This is an interesting post critiquing makeup culture. Now of course there’s nothing wrong with anyone choosing to wear makeup, this post is addressing the pressure that society puts women under to have to put on makeup to leave the house. This pretty much sums it up: “No face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. Makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.”
(via: r/tumblr)
The only required product should be something with sunscreen in it, even in winter time those UV rays are damaging. That something could be a simple sunscreen, a moisturizer/sunscreen combo, a tinted moisturizer, or a more complex regime. But always wear sunscreen!
Bare minimum *for me* is moisturizer (with sunscreen), eyeliner and lipstick..But I want to make it clear, that’s *for me*. There should be no societal bare minimum. I wear it because I like how I look when I do. Brush your hair, wash your face (and yea, sunscreen) and BLAMO you’re good to go!
Humans have been dealing with the sun for literally thousands of years without Sunscreen. Couldn’t be further from necessary. Y’all are damned fools.
Humans somewhere doing something for thousands of years doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a good idea. Average medieval lifespans were around 40-50 years or so. They were mostly here for a good time, not for a long time. And if you bathe every day (which ancient humans didn’t usually do) your skin will be dryer. Modern standards for scent, especially in the US, are very different than what they were a few hundred years ago. If I work out during my lunch break, don’t shower, and go back to work then people are going to complain and the boss will take them seriously. So as long as there’s a social requirement for constant bathing, then using products which address that will be a good idea for some people.
Also, if you don’t work out for a year and then try to lift what your ‘ancestors’ did you’re still going to strain yourself. Just like if you stay in an office for most of your life and then go to the beach you can easily get burned.
Also, not all people are adapted to all places. Many Caucasian fieldworkers working in the rural South tended to succumb to the environment there. It wasn’t what their particular ancestors had adapted to.
You make some very good points but can we move past the ole “average medieval lifespans” fallacy? The calculation of an average medieval (ideally with a specified region–not all of humanity lived in Central/Western Europe) lifespan was drawn downs pretty much because of high infant mortality. If you survived infancy (or childbirth for some women), your life expectancy was decades higher than 40-50. This is the problem with people talking averages without understanding statistics or distribution.
Actually, the average lifespan of humans has shot up by 2 or 3 DECADES in the past century, due to better food (GMO’s play a role in this too), better medication and vaccination, and better lifestyles
This isn’t average lifespan, this is life expectancy which excludes child death and war
Jaime do you wear glasses? Or clothes? Or shoes? Or literally anything that isn’t produced by your own body “naturally”? Literal apes wear primitive sunscreen. Literal elephants, animals that don’t even have functioning hands, have created ways to wear mud as sunscreen.
I figure you probably need make up if you’re on stage/TV/film or engaged in most forms of Cosplay/LARP. Other than that, do you want to?
I’ve worn makeup for stage, TV and LARP, I sometimes wear concealer if I’ve been having trouble sleeping to tone down the bags under my eyes.