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Removing the Mask: Two Weeks Without Makeup

What changed in my life while going without makeup for two weeks?  Surprisingly little.  Not a single person made a comment to me about looking “tired.”  No one treated me any differently.  People continued to be kind, caring and concerned in the way I know most humans to be on the average day.

The only thing that really changed for me is that when I looked in the mirror, I didn’t love my face. This sounds bad, but I wasn’t like, “Ugh, I hate myself. Why do I look like this?” It was more, “Yeah, I don’t really dig this right now.” And when I walked away from the mirror, the thought didn’t follow me around, didn’t nag me, didn’t even occur to me to be honest.

This is surprising considering that had I never stepped foot in front of a classroom or gone to a professional meeting without my safety blanket- concealer, blush, mascara and eye shadow. I did both of these things five days into the two weeks, and there was literally no difference between that day and any other.

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