Eccentric Flower:199810/makeup make-up
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29 october 98 ten p m Makeup Make-up All right, a clarification. After this morning's postcard, two women told me that they still didn't possibly understand how anyone could want to wear makeup. These two women, I mention as an adjunct, were my girlfriend and my ex-girlfriend, respectively, and over the years they've put up with me, I've heard the comment from them several times - hence the word "still" above. I note that these entries seem to have, for whatever reason, more female readers than male ones, so before the rest of you say the same thing: I don't always want to wear makeup. I agree that it is a royal pain, and I can certainly understand your reaction. But that wasn't really my point. I never said I want everyone to wear it, and I don't approve of any social standards that say women have to wear makeup - to the office, for example. I think it is just as unfair to have a standard which requires makeup as it is to have one which prohibits it. And we have both, unfortunately. Ultimately you should have the right to be free of the dratted stuff whenever you so choose - just as I should have the right to apply some whenever the mood strikes me, as it did this morning. Nobody gets what they want. By the by, I made several discoveries about wearing glossy lip stuff. It improves my mood and my confidence, of course, since it helps me feel a little bit female, and I am always at my best when I feel female. But it also prevents me from biting my nails and induces me to keep my lips closed whem my face is in neutral - two Good Things. (My mouth tends to gape a little while I'm working or idle, partially because I have difficulty breathing through my nose sometimes, and I do not find it becoming.) You wouldn't begrudge me such a little thing that does so much good, would you? Lip gloss every day! Vive la Résistance!
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