Natural Beauty

[The_Lady_Snow]

Originally Posted by Sachita

My hair is very dark and straight. I've always worn it past my waist and jet black. Now that I'm older with lots of gray I cut it just past my shoulders and lightened it. Anyhow, I'm thinking about letting it all just go natural and grow out.

I think I look a lot younger then I am. Or at least people tell me this and I have no wrinkles. I'm not so much concerned about how old I look but I would like to meet someone one day and of course I'm curious...

Do you think a woman with salt and pepper or gray hair is sexy?

I love women, I love their smell, their bodies and when they go au natural I find it to be beautiful. Women who choose not to cover up the salt and pepper are attractive to *me*, then again throw me in a place where women do not have to cover up their skin, scent, hair with chemilcal products and I am like a kid in a candy store because I get to smell, touch, enjoy them in their natural state. That's just me though





also do you think natural. no makeup etc is sexy?

I find women who choose not to wear make up just as sexy as women who don't. We have butch women here who do not wear make up and their sexy isn't valued on the amount of make up they do or don't wear. For me make up is like any other article we choose to put on, we do it because it makes *US* feel good and not because it's an expectation of what *beautiful* women are supposed to do.

Thanks

I could go on and on about the ridiculous standards which are sexist that are put on *beauty* and the ridiculous expectations of how women should look. It's outrageous to believe that a woman's beauty only comes or she is beautiful as long as she looks like she rolled out of bed looking like she just did a photo shoot for Vogue. I say if you want to try out your grey DO IT!! You can always make the choice to dye it or not.


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"And I'm certainly not one myself. I don't wear a lot of makeup — I favor the "natural" look — and I don't always wear makeup, but I'm honest enough to tell you that when I do wear it, it is not my "choice." I wear it because a lifetime of being a woman and of bearing the fusillade of advertising and Hollywood and fashion imagery — when was the last time you saw a woman not wearing makeup on a billboard or on T.V.? — has left me with no illusions about the fact that makeup is, for women, considered standard in 21st Century America. A certain amount of makeup is "good grooming." It's the default. As women, we don't have the choice to engage with the beauty industrial complex: it's so ever-present in our lives that women who don't wear makeup are commonly taken as defining themselves against it. To not wear makeup, for many women, is to invite misunderstanding or, worse, judgment."


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