Menstuff® has compiled information on why make-up is bad for our daughters.
beau-ty (byootee/ n. (pl. - ties) 1 combination of shape, color, etc., that pleases the senses. 2 colloq. a excellent specimen. b attractive feature; advantage. 1 loveliness, attractiveness, handsomeness; picturesqueness, aestheticism, elegance. 2 a jewel, pearl, gem, dream. b attraction, appeal, charm; asset, benefit, boon, selling point. Source: Oxford Desk Dictionary & Thesaurus, American Edition, 1997
We start with the message on this T-shirt.
"Make-up is Ugly Wearing make-up supports the harmful standard of beauty produced by the cosmetics and advertising industries. Don't Buy It!"
We're not saying don't use make-up for a costume party. However, teaching our girls that they need make-up to be beautiful only produces stort-term results. As John Donne said, "Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." Don Juan Demarco (the movie) went future by saying "There is beauty in every woman." Prior to hearing that message, I thought beauty, as described in the dictionary, was appearance. Now, to me, beauty has nothing to do with the physical appearance. And, when I realized that, it opened up a whole new world for me. Let's teach our daughters that beauty is much deeper than the outside serfice of our bodies. It travels outward from the soul.
Make-up dishonors God because God gave you one face, and you make yourselves another. - Adaptation from William Shakespeare
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. - Mark Twain
Ask a toad what beauty is...; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back. - Voltaire
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