Why Do Women Wear Make-up?

We women know that really men don’t like us wearing make-up. It creates a physical barrier between us and our beloved, we flinch away when they try to give us a hug or a kiss; decrying their affection as ruinous to the face that we have carefully applied. We spend a fortune on the same product, in slightly different shade. And leap onto the bus to go and get a tube of the latest mascara; which promises to give us eyes just like the starlet advertising it, despite the fact we know that can’t happen because she’s wearing false eyelashes.

Why?

We are always in two minds about life. For example; right now, half of me is thinking “why am I writing this? No one will want to read it” and the other half is thinking “Be quiet you fool! I’m trying to type!”

The front of our mind says that we wear make-up for individuality. With so many colours and types, we can create a person. We can make ourselves into sultry sirens or hellions that none would dare to cross.

Our hind brain knows though, that really the powders and pastes are security, shielding us from the world. It is a false sense of individuality that we bear; with make-up, we become one and the same with every other female.  Inside every woman is the fear that we look different. Whether she is 15 or 50, she wants to be the beauty on the magazine cover. Said stunner will of course have had 2 hours in a the care of a make-up artist and another with a hair stylist before posing for the professional photographer, with the final picture being sent to the computer room to be stretched and airbrushed before publishing, but this is what we set ourselves to look like.

We wear make up because we want to be the same, but different. We wear it because then we feel like there is nothing left that we can do and the world will not pick on us as there is nothing to pick on.

So gentlemen, that is why we wear make up. You may not understand it, but then when have you ever truly understood the complexities of women?

And ladies who read this; Beauty is a subjective experience. When someone next tells you your gorgeous, believe them; Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.