This article explores the author's personal journey of giving up makeup and the liberating experience of embracing her natural face. She reflects on the societal pressures that led her to wear makeup for years, ultimately finding joy in simplifying her beauty routine and reclaiming her time.
The average woman in the UK will spend 474 days applying makeup. Without it, I have more time for a life well spent
The fact that I never had the patience or the money to pull it off didn’t seem to matter. I wore makeup to work and even more makeup to sweat off on the dancefloor when I wasn’t at work. As my 20s slid into my 30s, I still wore mascara most days. I still owned lipsticks and liquid eyeliners and a vintage powder compact. I could still slap it on in the office toilet mirrors, under the arctic glare of a unisex lightbulb.
In fact, here follows an exhaustive inventory of my makeup bag: one mascara , two lipsticks ; a tube of £6.99 foundation ; and a lip stain .
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