Purchasing lipstick made me anxious – but now I am a member of the club
I first started wearing makeup,not because I wanted to – but because I had to. When I was 19 an illness that affected my skin left me with no choice but to cover it up with carefully applied concealer and foundation. I didn’t want to attract stares from strangers wondering why I looked like an additional in Star Trek.
Each morning for years, I would perfect a real “no-makeup” peruse that took me up to an hour to achieve when I first started. Throughout the ordeal, and I never once thought about my makeup routine as something I was into to invent me feel or peruse prettier; it was simply a way to outlive and remain under the radar until the evidence of being gravely ill was gone. It helped me to avoid getting pity stares from strangers who would see my face not made-up and quickly peruse away.
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Source: theguardian.com