Your Face Is Killing You

I think it should be a social requirement for men to wear eyeliner.

I really don't like make-up. It always smells funny anyway. Married 32 years and I've never seen my wife wear even lipstick.
It's a strange custom to paint your face and yet most American women thinks it's some kind of requirement.

Exactly! And that's what's the problem. It is a social requirement for women to wear makeup. They are perceived as being less of a woman or not caring about their appearance because of it. Now, I like wearing makeup, and I rarely go out without at least mascara on. I always wear makeup to work, I concider it part of my professional attireI don't always wear makeup, I choose to. But I choose to because I get treated better when I do.

Wearing makeup isn't voluntary when you HAVE to wear it to get the treatment you deserve.

I barely wear make-up, but this article needs to get attention. Where's the responsibility on the part of the companies? Disgusting. Women should be made aware of this and really demand for their health to be put before money.

just read "the love song of j alfred prufrock " by T S Eliot . the irony will hit you with full effect .

That's why I go to SkinDeep.com to make sure I'm buying the safest products possible. It's ridiculous that these products aren't regulated more. It just shows that industry will NOT self-regulate.

I use only organic or all natural makeup products...or none at all. I don't think the FDA regulates them, but I can certainly tell that my face doesn't burn anymore!

make decisions for yourself. If you know its bad for you don't do it. if you don't care about you no one will.

Knowing this I have one more reason to encourage certain people to wear makeup. Petarro! More lipstick! More lipstick!

it's also not much of an incentive to know that a lot of cosmetics are made up of the rendered fat of roadkill and dead pets.

nor is it helpful that many cosmetic companies employ the draize test (you'll recognize it as the one where bunnies are confined in rows and have toxic chemicals administered to their eyes) or the LD-50 test on an array of furry mammals (LD stands for lethal dose--50 refers to the percentage of 'test subjects' that die within a given period of time).

and yeah, applying paint to one's face every day has got to be wearisome.

The goddess has arrived never mind the character. No business like show business.

Well I'm sure their face (whoever is being killed) was killing their social life, which is why they resorted to using makeup... maybe they should get a better job if they are going to be vain and buy some high end organic products.

bitchmagazine.org!? ROFL!

Why don't more people know about this? So many people are so concerned about their superficial looks but at what cost when the crap you're putting on yourself is dangerous to your overall health?

Thank heavens I've never been a "girlie-girl" into all that makeup and clothes and hair stuff! I had always prided myself on the money I saved compared to other women but now I can boast better health too!
Of course it wouldn't matter how many deadly things were in makeup anyway since everyone blames smoking for just about every illness and death on the planet regardless of other factors and even if you don't smoke!

A better title might be,
"Your VANITY is killing you."

"mercury in our mascara"

Shit.

Hemp makeup.

i don't like, is greasy and nasty

Oh you poor girls, actually I prefer women who wear very little to no makeup. I'd much rather be with a natural woman than with a victorian doll.

i always hated makeup