Do Women Who Don't Wear Makeup Make Less Money

An article in the New York Times made me wonder if I would ever go to a social effect or business coming together without makeup. Hmmm.

It proclaimed the "no-makeup look equally the new beauty standard" and raised the question of whether going without makeup makes one more "authentic."

Well, peradventure information technology does. But reading the article fabricated me, someone who doesn't walk the domestic dog without a lilliputian lipstick, feel inclined to speak out on behalf of those who love wearing the stuff.

The 'no-makeup wait' ebbs and flows in popularity, peaking when celebrities like Beyonce' or Gwyneth Paltrow post photos of themselves on Instagram without a stitch of powder or even a dab of lipstick.

Those quoted in the article -- makeup artists, dazzler editors, bloggers, and actresses -- collectively felt that going bare-faced can be a "show of confidence" and is "a balance between pragmatism and feminism." Oh, did I mention that they all seemed to be under thirty with pretty terrific looking skin, lush brows and lashes, and naturally rosy lips and cheeks?

Afterwards reading it, I was left wondering: does going blank-faced make y'all more confident and accurate, and is it a look that should exist embraced by women over 50?

Just allow's movement beyond the physical. What about the political?

Deborah Rhode, Stanford law professor and author of "The Beauty Bias," shared her views in the article, offering a feminist perspective on the discussion:

Makeup expectations, peculiarly in the workplace, are about "gender subordination," she said. Women are discipline to much more rigorous standards for their advent," Ms. Rhode said. "There'south an supposition that a woman is somehow less professional if she doesn't wear whatsoever makeup at work," Ms. Rhode said. "But information technology's actually women beingness subject to a double standard. They are faulted for caring too much or not enough. Either they 'permit themselves become' or are 'vain and narcissistic.'

As a feminist and woman over 50, this all resonated with me. I tin can adjure to the importance of feeling confident in a world where we are bombarded with images and messages telling us how young, sparse, and beautiful is better. I'thousand a vehement abet for positive aging and believe in embracing our age, any information technology is.

However, I know this much is true: wanting to feel pretty and confident and embracing your age and power are not mutually exclusive.

The key to wearing makeup, especially after fifty, is this: less is more, as in the photo to a higher place.

It'due south not about covering up our imperfections, just enhancing our natural beauty. Merely a fiddling bit of lipstick or blush tin can make any adult female feel prettier, which in turn, makes us feel more confident. Is wearing makeup diametrically opposed to embracing our age, confidence, authenticity and power? I would argue that it does not.

Beauty trends will come and go. Today, information technology'due south the "no-makeup look" but tomorrow information technology'll be back to faux lashes. What every woman should practice (whatever her age and whatever the electric current tendency) is wear makeup that volition make her feel pretty, polished, and modern.

For an every day, less-is-more expect for women over fifty, bank check out this curt video, which is office of "The Best of Everything After l" series for the AARP YouTube Channel.