No, we don't mean naked naked, although that would lead to some interesting high school assemblies. We mean letting your face go nude, all footloose and makeup-free like. If you're anything like us, the most annoying part of your day, after being pried out of bed by a rather insistent, sadistic alarm clock, is having to make yourself presentable to the world at large. (This is why half of your bedraggled, grungy editors work from home in their pajamas.)
Part of this routine involves buying into the beauty-industrial complex that the media has so carefully constructed around us (don't you just love blaming the media?), and shellacking lotions, creams, powders, concealers, shadows, blushes, mascaras, liners, and just about anything that contains sparkles and/or lipids to our faces. (Perhaps we should be thankful we're not expected to slather ourselves with the lethal—but oh so pretty!—combination of vinegar and lead that the Elizabethans wore.)
Well, enough is enough. SparkLife would like to offer you appearance-conscious girls (and boys) out there, six reasons to forgo your daily makeup routine. Say it with us: "Here I am, world! Take it or leave it!"
1) Laziness. To whoever says laziness is not a good reason to do something, we say bah humbug. Think about it. If you skip your makeup routine, you get 15 more minutes of sweet, snuggly, warm bed time in the morning. That's 105 minutes a week, or 91 hours a year! Snooze away.
2) Strict parents. Even if your parents do allow you to wear makeup, who's to say you have to tell people that? "My parents won't let me" is the greatest Get Out of Jail Free card teenagers were ever given for not doing something they don't want to do.
3) Allergies. Have you looked at the ingredients of makeup recently? There's all sorts of crazy eight-syllable mononeucleidiphates in there. And we're all "wait, is that organic peanut butter?" while we rub chemicals on our faces. Trust us when we say rashes are never sexy.
4) Peace, love, and hippiness. Hippies have been going au naturel for decades. While we cannot, in good conscience, support the no-deoderant movement, we can say they might have something with the no-makeup thing. Adopt a cause, light up some patchouli incense, and try it out for a week.
5) Backlash to Lady Gaga. We get it. You're a performance artist. But how do you blink while wearing five-pound fake eyelashes?
6) Basic disgregard for others. You're not looking at yourself all day. You just might want to avoid mirrors.
Where do you fall on the makeup spectrum? Do you ever go without? Guys, do you like a girl with makeup or without?
Related post: Normal Girl vs. HMU (Heavy Makeup User)
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