Why Do I Wear Makeup? Tag

When I first saw this tag kicking around the blogosphere, I answered the question in my own mind with the following: 'well, because I need it'. Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, and that's exactly what this tag is all about. It may seem brief but I love going in-depth with tag posts so without further ado, here's why I wear makeup!

1. When did you begin to love make up?

I have to admit, I started truly loving it back in secondary school, which was the wrong time to start loving makeup because my school wouldn't accept it. I remember the day my headteacher grabbed me by the wrist and dragged me to her office for wearing black nail polish as if it were yesterday. However, that bears no relation to when I started wearing it. My mum used to help me put on lashings of concealer from the age of 10 because of school bullies, but needless to say I never really loved it at that point, it was more of a chore that I wished I didn't have to do!

2. How do you feel without make up?

One word - horrendous. I can't look anyone except my parents in the eye because my dark circles are horrific and my skin is bad. I never leave the house without at least some concealer on. It's not vanity either, it's about being able to hold my head up with confidence.

3. What do you like about make up?

For the sake of variety in this post, I won't reference the necessity for makeup here, but I love the creativity involved. I'm an eyeshadow enthusiast as any regular readers of my blog will notice. I love playing with colours, blending, flicking eyeliner, no two days looks are the same and that's what I love. I use my face as a canvas, I was never good at drawing so makeup's easier because the shapes are already drawn in, you just have to colour it in!

4. Three 'Holy Grail' Items?

1. The Maybelline Color Tattoos are absolute staples for me because I always wear heavy eyeshadow that needs gluing/surgically fixing to my eyelids through the day.
2. Maybelline The Falsies mascara in waterproof. I physically cannot use another mascara now, because I know it doesn't work the magic that the Falsies does!
3. MUA Undressed palette. If I didn't have this, I wouldn't have a portable transition between neutral eyes to glam bronze eyes to full-on black eyes.

So that's it, a nice and brief tag but I'm sure other peoples' responses to the questions will be a lot more interesting, so if you've done this tag, please drop your link below!

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