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I will never forget the words my friend?s dad said to me two years ago when I went to her house during my first trip back home from college. He opened the front door, looked me up and down and said in his thick Italian accent, ?Sue, you look real good. You?ve got some more makeup on the face. I?m liking it!? Not only did I feel like I was in an episode of ?The Sopranos,? but also I was disappointed that I only got a compliment from this man just because my eye-liner was a tad bit thicker.
Makeup; while it?s a lifesaver to many girls, it remains an enigma to most boys. They don?t understand how a few products can transform an ugly duckling into a swan, or how some girls can manage to fit so much onto such a small surface area. But the real question I have when it comes to makeup has nothing to do with shades of foundation or how much mascara is too much, but rather I want to know whether we girls use makeup to make up for something else.
I?m not saying that every girl who wears makeup has no self-esteem just because she feels the need to paint up every morning and peel it off every night. But maybe this whole makeup phenomenon has something to do with how we define beauty today.
We all get pimples and have features that we feel the need to conceal, but then, of course, we can just flip on the television and watch Jessica Simpson?s tragic story about how she has struggled with acne her entire life, that is until she discovered Proactiv. I know that Jessica is just trying to help, but her qualms with her close to flawless skin put most of us to shame.
How many times have you heard a guy say the words, ?That girl is so hot?? Whether it be from some guy whispering it to his friend at the Math Emporium or walking by any given room in Pritchard, those words are too often thrown around. Here?s the deal with the word ?hot?: I don?t like it, and I?m going to go out on a limb and speak for most girls when I say that calling us ?hot? is barely a compliment. When a girl hears ?hot,? maybe she will initially take tribute to it, but then the realization that hot is a temporary state of being will soon follow.
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