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From: forys@sunybcs.UUCP (Jeff Forys)
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Subject: RE: Makeup (Marie Carey)
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Date: Sun, 19-Aug-84 20:45:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 19 20:45:41 1984
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From: siesmo!carey (Marie Carey) Posted by: kjm@brl-tgr.ARPA On: Aug 15 1984
> I have never thought about the pros and cons of wearing makeup,
> I have just always done it, mostly out of necessity. I do not
> have flawless, perfect skin like these women who complain about
> other women wearing makeup just *must* have. It angers me when
> these "perfect skinned" women get up in arms about other women 
> wearing makeup. What's it to you who wears makeup and what their
> reasons may be? Like who are you to judge WHY people wear makeup?

Wait!  For many women (at least those I'm familliar with) wearing
makeup and perfect skin (if there really is such a thing) have nothing
to do with each other.  It seems that the women who don't wear the
makeup (or use it *very* sparingly) have decided that they wish to be
liked for their personalities and not their looks.  This is why I think
they are much more interesting.  They aren't trying to put up a phony
front or be someone they're not -- what you see is what you get.  If I
decide I like one of them, it's for what they are, not how they look
or what they wear.

> I personally *feel* ugly as sin without it because my skin has been
> plagued with acne and has resulted in scarring and I feel a definite
> necessity to help my image of myself by trying to look the best I
> possibly can. Looking the best I can means wearing makeup to hide
> marks and I have never thought anything more about it than that.

I understand your reason for wearing makeup.  Since I don't have this
problem I've never had to deal with it and therefore, have never given
it much thought.  I wonder, if it's *that* important to you, do you really
want to spend the rest of your life trying to hide it?  I guess I'd look
into plastic surgery *only* to remove the scars and return my face back
to what it *should* be.  How does that sound?  The money for all the
makeup would probably exceed that of the surgery eventually right?

> I have very pretty
> features, just not very good skin. And since, in my opinion, your
> skin is your whole face, having good features does my self image
> no good. Enough said...

No!  Don't ever just give up, but you shouldn't spend the rest of your
life trying to hide something or in pain.  I know, I got a root canal
to look forward to in the near future... ahhhh!

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