Why I Stopped Wearing Make-Up

I was sharing this with my friend today and decided to blog it :) It's a very interesting topic that involves most women. First I'm going to ask: Why? Why do girls wear make-up? I'm just going to say this now: I'm not saying that people who work with make up as a profession is a waste of time, or that people shouldn't wear make up for special events, or that people don't need make up. But when it comes to everyday living (which I'm focusing on), I've learned that girls who don't wear make up are even more attractive to [the right] guys. Hear me out. If you're going to cake on make up to go to school everyday to impress other people, that's not a good reason to use make up. First, think about all the money we spend on the nicest, newest make up brands. If you use it everyday, it's not going to last forever obviously. So you go back to the store to get more of this expensive stuff that you're just going to keep buying over and over again. Money adds up, and what you could do with that money for other causes, especially stuff to honor God, is innumerable. You could sponsor a child in Compassion, donate it to a soup kitchen, or even give it to someone who's homeless. You never know. Secondly, we use make up to impress others. Social media and teen magazines always talk about your outward appearance so you can catch the attention of that boy you're crushing on. This pressures teenage girls that they have to do things to themselves in order to make them beautiful and/or noticeable. How sad! God's word clearly says "I will praise You, because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made" (Psalm 139:14). We're already wonderful, remarkable, desirable, breath taking, and irresistible to God! He loves us more than anyone else could ever love us. We all have a place in our hearts that can only be filled with God and when we chase after boys or favor in others, we try to fill that hole in us that only God can fill. Many people try to fill it with drugs, sex, and alcohol, but only God can truly satisfy us. So when we wear make-up, is it to 'enhance' something that God already treasures and loves? Personally, I wore make-up because I was insecure with myself. In middle school, someone told me I was ugly and for a long time, I believed it. I didn't think about how God viewed me, I just wanted that affirmation from others. I wanted to feel desirable and I wanted attention. We all want to feel accepted and loved. But what we're doing is deepening our insecurities AND we're even setting up our brothers for trouble. By trying to charm them, we're only deceiving them ("Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord will be praised." Proverbs 31:30). I don't know about you girls, but I absolutely love and adore our brothers in Christ! But by trying to capture the lust in their hearts so we can attract attention to us is ultimately defrauding our brothers. It says in the Bible "And that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things..." (1st Thess. 4:6). Jackie Kendall from Lady In Waiting stated "Defrauding is to excited physical or emotional desires that cannot be righteously fulfilled." So let's really take an examination of our motives.
All of guys that I've talked to (guys who are true men of God, not complete jerks and are super awesome-yes, they exist) say that a woman who can proudly not wear make up is ultimately more desirable. It shows she's content, secure, and confident with herself! That's like incredibly remarkable because you don't meet a lot of real girls like that anymore. I don't know about you, but I want to be that girl.
I want to be so in love with God, a man has to seek God in order to find me. I stopped wearing make up because I want people to notice me for my personality and inward beauty because that will last forever rather than outward beauty. I want to be a Proverbs 31 woman and 1st Corinthians 7:34 ("An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit") woman. I want to be a good representation of a Christian woman and most importantly, I want to glorify God in whatever way I can. Do you?