Well, depends on how much you put on to start with!
Heavy makeup is so unnecessary every day. Keep it simple and go all out when you are going out or for a special occasion.
#makeup #doha #cosmetics #beauty
fuck ur shit makeup is my art
i can’t make art on paper
i can’t write poetry
i can’t make music
i can’t dance
but i CAN paint. and draw. and outline. and blend. and smudge. and highlight. and shade.
it just so happens that my face is my canvas.
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The harmful drug here is society’s unrealistic expectations of women. The harmful drug here is media’s influence in making women feel like they’re not good enough. Being able to visually express yourself is not harmful. I love my makeup. I love to create and blend and explore colour palettes and I love to put it on my face the same reason you love to wear your favourite shirt. You feel good wearing that shirt and it also gives others a feel for your personality. Expressing yourself is not harmful; belittling women for their right to do so is.
Of course makeup is used as a tool to enhance beauty and can therefore have negative effects on one’s self esteem, warping their perception of beauty and in effect their own self worth. However instead of tacking that issue, some women feel the need to lecture others (almost always condescendingly) on what makeup is, what it does, when to wear it, how and why. Not wearing makeup doesn’t make you any more morally superior than the next person.
(via redefiningbodyimage)
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*white eurocentric beauty standards i guess? There’s quite a few Black, South Asian, East Asian, Arab and all mixes of people round these hoods who would call themselves European.. And there are plenty of white people in the US so if they meant white why doesn’t it say fuck white beauty standards? is it a reference to kind of the Swedish archetype of tall, blonde, blue eyes?Edit: hmmm the source seems to be a white New Yorker - maybe she didn’t create it, but if i white American did create this then it says something a bit worrying. If it was a white person then it seems ‘european’ is being used as a euphamism so that racism doesn’t need to be faced up to. And if your American please think a little bit about what Europe is actually like.
Hey, so yes, I did create this image. No I’m not European. Yes, I’m white and I totally respect/expect there will and should be skepticism around me writing about racism. But I wanna stand by the wording of this image, particularly because I didn’t make up the term “Eurocentric” nor am I the first to use it in this sentence (I just made it into an image, people of color have been saying this for a lot longer than me). I completely intended to call out racism in this image. I completely mean white Eurocentric beauty standards. I am more than willing to face up to racism and the privilege I experience as a white woman, including in dominant beauty culture. I didn’t include the word “white” because of what Eurocentric means, particularly in academia (and I’m drawing specifically from Black academics here, who have written and continue to write elegantly on the damaging impact of Eurocentrism) which isn’t simply European (because obviously there are tons of people of color in Europe, and there are tons of white people in the U.S, Canada, etc.. [but it could also be acknowledged white people over here pretty much came from Europe]). The word Eurocentric very specifically relates to a process of western, white colonization of people of color’s nations/cultures and the way in which white colonizing involved white folks violently forcing their views on others, and that these white standards are the ones people continue to be held to, greatly harming those who don’t match up to those standards. The word is pretty much never ever separate from whiteness in its use, because again it doesn’t mean European, it means a centralizing of white European ideals via oppression, violence, and colonization (and discussions of deconstructing Eurocentrism typically come from an anti-colonialist viewpoint). So when I wrote “Eurocentric,” that was me writing “white.” Because that’s how “Eurocentric beauty standards” has been used, again, by people of color before me. That phrase is used to mean “expecting people to look white” and it is used frequently in discussions of the racism and colorism that exists in dominant beauty culture. I genuinely had no desire to be euphemistic or to give white folks (including myself) a pass. We are the ones who uphold and enforce Eurocentric (read: racist) beauty standards. We are the ones who benefit.
I hope you don’t mind the long explanation.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/367d1a1f1f44c7dc7aa56c420e32a3a5/tumblr_mley186gyw1qmtl8wo1_500.png)
