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stevenleser

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6. How many of you remember the first time you had make up on?
Fri May 25, 2012, 11:35 AM
May 2012

Since it happened to me for the first time as an adult 3 yrs ago, and it was professionally applied, the memory is pretty fresh in my mind.

I wanted to look the way I looked when I was made up, not the real me with flaws, etc. One of the times I was made up, I had an acne outbreak and I was concerned about how it would make me look. The person applying makeup smiled at me, brought out some sort of makeup application instrument that looked like a gun, took it to the problem areas and then even knowing exactly where the problem was and using a lighted mirror, I could not see it.

Some woman, I dont even remember who now, once said, wow, you look so different with makeup, obviously meaning I look so much better and she was less appreciative of how the real me looked.

This is one of those issues I get pretty well from personal experience. Makeup, airbrushing, unreasonable expectations of how you should look, all of those are incredibly destructive things.

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