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I dont need to watch this, Im not crazy about the beginning photo, I think it says it all. Unnecessary drama from some female who looks heavily made up, to me (night time city make up). Personally I had my eyeliner tattooed - one thin line over & under, Im aging & it made my eyes look more like they used to & took away the need for eye make up. It fades after about 5 years.
I dont need to watch this, Im not crazy about the beginning photo, I think it says it all. Unnecessary drama from some female who looks heavily made up, to me (night time city make up). Personally I had my eyeliner tattooed - one thin line over & under, Im aging & it made my eyes look more like they used to & took away the need for eye make up. It fades after about 5 years.
She quoting what was said to her. She feels like the woman was insinuating that she's ugly. She's mature enough to let it roll off but her point is how devastated younger women could be to have such thoughtless things said to them by strangers.
She transforms herself from a reasonably nice-looking woman into an imitation hooker.
Of course it's BS.
All she needed to do was to even out her skin, slap some concealer under her eyes and to shut up, instead of yakking to the high heaven for twenty plus minutes.
No need for this war paint in order to look more polished.
She quoting what was said to her. She feels like the woman was insinuating that she's ugly. She's mature enough to let it roll off but her point is how devastated younger women could be to have such thoughtless things said to them by strangers.
Younger women usually don't trigger these kind of comments, because at their age the presence of make-up doesn't make big difference as with older women. ( Particularly of this ethnic background, that the person in video is.)
Sure, but what royalty and the upper classes did didn't necessarily trickle down to what the vast majority of people in that society were doing. So even if Queen Elizabeth was painting her face with lead or wearing clothes draped in pearls and jewels or taking regular baths, the cooks in her kitchen and the farmers out in the country and the fishmongers weren't doing that.
That is not entirely true. There’s a good content creator on YouTube Abby Cox who discussions a lot of the misconceptions about women’s clothing, hair, and makeup, and tries a lot of the techniques for hair and makeup. It is really interesting. There is one book she refers to a lot in her videos with makeup recipes to use at home, although I can’t remember the name right now. A lot of her focus is more on what regular women did, not just the wealthy women.
So now you're a hooker if you wear a lot of makeup? lol.
Or a drag queen. Or an old movie star with one foot in the grave who's lost their sense of reality, confidence and sense of mental stability.
Any time somebody wears so much makeup that it makes them look like a bizarrely painted up cartoon caricature of what the wearer thinks an attractive woman should look like, then that person is wearing too much clownish makeup and not enough common sense.
My grandma used to have a series of books for young women. They were OOOOLLLDDD books, all set in the 20's. I read most if not all the books. The protaganist was a 'good girl' who would never fall in to the temptation of 'modern' mores, like nail polish, painted lips, and flapper dresses, and somehow, she always got her man by being pure and chaste.
But I also remember reading a book my grandma had, where the main lady wanted to look extra special before getting off the steamboat, so she found a red ribbon, dipped the end of it in water, and then drew the wet end across her cheeks, to blush her cheeks out, and then took a little bit of coal, added it to some water, and brushed it across her eyelashes to make them look darker.
So...it seems to me that what was going on THEN isn't much different than what goes on now. There are plenty of women who choose to enhance their appearances. And there's plenty of women who choose not to. Same as its ever been.
And by the way, my paternal grandma wore makeup, and my maternal grandma did not, except for lipstick.
I used to go to a Christian school with a lot of Pentecostal folks. This particular group eschewed makeup, but boy howdy, come picture day, all the girls pulled out their chapsticks.
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