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Modren @Modren12/1/2023, 2:24 AM

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Shel @shel11/30/2023, 10:41 PM

It just occurred to me only now that hundreds of thousands possibly millions of cisgender heterosexual women had been applying a full face of makeup every day and then putting a surgical face mask over most of their face for COVID reasons and then complaining about how gross it is to wear a mask and comply with mask mandates and trying to figure out a million hacks to prevent makeup from smudging.

GIRL YOUR FACE IS COVERED WHY ARE YOU PUTTING MAKEUP ON THAT PART OF YOUR FACE IF YOU'RE GONNA BE WEARING A MASK ANYWAY

This explains so fucking much

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Daeren @Daeren11/30/2023, 10:45 PM

rapid flashing through my normally vague memory of faces in turbo fast forward from roughly August 2020 to the present day working the library desk and taking exponentially increasing amounts of psychic damage

Shel @shel12/1/2023, 1:24 AM

yeah in retrospect a LOT of my patrons were wearing makeup under their masks and I had just been going "yeah their face is just really glowy and blushy like that" like nope world ending gotta wear foundation

eggbug enthusiast @aidan11/30/2023, 10:46 PM

in places where maskwearing is way more accepted as a daily practice (read: east asia) a not insignificant part of why they've been so widely and consistently adopted is because it allows women to go outside without the pressure of wearing makeup! nice little positive feedback loop that i definitely appreciate. as someone whose only daily makeup has only ever been eyeliner and some sort of lip thing... i do really miss wearing a fun lip product when going out though

Shel @shel12/1/2023, 1:23 AM

and yet in America if you search "mask makeup" you get "how to stop your mask from ruining your lip makeup!!" and viral photos of people showing how gross their masks get all covered in makeup....

I haven't done any makeup in yeaaarrrrssssss and recently I've been wanting to get back into it but the mask is so demotivating like I wanna do really plump nude lips and there's really no point to it... but I might start wearing mascara again

AutHAMn Leaves @literalHam12/1/2023, 4:30 AM

so this is very interesting! i put together from context that maybe you had been looking at youtube makeup tutorials and seen a bunch that are about doing make up for underneath a face mask, so i decided to search for it earlier today on a youtube account i barely use to see what videos you were maybe seeing. i saw two or three videos that took the word "mask" to mean 'surgical masks' and the like, but among dozens of videos taking "mask" to mean either "special effects/creature mask" or "cleansing/relaxing spa face mask". I turned my vpn off to double check that it wasnt being influenced by thinking I'm in Australia, and got basically all the same videos. So i do wonder why youtube thinks you particularly want to see these but generic user with little history wants to see monster masks and face-peels

Shel @shel12/1/2023, 4:39 AM

I think I specified further “face mask” “covid mask” etc and forgot the exact phrasing because library science makes it second nature to me to revise until I get what I’m looking for

AutHAMn Leaves @literalHam12/1/2023, 4:52 AM

ooooh i did try a few permutations of search terms but i did not think to add "covid". i see them now

AutHAMn Leaves @literalHam11/30/2023, 11:36 PM

this is deeply horrifying to me. you have described a horror movie premise.

AutHAMn Leaves @literalHam11/30/2023, 11:54 PM

12 year old me is just like SEE I WAS RIGHT, women (cishet women specifically but i didnt know that at the time) wear make-up mostly out of conditioned fear of reprisal, and its horrific that we make girls hate and fear their natural faces. the normal girls told me thats just the way it is, that make up is fun actually, and i'm the weird one for not wanting to wear makeup. but 'huge swaths of people put on daily full face of make up which is mostly covered by mandatory mask during a global pandemic, do not think its weird'? sorry but there is no feminist explanation for that. thats some fucking socially conditioned traumatic response right there. thats like, literally the panopticon at work, self-policing even when no one can literally see you. i am both terrified and vindicated. cishet women are not okay, yall.

Shel @shel12/1/2023, 1:23 AM

right???? the world was ENDING and people were like "yeah but i have to wear lipstick under my mask"

Michaela Sue @beige-alert12/1/2023, 1:36 AM

I had remembered a newspaper (wapo I guess) article from early in the pandemic about how both people whose faces, for many possible reasons, look very visibly unusual, and also people who just didn't want to put on makeup, found covering their faces to be fantastic. I had remembered it as primarily about the people with one or another condition being happy to not get stared at, but when I went looking for it earlier this year I saw it was actually mostly the food-in-their-teeth and unshaved and no makeup thing.

For me it was the most amazing gender thing, I instantly went from That One Guy with a beard who wore dresses who everyone fuckn remembered to ... an unnoticeable random women who people would actually refer to as "she."

But for some reason people went from "this is great" to "never doing that again even as I literally die" just as people went from not catching a cold for a year and being super happy about that to insisting that getting much more seriously ill than they ever got pre-2020 is not just fine but good actually.