I am a feminist and I wear makeup. Although I also know feminists who don't. There are also macho women who have their faces washed daily and macho women who, like me, go through sheet metal and paint when they feel like it.
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Why am I telling you this?
Because I have found on several occasions that cosmetics are used as a way to discredit. “And if you are such a feminist, why do you wear makeup?” I have been asked.
They have even told me that makeup is something that women use to attract more men, but there is something that seems that no one has told them.
And it is that women put on makeup to please ourselves. I am not saying that it is not the case that I have ever dressed up more for having a date, but removing a tiny percentage, the rest of the occasions in which I do it are by and for me.
I like to put on makeup, it's that simple. I can't leave the house without the concealer and a hint of blush because without them I look like an extra from The Walking Dead (and let's face it, there are two things that nobody likes regardless of their gender: changing diapers and being seen with orc face of Mordor in the mirror).
I wear makeup because I feel like it and if I don't feel like it I don't wear makeup. But come on, I have yet to hear a woman in a cosmetics store asking for the infallible lipstick to conquer a man, but a lipstick that she can wear daily.
One decision is as respectable as another, because I already guarantee you that of all the feminist books I have read (and there are quite a few already) in none have I found the chapter in which they develop the incompatibility of makeup with feminism.
There is a case that I love to tell. I have a beauty journalist colleague who always comes to work gorgeously made up.
One day talking about it, she told me that she couldn't go out without makeup, that even if she wasn't going to cross paths with anyone, she wouldn't stop doing it, and why? Because putting on makeup amused her.
Because for her it is a pleasure to play with brushes, colors and eye pencils, because she has a good time.
I guess the bottom line is that I'm just as feminist in makeup. Of course I want equality, but what's the harm in having my Bobbi Brown Cherry Pink lipstick in my bag at the same time?
The best thing about feminism is precisely that we have total freedom when making decisions, whatever they are, regardless of the level of transcendence.
Filed Under: 2018, feminism, Makeup
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