Makeup

i wish i was the type of guy to be like “you look better with no makeup baby” but i’m not, because that’s not true. girls look better with a little bit of makeup on. 

i think it must be devastating for them, mentally. once you start, that’s your new standard. once you’ve become accustomed to presenting that version of you to the world, you can’t go back. you can’t downgrade. no one can. 

personally, the only way i’ve ever been able to really healthily successfully painlessly downgrade my own physical appearance is by no longer feeling the need to get spray tans. I had a phase, when i had more money than girlfriends, when i would go to a local spray tanning place near my house because i was confident i looked much better tan than I do in my natural shade of ghostly pale. i still think that, kind of, but now i have a girlfriend who loves pale old me and i don’t feel the need to be tan all the time in other peoples’ presence. sometimes i see other pale people and think they’re not bad looking and it gives me some hope but mostly I just don’t think about it any more. this is the only example of an unnatural 'upgrade’ to physical appearance i’ve been able to painlessly detach from. so good for me i guess.