No make-up, bare skin

  Eva Longoria
 
     Although touted as ‘the most beautiful’, without her make up, she’s quite ‘normal’ looking.  This is the case in MOST of the pictures on this entry.  I started with ‘Red’s’ last candidate, only because, (like many guys) a beautiful face catches our eyes and turns our insides upside down, EVERYtime!   But, for me .. this test of the pudding .. a female WITHOUT her ‘face’ is crucial.   The girl that is still wallowing in silky sheets, while I’m brushing my teeth, shouldn’t be SO different to see, as to be a shadow of the girl I brought home.  I HAVE had that .. SURPRISE!! ..  TWICE only (thank goodness!) and it was so disheartening .. like being tricked .. betrayed.
 
      If you woke to a guy with a rug of dark hair covering his back or lying at peace, with his dentures tucked in his sheets somewhere visible, you might see my point better or at least, have a clue to my shock of the unexpected.   My pet peeve is shaved eyebrows that are penciled in.  The first time (of my two ‘shocks of a lifetime’) was rolling over to go nose to nose with what I thought was my best lover to date.  She was only 22, with two gorgeous eyes the color of Marilyn Manson’s spectacular left one.  But,  with her eyelids closed, I had only her 12 hair ‘sprigs’, above the nose on each eyebrow (with a few scattered along the ‘arch’) to define her brows to try to recognize her sleeping aura.  It startled the hell out of me!  I backed up so violently, confused on the where and who, that I roused her.  She murmur’ed something and I spoke softly to settle her back to sleep, so I could wonder on this for a bit.   She actually scared me for a second!

 
     I’m not a ‘purist’ and certainly NOT a prude.  I’m familiar with plucking and shaping, bikini waxing and fine fuzzy hairs that form a female moustache on many women.  These aren’t as repulsive to men, as you might think .. a kiss that tickles, redden hair follicles.  Repulsive is something dramatic.  Of course, the depth of the relationship, changes that dynamic incredibly!   It erases so many female phobias.  Blemishes may make you feel unsightly .. freckles may drive you crazy, but they’re not dramatic and tell men a different story, than they tell you in the mirror.
 
     Here are the rest of the ‘no make-up’ faces.  This isn’t anything new to you, but it was enlightening for me.   The simile I might use, to compare women trying so hard to be more enhanced by a common ‘look’, like runway models, movie stars and celebrities, is this.  Think of a field of wild flowers with varying colors and shapes, blossoming on different length stems.  If they could think, these beautiful colorful florals, waving to the breeze of a light wind, that they were lacking, because all around them were brighter hues or longer stems or several leaves, instead of their few, they might seek to be more like the one in their group that they admired the most.  Is that what happened to a daisy field?  Are daisies in mass or roses clustered on their vines, more appealing than a field of flowers that offered variety and complicated choices for the passersby to pluck them for their intimate expression?  Each of you is entirely unique and glorious.  There are things about you that belong to you alone that are in you to be discovered and praised.  Think about it and stop shaving your eyebrows off. 

 
 
        Jessica Simpson
 
    
 Gisele Bundchen
 
 
 
  Heidi Klum
 
  Amy Smart
 
  Kate Winslet
This doesn’t look make-up free to me .. is it?
 
  Pam Anderson
 
  Kirsten Dunst
 
  Jessica Biel
 
  Hilary Duff
 
 
<img src="http://www.aolcdn.com/red_galleries/alicia-silverstone-without-makeup-400a070507.jpg&quot; alt="Alicia Silverstone" title="AliciaSilverstone” />  Alicia Silverstone
 
  Britney Spears
 
     Surprises?  I’d bet you’re prettier than most of them.