The Diaries of a Fruitcake in a Half Baked World!

This is my daughter on her webcam.  She doesn’t wear make up, which is surprising to me. Neither of my girls wear make up.  I am amazed, coming from the generation that I am in and being around the make up I was around, that my girls didn’t feel the need to wear it.

When I was younger I would sit and watch my Momma put on her make up and wish I would be like her when I grew up.  She did the wigs and everything. I just loved it all.  I had the magazines that showed me how to put on makeup, etc… I did wear a lot of it.  I hid behind the make up.  I didn’t want people to see who I really was underneath.

I am so blessed that my girls don’t feel the need to put make up on. That they recognize their natural beauty without all the other stuff.  It is freeing. Why do we feel we have to wear make up?  I still wear it today but it’s a habit that I have had for over 20 years. It’s part of my life. Believe me, I don’t wear it like I use to.

I think the world of glamour and beauty is what caused me to want to do it. I wanted to look like those women in the magazines. I believe that is called envy, possibly. Plus we all know that men are visual. Women attract men by the way they look. I got my man. He likes me to wear make up when we go out to special events but loves me just as much without it. I do love the way my face feels when it is clean.

I asked my daughter why she doesn’t wear make up and she said that she knows that when she wears it, it clogs her pores and she wants her face clean. She doesn’t want to have big pores when she is older.  That is one thing that both my Mom and I have had a problem with, bigger pores. My Mom’s has shrunk some with age, as well as her height (Love you Momma) and I am using cleaning products to try and help with that issue.

Mally Beauty has a product that minimizes the pore appearance, which I bought and it does work: Perfect Prep Poreless Primer. It has a silky feeling and you don’t even know it is on.

If you haven’t thought about it, possibly wearing make up is second nature to you, think about it and let me know why you wear make up or don’t wear it. I would love to hear the different responses I will get.

I have always loved make up.  As early as I can remember I always sat in the bathroom and watched my Mom apply her makeup and wish that one day I would look like her. I started wearing it my freshman year in high school when I was 13 years old. At 13, she allowed me to start wearing foundation and a little lip gloss and eye mascara.  When I turned 14, I started wearing the eyeliner. I remember wanting my eyes to look like the women in the Cosmo magazines. So, I piled the blue eye shadow and blue eyeliner on.  (Not good when you don’t know what you are doing!)

I started off wearing the Cover Girl brand because it was something we could afford for a teen experimenting.  Talk about make up lines around the jaw line!  I looked like two different colors. (I have pictures where my face is white and my body is tan.)  I didn’t know how to blend.  As I got older my Granni introduced me to Merle Norman. I was breaking out really bad from the Cover Girl and we needed to find a good cleaning regiment for my face. So, Mom took me to a Merle Norman studio and I was taught how to apply beauty products. I wore it for years and one of the things that I heard a lot was it looked caked on.  My Uncle made the comment that he would love to take a butter knife and scrape all the makeup off. That is when I started paying attention to how much I was putting on.  I started wetting down the sponge I used to apply and it thinned it out some. I stopped breaking out but I looked like I was wearing makeup.

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