Reply #21: Not.

[LWolf]

It's been a good 15 years since I wore makeup. And I like it that way. I've been a tomboy all my life, and only started wearing makeup at the polite request of my first husband and his family, who looked askance at going bare. :eyes:

No more worry about accidentally rubbing my itchy eye (allergies).

My last husband, when we started dating, asked me to leave the makeup behind. He said he liked looking at the real me. He liked looking at the real me until I hit 40; then the real younger women looked better, lol. Ah well.

I left off covering the gray a few years before that, too.

I am who I am. I didn't choose my features, skin tone, etc., before birth; at least, I don't remember doing so. At this point in my life, I'll go with the friends who value who I am more than how decorative I am. I'm comfortable with being a middle-aged tomboy. If that term even applies anymore. I learned it from my mother, who was eternally frustrated with the daughter who, even as a toddler, never wanted to be dressed up like a doll.