3. makeup

My feelings towards this subject are somewhat to strong some may say. In fact I've had people come up to me in the past and tell me to calm down about it, because makeup is all just a bit of fun. Indeed it is, I told them. But you yourself have told me in the past you don't feel at ease without it. My reply to that comment, I carried on, was WHY NOT?!!??!! Your beautiful and covering yourself up when you don't need to is not only pointless and a waste of money and time but its taking away from the natural beauty that you already have. I myself do wear makeup but not all the time and am perfectly okay without it too, and I myself do have quite bad skin, not perfect or flawless in anyway, not even with the foundation and canceller I have cystic acne and it will never be perfect, and I'm okay with that too. Now I know some of you may be thinking well thats all well and good for you Mollie but I am not as confident and I understand that, but its time to learn as if you don't love yourself and your makeup-less face how can you expect anyone else to. I've heard may girls say "I wear it for myself" and "Its just a bit of fun" or "It makes me feel better about myself and so thats a good thing, right?" Yes it is, but why don't you feel better about yourself anyway, with or without the makeup? After all makeup is there not to mask, but to enhance, not to cover but to bring out the natural beauty you already have. Feeling confident is great and I love to hear that people are confident in themselves but being confident with a changed covered up version of yourself is not being confident with YOU! I also agree that makeup is just a bit of fun, changing the shape of your face with contour, or painting your lips red and eyes gold for a christmas party, making your eyeshadow mach your favourite party dress, making yourself look like your favourite celeb but still being able to rub it all off at the end of the night is great, lots of fun actually. But it still brings me onto the same point as before, if it gets to a point where you feel like you have to do this every single time you leave the house is fear of someone seeing your acne, those dark circles because you didn't drink enough or stayed up last night watching Netflix until 3am or those black heads you have around your noes or even that part of your eyebrow that is not as dark as the rest of it, then its gotten to far. You should love your mich-mach eyebrows and your dark circles, love the scars on your face from the bigger spots because if you don't, then who can. If you cover up all the things that show signs of living because all of these things do, and don't let anyone see them, who is supposed to love the real you? Girls especially can get very defensive when faced with this harsh reality, I know I've met and still know a few people who do. These types of people who when faced with comments from people such as "your wearing to much makeup" or "you have a cake face" or sometimes even "under all those layers of makeup there is a person in there somewhere" get very defective, this may be for a number of reasons, 
1. If trying to correct someones makeup, saying it in a nicer way is a good start. 
2. they may be so insecure makeup is the only way that they can feel confident, when critiqued on there makeup they may not feel confident at all, not even a bit. 
3. societies standereds of beauty is very unrealistic. 

going off of point number 3, yes societies standard of beauty is very high sometimes unreachable without cosmetic surgery and then girls and boys get told there fake, its a never ending circle of ridiculousness. I don't feel that I have to meet societies standards of what is attractive anymore, although I used to until someone very close to me who I look up to and respect a lot told me this: beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. simply put, you may think that someone is the most attractive person in the world whilst the next person could say that they are not attractive at all. In other words some people will find you attractive and some people won't. You can't please everyone. The most important thing that I want everyone to take from this is that the most important thing is to love yourself, because loving yourself comes with confidence and confidence is more attractive then any amount of makeup.