No Make-Up Week

No Make-Up Week

The philosophy is this. Make-up is great. It is a powerful tool, a way to express yourself, your mood and interior life. But, when you can’t go without something, it loses it’s spark.

A study online claims that 8 out of 10 women prefer their female colleagues to wear makeup and the same number of women said they would rather employ a woman who wore makeup than one who didn’t. Because of these expectations, I think it’s hard for any woman to have a good relationship to make-up.

So, I am taking on the experiment to go a week without make-up, to explore my fears and beliefs around make-up and my natural face.

I am curating No Make-Up Week as a blogosphere wide project: September 20th-27th, 2010.

Join me by going sans make-up for as long as you like, uploading a naked-face photo online or just exploring your relationship to cosmetics.

The Articles

These are the official Rabbit Write No Make-up posts

Selected Articles From Around the ‘Sphere

I’ve invited some of my favorite bloggers to explore their relationships to make-up, here is what they discovered:

Selected Coverage

The No Make-Up Gallery

The beautiful women who took the experiment!

Credits

Art Credit goes to Liam at No. 1, Inc. Thanks so much for the amazing images and art direction!

2 Comments

  1. Anon
    Posted 2011-11-17 at 16:35 | Permalink

    I’m 18 and I’ve only just started wearing makeup because the harassment is just too much, wearing makeup is easy and my life is so much easier now but I hate the stuff, it is a tool the patriarchy uses to subjugate women by making them vain and encouraging their use as sexual objects, I hate makeup so much.

  2. fragrancelagoon.ie
    Posted 2012-05-15 at 13:12 | Permalink

    I do agree that Make-up is a powerful tool and a way to express yourself, your mood and interior life…But all time make up is not good…It should be in special occasion..

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