Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!!!

So a couple of months ago I was talking to a close male friend and decided to tell him about my love of makeup and how I really enjoyed experimenting with it and trying new things. His response to this was why do girls wear makeup, I think they are pretty enough without it?  This was such a weird and different thing to hear from a guy of my age and got me thinking about why I wear makeup and how it makes me feel. 

I started wearing the odd bit of lipgloss or lipstick when i was about eight or nine, but this was never a daily occurrence and only when i was going out somewhere special or wanted to wear some. However just like every other girl I know, I began wearing makeup on  a daily basis in about year eight to year nine at school, which is about twelve to thirteen years old. I know many people think this is a bit young for it (Certainly my dad was one of them) but I think I just started wearing it  because everyone else around me was. To me it felt like I would be considered weird if I didnt wear any makeup. Even though it wasnt as much makeup as i wear now ,only a bit of mascara, blusher and sometimes even eyeliner, in a way I still felt special when I wore it, different to when i didn't wear any. And from there my love of makeup grew and grew.

I think that makeup is such  a love of mine because if i am having a bad skin day or i look tired I can hide it. A simple bit of concealer means I dont have to show people that I am stressed or haven't slept well. I just look my normal self. And to me this is a positive thing. 

Makeup is also a confidence booster. People may consider this a weird thing to say, but I believe it is true, Days I do venture out the house without makeup I seem to bow my head down and just feel like I look aweful. However days I have taken the time to apply makeup and make myself more presentable I feel much more confident and alive. I feel like People look at me and actually see what I want them to see, and not a girl who hasnt made an effort that morning. 

So in answer to his question all I have to say  is that I wear makeup because I want too, and not because anyone else makes me. It is the thing that makes me happy and makes my day more enjoyable and run smoothly. Men may like women who wear makeup or women who don't wear makeup, this is up to them. However I am not doing this to please a man, I am doing it to make me happy 

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