Women are clowns... according to America

I've never understood why society says that women have to wear make-up and that make-up makes a woman look pretty. 

Why does it have to be the women that wear the make-up? Is it because society tells us so? Lets look back at the history of make-up in societies for a minute shall we? Go look up pre-revolutionary France. The men wore the make up (and panty hose too, but don't even get me started on my thoughts on panty hose). Take a look at Ancient Egypt, everybody wore make up, not just the women.

 I'm not saying that society needs to go back to having men wear make-up too,because that is a scary image to me, I just don't understand why society seems to think that make-up is what makes a woman beautiful. I've seen countless women wearing make-up that was the wrong shade for them, and made them look rather scary/ugly.  Certainly this can't be what society deems beautiful! If looking like a circus clown is what passes for beauty in our country then count me out! I've never understood why someone would chose to wear red eye shadow! Unless they were trying to look like the devil or look like they had the flu; In which case, they succeeded mightily. Congratulations.

I also cant fathom the amount of money that is spent on something that washes down the sink at the end of the day. Don't get me wrong, I will wear make-up on occasion, and I will purchase new make-up when I need too, but honestly $42 for eye shadow? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! I can think of hundreds of better things to spend that much money on. Especially since most of the colors in that palate are not colors that enhance anyones' natural beauty. I subscribe to the old fashioned rule of thumb, that make-up should enhance the womans' natural beauty, not detract from it. Green and Blue eye shadows just don't enhance natural beauty. It makes them look like bubble-gum popping ditzy teenagers who can't wait to move out of their parents house so that they can wear high heels and act like a 'big girl'.

I think that true beauty is something that comes from inside the woman, not what gets painted on her face to cover up her blemishes. Granted, make-up is great for that purpose, but that shouldn't define a woman or beauty. Beauty comes from character. I've met a lot of girls who by societies standards are drop dead gorgeous. But guess what? Once I got to know them, they were not remotely pretty to me. They were horrible monsters that pass as human beings in this unintellecutal  society. They were mean to others and incredibly narcissistic. 

 I've never been one of those girls who has to put pounds of make-up on my face before I let anyone, even family, see my face that day.  I've heard guys say that push up bras are false advertising, well then why doesn't anyone ever say that make-up is false advertising?  Make-up can change a lot of things about someones face. You should know what someone looks like without make-up before committing to waking up beside them every morning for the rest of your life.  
For the record, I don't hate make-up, and I don't hate girls who wear make-up. I just don't see why society tells our girls that they have to wear make-up or they won't be pretty enough, and if  they are not pretty enough then they don't have any value. That is pure B.S. and our girls should not listen to it.