I believe that making a fool out of yourself isn’t worth being late to school. I don’t know, some girls find it appealing. But boys, they don’t want that in a girl. It’s not attractive in any way.
Nobody likes to cry, but do you girls realize how much of a mess it is to clean up whenever you’re done crying your other problems away? Plus, whenever you get out of the shower and start a new day, I’m positive that is left over makeup from yesterday, unless you spent a lot of money on a scrubber meant for makeup too.
Whenever some girls come into school, they decide to randomly not wear makeup. I mean, it’s most likely because they were running late that morning or maybe it was a rough night. But to be honest, it just makes your whole appearance different. You just look like a face drawn on an egg because we’re so used to seeing you cover up your natural beauty.
Girls need to understand that appearance isn’t everything. I can understand the clothes and the hair dye, but I will never understand the ones with 100’s of dollars’ worth of makeup sitting on their dresser at home.
Why put your face through so much pain? Give it some breathing time and let it see the sun. People deserve to know the real you, not a mask of makeup.
To read the other side of this argument, check out Face-off: No limit on makeup amount (Editorial)
Tell us what you think in the comment section: Is there such a thing as too much makeup?
Amira Williams • Jan 20, 2014 at 11:57 pm
I understand that the author is trying to emphasize “natural beauty” , but the tone of the article makes it seem like the author is patronizing and scolding girls who choose to wear makeup. Many individuals who wear makeup don’t wear it just because they’re insecure about themselves, or want to make themselves feel better. Many wear it because they enjoy the art behind applying and/or using makeup. It isn’t necessary to look down upon girls who choose to wear makeup or what is considered to be “too much makeup”. If they want to wear make up, and a lot of it, then that’s their prerogative and they shouldn’t be subjected to the negative opinion of others. This editorial is extremely contradictory because If “appearance isn’t everything”, then why is this article basically insulting girls on how they look or how they choose to look?
Jude • Nov 21, 2013 at 4:31 pm
I found this article to be rude and insulting. Just because someone wears a lot of make up doesn’t make them late to school, doesn’t make them look like a “face drawn on an egg”, and isn’t making them look like a fool.
Plus, girls don’t always wear make up to make them look better or to feel better about themselves, and I don’t think most guys care about if a girl wears make up or how much she wears. The author acts as if your appearance defines you and it doesn’t. Your personality is what matters and if any person, guy or girl can’t get over how you look and see that then they aren’t worth your time.
The way someone does their make up can be a form of expression and I know it is for me. It’s fun and I enjoy doing it. Whoever wrote this article makes a lot of assumptions, but phrases them as if they’re fact. Since it’s an opinionated piece, it should be written as such, but still should keep out things that are insulting and down right inaccurate.
Jessica Smith • Nov 7, 2013 at 12:47 pm
I feel like this article is unnecessarily harsh and full of incorrect generalizations. For example: “boys, they don’t want that in a girl. It’s not attractive in any way.” How does the author know this? Has she polled literally every boy ever to exist? I think with a little more tact this article could’ve been effective.