Something to Understand

Here’s the thing about makeup, it can both enhance and hide the features of the wearer. It can be an expression for personality or a shield for shame. It matters not how one wields the tools of face contortion, in the end it is something that should be worn as a choice.
The same should be said for the exact opposite. 
Makeup is a layer of gunk, albeit pretty gunk, but gunk nonetheless that clogs the pores on the skin. It leads to breakouts, especially in youths going through the puberty gauntlet and women who deal with their bodies committing mutiny each month for not being pregnant. The skin is supposed to breathe. It needs to not have piles of shimmery pigment caked on. Even a simple makeup look should be done in moderation to give the face a break. 
Many a person will be seen in the workplace or at school predominantly in makeup. It is a life they are trapped in from the moment they put on eyeliner and mascara for the first time. This is because, once people see you in makeup for a little while, they forget you have a face underneath. They no longer remember you with a naked face, that person is gone to them. Because of this, people keep their unpainted faces hidden and for good reason. They cannot put up with the most asked questions without resulting to violence…
“Are you tired?”
“Are you sick?
Are you okay? You don’t look well”
For the love of taking good shits, stop telling people they look tired just because they lack glorified sharpie on their eyes! It will always make them endure a slew of miserable feelings because obviously no one wants to be told their face looks sick when they decided they didn’t want to spend ten to thirty minutes on face stuff. The question itself just makes you feel awkward since now you have to disappoint the asker by saying you simply look like that normally. Then you feel ashamed that you didn’t try hard enough to appear worthy in society, enraged that someone had the audacity to criticize your true being, irked that you don’t naturally look like a god even though no one does, and discombobulated on how the feck you’re supposed to go through the rest of the day.
It is one of the most dickish moves that can be done in the history of dickery. We are all self conscious about what the genes of our parents and ancestors congealed to create and we are constantly pointing out the flaws and dislikes we see in ourselves every day. The last thing one needs is for some yahoo to come up to them and say that their face isn’t adequate enough for said yahoo’s eyes. That is essentially what you are stating when you point that out because you failed to think for a second and realize that sick and tired people don’t look like someone without makeup. 
I, for one, don’t tend to wear makeup. My eyes are shaped stupid and I sweat it off anyway because I’m a space heater. Even though I am typically free of product, I’ve had my fair share of people say that I look tired or exhausted. It takes a toll on a person after a while. I shouldn’t have to feel unprofessional with a sad looking face when I go to work as a cashier.
Everyone should have learned this when they were a fetus but I shall say it here for those who didn’t get the memo. If you are going to point something out to someone else, a thing that they cannot change in thirty seconds, refrain yourself from pointing that thing out. It only causes embarrassment that reappears and seeps into the moments before sleep for the person you critique. On top of that, it’s just straight up unnecessary and terribly fecking rude. Learn some manners. Leave naked faces alone. 
Makeup is an art. Thus it should be used when the artist is feeling creative and inspired. They should have a choice. They should not feel incomplete or ugly or unpresentable without it.
There is a difference between someone who is fresh faced and someone who is downright ill or exhausted. It’s good to make a habit of taking a step back when seeing someone, who usually wears makeup, not have any on and remember that cosmetics are magical when used correctly. They can both enhance and hide the features of the wearer. 
So stop being an asshole and instead appreciate people for how they are in their most basic and purest form.

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