Make-Up. Holy Balls....

A couple days back, I bought some mascara that would supposedly make my eyes bigger if I used it. I was fairly curious. Mainly because I was hoping I could get a subtle change to my look. Nothing wrong with it. I just wanted my eyes to look bigger.

Of course, I tried it, and unfortunately, my eyes didn't look any bigger. I had a friend actually tell me that she didn't even notice I was wearing any mascara at all. Of course, it got me thinking. How the hell did the make-up industry manage to hook me, who doesn't even like wearing makeup?

It's a strange thing. It's not even that great of a thing. To me, it's nothing but glorified colored powder. But for once it got me. My main thing was that I didn't look like the Westerner that I am, so I thought getting mascara was going to help. Nope! I should've known better than that. But I'll learn next time.

They say that some lipsticks have cayenne pepper extract in them to irritate a woman's lips to make them bigger. I'm not sure if that's really true or not, but I think that's a little far-fetched to get a woman's lips bigger than what they want it to be.

The beauty industry is probably one of the strangest industries ever. If you really think about it, they spend tons and tons of money on making even the most confident woman feel bad about her appearance in hopes she will buy their product to feel good about themselves again. It kind of goes along with the the cultural standard that a woman's only purpose in this world is to be hot.

Just try having a conversation with the average teenager. If you talk about things like politics, world history, or even math, the girl might shut down and say she's too stupid to know anything about this. This isn't true of all girls. But of a lot of girls I know. They're bright. They know something is up with all of these topics. But try to get a girl to talk about it, she gets uncomfortable and shuts down.

Yet, you get her talking about makeup and fashion, then suddenly she's a chatterbox and a wealth of knowledge.

This is almost the same of grown women too! Take the time to think about it. How many conversations have you had with another female where the start of it has been, "I like...." and it's something superficial? Very few times, it seems, the conversation strays from something other than looks. How strange is that?

End my rant with the awkward pic of the day!