Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

How nice would it be to wake up looking great. I used to love testing out new beauty products but now I am tired of it; its so expensive! Now I just use some blush and lipstick, never do my nails, wash my hair twice a week (saves so much shampoo), and use the bare necessities when it comes to skin care. I do not feel any pressure from society to do these things (if I did, I'd have highlights and black rims around my eyes), but I wish I could just feel satisfied with how I look (I am sometimes but that would mean that I would have had to have 8 hours of sleep, eaten sensibly, the weather would have to be perfect, etc etc.) How do you all feel?

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

I hate the whole routine of getting ready. It's sooo time consuming!! I also don't wash my hair every day - but thankfully it doesn't show. And now that I don't work I don't need the make-up. I skip it most days entirely as I don't go anywhere -- helps my skin stay clearer. I do spend a bit on my hair and products because when I do get myself together, it's a chore (and I don't feel like I look that different, just better) but they last a while because I only do it a couple of times a week.

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

No. I don't use beauty products, but I am a slave to hair products, my hair can't live without moisturizers.

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

There's little proven difference between drug store cosmetics, and department store cosmetics. I am very low maintenance. I had my eyeliner and eyebrows tattooed on, and then lip liner and color, so all I have to wear is blush, mascara and lip gloss. Good skin goes a long way, and I haven't worn base or powder since Junior High School, when I first started using cosmetics. Getting my make-up tattooed on was one of the best things I ever did. You wake up looking good, and you don't have to wear make-up at all.

I think my time is better served in other ways like talking to people I don't know through the computer. LOL

Still, I'd rather be here, than staring at myself in the mirror, rubbing goo on my face.

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

Me and all the other fairies... feel that society is expecting us to wear make up. If I had it my way, I'd wear it only on special occasions. I wear very little as is - the mineral powder stuff, mascara and neutral lipstick....

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

Sometimes I feel like makeup's a big hassle, and on those days I just let everybody look at me funny. Actually, women never treat me any different when I'm without makeup so I shouldn't say everybody.

But if I'm going to be out in the sun for more than a second, I wear mineral base. The one I use has spf 20 and I'm very prone to skin cancer, so ironically when I'm doing outdoor stuff, I'm more likely to look put together, lol!

You know what I am addicted to, though? Bath bombs, body scrubs and creams. Ooh la la!

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

the only thing you are a slave to is capitalism

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

No. I wear blush, concealer, and lip gloss (on occasion); I dab a refining mask on my face at night; and I refuse to put anything but shampoo into my hair.

Do you feel like you are a slave to beauty products?

I have the same views as you. I want to be beautiful form my perspective, not when someone complements me. That's why I stay away from it ALL. I don't want to be a "slave". I wanna be free.

It actually saves a lot of time. Wake up late. Don't spend useless money. I don't have to worry about impressing anyone in particular...and I actually get guys by not doing all this.