is make up a mask??

one of my guy friends was speaking to me the other day and he told me that he doesnt like girls that wear lots of makeup becuase that symbolises to him that they have something to hide...do you think that thats true?? do you think that people (girls in particular) are hiding something from the rest of the world by covering their faces with make up????
Just wondering what everyone thought
I'd Like guys as well as girls to post you feelings and ideas

Luv u all
FallenxFromxGrace

The only thing i hide with make-up is my freckles. And how can i hide something with my eye make-up. I'm enhancing =)
So no, i'm not hiding something, i'm drawing attention to my best features =)
*Gem*

Go natural. I don't look a dolls and get all excited...or at least that you know of. Girls should just forget the whole standard. Although it seems rather impossible to do so...thank you western societies! Anyways, I cannot stay with a girl if she is so full of make up that when I touch her face I get white crap on my finger :)

Most girls aren't 'full' of make-up. They wear certain pieces to 'enhance' thier features.
And if applied properly, it doesn't come off on every one who happens to touch you.
I certainly don't have that problem when Marcus touches my face.
Peace

Is make up a mask?

YES.

yea it depends if you gob it on tho....some people dont want people to see what they look like without cuz they think their ugly.....then some people actually go for the natural look and look good!!

i wear makeup to hide my ugly almost non exsistant eyelashes. xD

lol. i like makeup, i do my self up all crazy. its just fun for me. =]

make up is about enhancing your features, not covering them up. some people GOB and GOB it on, and you see them and are like 'WHOA....makeup", but then there are those people who hardly wear anything, and they dont need to. then theres most of us in another category (including me) : accentuate on one part or just make it subtle enough so that not everyone notices it or that it enhances what you already have.
so make up can be a mask. or it cant. it all depends on how you use it

I wear make up but most of my friends, even the girls don't know I'm wearing make up unless I wear an unnatural eye color. When I do they're like "Are you wearing make up? It looks nice". haha. It definately depends on how you apply it, what colors, etc, etc. I agree with Gemma, too, that sometimes it does just inhance your best features, and sometimes even makes one not-too-good-looking feature look good. However i think it's disgusting how girls can go around with so much make up on. It's just not right.

But I think that sometimes make up can be a mask, and a lot of times it's unnecessary and for the wrong reasons.

I don't consider it a mask, well for myself at least!
Some girls yes, hide feelings and looks behind their makeup and become someone they know they aren't..
But for me...I have nothing to hide I just LOVE Makeup...I love eyeshadow and different things you can do with it and I love mascara and how it brings out my eyes...I don't consider it wearing a mask though..well in the terms your speaking because I'm just the same when wearing makeup as I am with it off

It depends on the individual I guess.

I mean I can see girls who wear way too much make up who you can tell have sat infront of a mirror since 6am caking their look on - not a good look. The whole night make up during the day is not attractive.

Minimal make up should be used I believe to accentuate the features a woman already has or to help her with her self confidence...and even if you have packed it on and spent hours putting on your face - a good makeup job won't look as though you have!

I don't know if I would call it a mask as such though...again depends on the individual

hey guys thanx for all ur opinions its really interesting to see what you all think

Honestly i think that it can be a mask depending on the amount you wear. I will sometimes wear a little, but mostly i go natural other than eye liner. Natural beauty is better than the beauty you get from covering yourself up.

Maybe it is not the make up with which our young finest are confused. Perhaps it is the personalities that are masking, and the make up side-tracking.

If only make up where an easier solution to a time old question. I am probably becoming too analytical with this subject and a little off base.

i think most guys are just thinking of what the hell will they be waking up to the next morning or the next few years, and they kinda cant tell that unless you dont have caked makeup on, but as gem sed there isnt much to hide unless u have bad skin but more often or not its just to make girls think that they actually do look good, when most of them look good without the makeup so why bother!

Theatrical make up is a mask... it's scary when you're behind the stage and you see ballerinas putting it on SO thick, they reinvent their whole face.
A bit of base to cover a batch of pimples and some gloss to disguise your dry lips isn't a mask, however it is lying. Perhaps it is even more of a mask when when you apply it to look as though you aren't wearing any, because that is as though to say "I really do look like this" when in fact you don't. At least if guys can look at a woman and say "ah, she's wearing make up" then he knows that she doesn't really look like that. If you wear "invisible" make up you're deceiving people...
Oh well, to each his own.

//T.L.//

NO

A lot of guys say that to me in my school..They think I'm this weird person with a lot of dirty secrets, but thats not true. They're constantly telling me to go all natural, but for me its not that easy. I don't think make-up is a mask. In a sense it is. But girls usually just wear it to abide by the "rules" of society. But where I live, girls who don't wear makeup are kind of looked down on.

yea, i think when people wear a lot of make up theyre hiding something.

me and my friend amanda dont wear any make up and we look at these girls and we say "theyre hiding their feelings behind all that shit"

and i only think theyre hiding something when they wear A LOT, make up is nice if you dont wear a lot.

and mostly any guy you ask, theyd prefer a girl who wears less make up.

