Could you do without cosmetics?

I hate the feel of foundation on my skin. Feels like it's blocking all my pores and feels so greasy. I used very good quality Estee Lauder stuff before anyone jumps on me for using rubbish!

I don’t wear make up, haven’t for about 20 years

I could, but I don't want to. Not that I wear lots of makeup, but I feel more presentable to the public when I put on a little colour daily.
Even if I'm home on a Sunday with no plans to go out I put on mascara and a little tinted lip balm, after all my DH still has to look at me!

I could, but prefer my face with. It only takes a couple of minutes. Mascara, lipliner, lipstick, blusher. Eye liner and a touch of foundation if going out for the evening. Eyeshadow if going somewhere special.

No, i have worn makeup since i was 14, and i worked in a very posh hairdressers ,when i left school at 15, and it was compulsory, also had to have hair done there every week
Appearances were everything
In summer i just leave foundation off, but wear lipstick and soft eye pencil
It makes it easier to face myself in the mirror every day

In a word, No could not do without make up, I have tons of the stuff

Anyone could live without make up. They would have to if it wasn't available. But I like wearing it and I wouldn't willingly give it up.

Getting ready for the day includes makeup and earrings. Even if I’m staying in all day. Makeup is foundation, eye shadow, eye liner, mascara, brow powder. I’m lucky my lips are still full and always wear lipstick. I am a fair skinned ginger (now ‘blonde’) with freckles, fair eyelashes and brows. Makeup is my friend but doesn’t cost a lot. No big designer names.
Max Factor and Rimmil.

Have never worn it, and do not plan to start now.
So yes, I could and can do without cosmetics.

I am on holiday, I have a lovely tan. Apart from slathering my face with moisteriser I am not wearing make-up and may not for the next month. Once my face returns to its usual pasty colour, yes, I will so that people realise that I am not one of the living dead.

Oh yes, earrings, Coolgran. I’d never be out in public without them.

Yes I could, I don’t wear much anyway only a touch of eye pencil, mascara if I’m going out but daily nothing only moisturiser.

Yes I wear makeup, even walking the dog. You never know who you might meet!

I always found applying makeup tedious ,and never spent hours getting ready for a night out.Or spent lots on expensive products.However I do use lipstick and mascara and feel undressed without it.Especially as I've lost my youthful 'bloom'.I've a tiny makeup bag in the bathroom,and a lipstick in th each handbag and the car.And I never go out without a moisturiser with a high SPF as I spend a lot of time outdoors.
However I love washing my face and being free of anything on it when I'm home for the rest of the day.
I'd hang on to my lippie if I could,but of course I could live without it.

The day I stop wearing makeup I will be moving onto the next place wherever that is. ?

Washerwoman - I am exactly the same, I always have my lippie on. DH always asks when I'm in the house 'where are you going' since I have lippie on but it just makes me feel better and if anyone comes to the door it's not quite a shock for them . Like wearing make up but only a small amount, never took hours to get ready when I was young and even less now. I am what I am of course with my lippie

I used to wear more when I was younger and probably needed it less!

If I'm going to work, on a day/night out etc then putting my makeup on is routine for me. However if I have a day off and am just pottering around or doing things like food shopping then I love my makeup free days.

I enjoy painting my face on though if I am going out and I enjoy buying makeup. I don't see it as an unnecessary expense at all.

I wouldn't want to, but a lack of it wouldn't send me into a downward spiral. I use far less these days, my husband kindly tells me that I don't really look any different without makeup, my routine takes very little time anyway. However, I guess if cosmetics were unavailable we'd all be the same boat!

Never go out without it, I would feel 'unfinished', but I don't bother if I'm staying in or not expecting visitors, just moisturiser on those days.

I don't own any make up.

Fresh air is my makeup it gives you a lovely glow and its cheap.

If NO ONE was wearing it, so we all looked, well, less fresh, I'd go without all the time. As it is, I really can't be arsed most of the time anyway. Although I always wear light make-up for work.

NO I just love make up, I feel much better with it, more refreshed and ready to start the day. I don't buy expensive stuff but I have lots of it. Just glad today that I don't have to fight with those bloody false eyelashes that I did in the sixties.

Yes, I do without it very nicely, thank you.

I wouldn't want to, having worn it since my teens. I'd feel undressed without it, and being undressed in any form would not be a nice sight to inflict on others. In fact since retiring, although it doesn't take me long, I enjoy having the time to take a bit more care with it, choose my clothes and some co-ordinating jewellery for the day, even if I'm not planning to go out. Such a nice change after years of scrabbling round in haste to get my self assembly done in time to get to work.