If you wore makeup when you were dating your spouse, do you still wear it now?

[Anonymous]

If I'm staying home all day? Heck no. Work or leaving the house for any reason? Yes.

[Anonymous]

I use a tinted moisturizer as 'foundation' and I wear that sometimes around the house. I've never been a 'full face' kind of person and am not now but I definitely wore more then and he saw me with makeup more then because we were coworkers.

I think he doesn't like it actually. I will put on makeup to go out on a date and I think he thinks it makes me look different. But I also don't think he really cares much either way and mostly wants me to feel comfortable in my own skin so whatever it takes to make that happen is what is good.

[Anonymous]

Never wore it and still don’t. My choice. Husband hates make up anyway, so that works for us.

[Anonymous]

Only a small amount on a normal day, more for a night out. Pretty much the same forever.

[Anonymous]

Wow, are the women who wear make up at home SAHM's?

I can't imagine putting on makeup to hang around my home.

Are you so down on how you actually look that you have to disguise it? If so, I think society has got you thinking that, with all of the touched up/air brushed photos, celebrities with fake bodies or eating disorders, etc.

Sad to me that people (female people) are not comfortable in their own (unadorned) skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, are the women who wear make up at home SAHM's?

I can't imagine putting on makeup to hang around my home.

Are you so down on how you actually look that you have to disguise it? If so, I think society has got you thinking that, with all of the touched up/air brushed photos, celebrities with fake bodies or eating disorders, etc.

Sad to me that people (female people) are not comfortable in their own (unadorned) skin.

WOHM here (well, pre-pandemic). I wear light makeup most days even when at home, concealer under eyes, a little mascara and blush. I am pretty happy with how I look generally but I'm very fair and a tiny bit goes a long way. It takes me two minutes or less. Not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

I only wear it when we go out. He knows what I look like, no need to put it on at home only to wash it off.

[Anonymous]

I know, right?

[Anonymous]

I met and started dating DH when I was in college. He saw me in baggy pj bottoms and worn out tank tops before we started dating. We knew each other for over a year before we started dating. So it was no big deal for him to see me without makeup.

For nicer dates, I'd put-on a little makeup. But I've never been someone who wears a lot.

[Anonymous]

Yes, and yes.

But I don't wear as much at home. Maybe mascara, tinted lip balm, a little concealer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, are the women who wear make up at home SAHM's?

I can't imagine putting on makeup to hang around my home.

Are you so down on how you actually look that you have to disguise it? If so, I think society has got you thinking that, with all of the touched up/air brushed photos, celebrities with fake bodies or eating disorders, etc.

Sad to me that people (female people) are not comfortable in their own (unadorned) skin.

Please f*** ALL the way off. No, I do not in fact like the way my chronic dermatological condition looks in the mirror, this is what’s known as a “normal human feeling” and you’re trying to pathologize it into some ViCtIm Of SoCiEtY sh*t. Do you also go around smugly trying to lecture parents of teens who spend money on braces? No, of course you don’t, because that doesn’t give you an excuse to inflict your sad internal misogyny on other women just living their own lives.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes. I use beautycounter so it is more like a tinted bb cream or a foundation and then add mascara. I'm more ocd about putting on sunscreen although the foundation has it added. It's really more for seeing people, though, not DH, like over zoom or whatever. I like the routine aspect of it. Like, waking up routine.

I think some of it depends on your baseline, too, though. If you have great skin and looks, it matters less to wear makeup, I think. I do know people whose friends, SO, never saw them without a full face of makeup and didn't recognize her without it.

[Anonymous]

When I go out, yes. Otherwise, not really.

[Anonymous]

Of course I do now that we are married. Otherwise I would be rightly accused of a bait and switch. I also wake up early to curl my hair and do my face before my husband rises.

[Anonymous]

Never wore a lot when we were dating, except for really special occasions.

Never wore a lot when we were married, except for really special occasions.

Haven’t worn make up since March, but I’ve been on a skincare kick, so my skin has never looked better.

Incidentally, we’ve never had as much sex as we’ve had since March, so he isn’t complaining about the lack of makeup.