I usually just wear a little eye makeup, that's about it. I don't wear it to hide anything, I kind of got into the habit, and I feel weird without it now.

I like the way I look with it on, better than with it off. I don't do it for anybody else, and I don't have anything to hide. It's just what I like to do.

And I think that's how it is for most girls. They wear it because they like the way it looks, not to hide anything at all.

I personally do not wear make up.. I don't like drawing attention to myself, so not wearing make up for me is my mask I guess.. If I want to hide, my cap is what hides me, and the only time I really feel at my most comfortableness [hehe not a word but still] is when I have my cap on my head.. Hmmm think I've kind of gone off topic here so am going to sshhhhh now :P

Honestly i think that it can be a mask depending on the amount you wear. I will sometimes wear a little, but mostly i go natural other than eye liner. Natural beauty is better than the beauty you get from covering yourself up.

^^ I 100% agree with you punk

Bob, I always laugh.

I would like to propose a question. Is it our place to judge another merely on the make up they wear?

Candy thoughts..

good point

I find a women most beautiful when I wake up to see their darling face staring at me in bed. Maybe I have just not woken up completely, or maybe I'm just happy someone is there. :)

agree 100%!! i do hear a lot of guys talk about how they like girls who dont wear a lot of make-up. exactly why i dont lol. no honestly i dont see a point to. its nasty, oily, and im a money grubber =D haha.

I really want to go where you all live..guys here (at least at my school) won't date you if you don't wear makeup....basically if your not a trash bag hoe, they won't even look your way

I don`t think its a mask since most women who wear make up wear it to enhance certain features,which in turn draws attention to that feature,I have teal colored eyes, a little make up makes them stand out, a mask usually means your hiding not trying to get attention, I think.

i dont think theres anything wrong with it. it makes people more confident and happyer, it makes someone who they are it dosnt hide how they are. you can still see there face and to be honest theres only so much makeup can do.
i really dont think you can judge someone on if they wear makeup or not because where im from most girls do,

what about when men wear make up, do you look at them and think they look fake and they must be hiding something ?

Yeah, but if a girl is covering her face with fondation, along with eyeshadow, a lot of eye liner, mascara, and lipgloss..well thats covering your face. That's basically a mask because you're not confident enough to show your natural beauty. Flaws are what make us beautiful, so why cover up blemishes? It's natural to have them, why hide them? Nobody is perfect. We might as well go natural.

Depends on what you want it to be...

Many just use it hide pimples and freckles...

Other use it to hide up their face, and their feelings...

So yes, make-up CAN be a mask.

Yeah, but if a girl is covering her face with fondation, along with eyeshadow, a lot of eye liner, mascara, and lipgloss..well thats covering your face. That's basically a mask because you're not confident enough to show your natural beauty

^^ I disagree...I wear all of the following you just said..not to much of it but a little of each...I don't use it as a mask...I'd be comfortable not wearing makeup, I just choose to because I prefer the way I look with makeup than without...I took modeling classes and when they showed me all the things I can do with makeup I just loved it and its fun and intersting to me..but I'm not hiding anything...I'm always myself with or without makeup...so Like Angel of Secrets said...it CAN be a mask...but its not to many....

Make up cannot hide a frown. Make up cannot hide the sadness in your eyes. Make up cannot hide the intent of your soul, but I suppose no mask could.

^ i agree. but it depends on how much you wear

^ i agree. Make up isnt a mask if u use it in small amounts.I no i use mascara n foundation but for girls it makes some feel more confident. So yes sometimes its not a mask but i think if u pack it on it will look and feel like a mask.

*StonedAngel*

yes. but only if u use to much to change ur apperance. ma dad always sed to ma sis "only ugly girls need to wear makeup". neway int it in the name?? 'make up' ur face

I'm not honestly a big fan of make up. The only time i ever wear make up is for family pictures or for dances or something. Way too many girls (especially the younger ones) at my school wear way too much make-upand it hides their natural beauty rather than accent it. In proper amounts, it looks good, but too many goods are wearing too much.

The way you choose to wear makeup can say something about your personality, it isn't always there to hide anything.

girls wear more of it than others, why? to hide blemishes and whatnot..
girlls who wear alot of make up are the ones who think that they need to wear alot of it to make them look prettier, and older.
it isnt a mask, just something girls do

Hmm good discussion... When I see girls at school with foundation completely caked on, so much mascara that their eyelashes are clogged up, and eyeliner so thick you can't see their eyes... hmm it just doesn't look attractive somehow... They would look so much prettier if they just wiped half of it of...

I do think it CAN be a mask, it shows there is something to hide, that they aren't comfortable with who they are without adding to that with a hundred other products.

But I also think that the right amount of makeup, in the right place can look really nice. A bit of eyeliner can add a sparkle to the eye and so on...

- Polly