To wear the makeup, or to not wear the makeup.

I've noticed on the internet there has been this trend of either 

1. Wearing makeup makes you less of a person than someone who doesn't wear makeup
2. Women should stop 'tricking' men by wearing makeup 

To just begin with.  I am a licensed cosmetologist (as most know) and a free lance makeup artist. I am appalled at the idea that people think they are better than other people if they don't wear makeup. I'm not sure how a persons worth has to do with makeup. 

I think it is fantastic if a person feels comfortable in the skin she is given, and that she can feel confident like that. But there are girls who don't. And if they are able to find a smidgen of confidence in a jar of foundation, or a tube of lipstick whose to say they are less of a person? 

It irks me when a guy says that girls shouldn't wear makeup. Or that they like girl's 'natural' and that they would rather a girl wore 'leggings and a baggy sweat shirt'. But who made them so special that everything a woman does is for them? I'm not going to go all feminist in this because I probably could. But women aren't trying to trick men when they wear red lipstick, or a smokey eye. Women are being women, makeup is an expression of creativity no different than a guy who likes to fix cars. 

And for many women it is an art form. I'm a makeup artist because I love the art of it. Not because I want to 'fool' men. When I do a woman (or man)'s makeup what their SO thinks never crosses my mind. I think how can I make this person feel like a million bucks? How can I make them leave here with a smile. It's about a feeling in yourself, not about giving a feeling to someone else.

People are so stuck in deciding how people should and shouldn't be it's ridiculous. People have insecurities, man or woman. And if a bit of concealer makes them feel better. Good for them. If you feel wonderful with out it, good for them too.