I was told the first line repeatedly as a teenager, and stopped wearing makeup a few years later as a result. Then I’d hear intermittent comments about how I look tired because I have thin skin around my eyes. I look tired no matter what I do. But whatever because I save a bunch of time every morning and evening, not to mention money. Holy hell is makeup expensive!
Now as an adult nearing middle age who stopped even using hair dye, I’m starting to hear that I’d be prettier if I did my makeup/hair better… and I just go “yeah, probably.” And shrug. I’ve accepted there’s no winning, someone will always comment, so I just do what I like. Not my problem if that makes you feel insecure enough to try to change my behavior.
Saw this text on a workplace toilet about what women see/think when they look in the mirror, over the course of a lifetime.
The young ones see a princess, then Cinderella, etc. At some point in the middle ages it’s “at least I’m clean”, and the last one is “I put on my purple baret and don’t give a fuck”. Can’t wait to get to that stage.
I’m convinced that make up has chemicals in them that deteriorate the skin more quickly when used. IMO, make up should be worn only on occasion, not daily. If it were worn only on occasion, the wow effect would be larger and the skin would recover to age more naturally.
When the only time you see someone without makeup is when they are too sick/tired to apply it, that conditions you to think them not wearing makeup means they are sick/tired.
Not true, there are some women who don’t wear makeup, my wife is one. Only on very special occasions, day to day life is no makeup.
So “When the only time you see someone without makeup is when they are too sick/tired to apply it” doesn’t apply to your wife. That doesn’t mean the statement is not true.
Meh. There’s good makeup and bad makeup.
That being said, if you have an opinion on someone else’s makeup, keep it to yourself.
unless they are Björk
Space Opera
“Some tired”?
“Some tired”?
It’s Southern or Hillbilly slang.
If you want to read more about it do searches for: “use of the word “some” as an intensifier”https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/321316/can-i-use-some-as-a-synonym-of-very
This is
very, veryquite similar to the British use of “quite” to mean “extremely”.Did you see him shit his pants while he was exercising? Quite disconcerting, I must say.
Fun fact: that has a name! It’s called Litotes
I’ve heard this a lot on the east coast of Canada as well.
