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What actually matters about wearing makeup is: confidence and comfort. If one feels comfortable and confident after contouring their face then, we should do it, it is our style and our preference. And no one has the right to mock us!
There is a saying by a Roman playwright, Plautus, “A woman without paint is like food without salt,” and didn’t he hit the nail right on the head?
Let’s suppose, those fair cheeks would look so wonderful if it were to turn rosy with a highlighter and blush. Those dark eyes would be so mesmerizing with a little liner and mascara. The lips would cast a spell with a little dash of gloss or lipstick. Surely, it would.
People, generally, are sceptic towards girls who wear makeup.
Recently, there have been a lot of memes and jokes on social media on girls wearing makeup. They are getting trolled for farding [the act of applying makeup] and displaying their talent on different platforms.
So, why is wearing a good foundation or using primer a problem now?
Men say that they like natural beauty however, they always end up with artificially enhanced demeanour which is fine, no doubt.
After all we are all human, and it is our human nature that the first thing we actually notice about a person is their APPEARANCE and later on, we pay attention to the behaviour, character, thoughts and abilities.
Anyway, we are not here to talk about what others think about our makeup especially, the male counterparts, we are actually here to talk about what we, women and girls think about it.
What actually matters is to be confident and comfortable. If one feels comfortable and confident after contouring their face then, we should do it, it is our style and our preference.
It is just a girl’s choice, if she is putting some effort to enhance her existing beauty and conceals her blemishes. A lot of times, boys discuss with each other about their female friends like, “She is so gorgeous,” and there is some presumably naive guy who replies, “She surely puts on plenty of makeup to seem that pretty!
Yes! So what? She wears makeup along with her conviction to look more confident.
On the other hand, we see Bollywood stars donned in glamour most of the time, which makes them far more good-looking than their original non-glamourised selves and brighter than their real complexion.
The society accepts the gorgeously made-up images of celebrities and men go bonkers for actresses at one glimpse, yet, utter no mean statements hence, ordinary girls also should be appreciated for their makeup skills and interests.
Why should they face these scratchy comments of, “She looks like she has undergone plastic surgery, she looks extremely fair or makeup ki dukaan” etc.
Women don’t bother about men’s beard or long hairstyles. When a woman sees her partner without beard, sometimes they might feel, “My partner looks more of a school boy than an adult,” because men also look different with beard and without it. Right?
A woman using cosmetics doesn’t mean she needs recognition because even without it, she deems to be charismatic. Cosmetics only augments them to look more confident.
And, who doesn’t like to be elegant in this world? Believe it or not, we all crave to be considered as presentable. We all live to please this judgemental society at some point in our lives.
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Neelu Mahto holds a Master's degree in Commerce and a Bachelor's degree in Education. She is pursuing her career as a Salesforce developer in the IT sector. She believes that whatever we feel, read more...
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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