Are You Prettier than a 5th Grader?

*This blog post is dedicated to all women who have reached the age where you’ve started wearing makeup.*

The other day I was watching an E! News 2016 Golden Globes recap where they were covering kids(seemingly between 7 and 10 years old) who were styled to look exactly like celebrities they admired on the red carpet.

It was very cute.  Mostly girls though(probably since the male celebrities pretty much all wore black tuxes and the female celebrities’ clothing offered much more variety to emulate). One boy was showing off Wiz Khalifah’s unique look and there were about three or four girls..lol.. I recall one of them was dressed to look exactly like Amy Schumer..lol..adorable, another dressed like Jennifer Lopez almost to the 9’s. And there was a fierce little girl dressed as the sassy Taraji P. Henson.  These girls were posing exactly like the grown up female celebrities. Their faces even kinda resembled them.  Their glam squads seemed to have missed zero details; they even had matching hairstyles and seemly identical applications of makeup to what the celebrities had on that evening. Check ’em out..

Which brings me to my purpose for this transformative, ground-breaking or shall I say foundation-cracking post…

A stream of thought came to mind upon seeing the pretty makeup on those pretty little girls:

I, like most others, can look at a pretty little 10 year old girl with makeup on(for whatever reason) and think, “hm..she doesn’t need that to look pretty.” ..Because we are used to seeing them without it..their natural pretty faces.  We never even think “damn, she needs make up!” –Like we(men and women) do to young and older women..in our minds…at least.

Make-up originally served as a cheating tool in the female gender’s natural inclination towards competition in the area of beauty.  The idea was to tastefully exaggerate the “Double L”= LLove =(Love&Lust) biological (particularly circulatory) reflexes (or LLove Reflexes) when someone you’re attracted to is present in mind.  The lipstick: reddening/coloring of the lips to imitate/exaggerate the natural flow of blood to the lips when feeling romantically stimulated, the blush: to imitate/exaggerate the rush of blood to the cheeks when bashful or charmed, the eye-liner & mascara: darkening around the eyes to imitate/exaggerate the dilation of the pupils when excited about a particular interest, the fake eye-lashes: to imitate/exaggerate the flirtatious batting of the eyes.  These “Double L” biological reflexes are natural triggers that activate the “PC Appeal” in men while exaggerating the “VO Appeal” in women.*(See note below)

[*Note:  The paragraph above introduced three original terms I created. Double L = LLove= (Love&Lust) Reflexes…or LLove Reflexes is the first;—it’s more-so self-explanatory. And I’ll explain the next two as follows:  You see, men are attracted to the natural Vulnerability and “Offering”(VO) Appeal of women.   And women are attracted to the natural Prowess and Command(PC) Appeal of men.  This doesn’t exclude–>Homosexuals are attracted to the same appeals.]

Now, as much as I’m stimulated (like most every man on the planet) by these “facial beauty steroids”,  makeup is actually doing a disservice to women and men alike.

I’ll Explain:

So, we all understand that makeup is essentially a “cheating tool” in the area of beauty. Once the first woman started wearing makeup(most likely one whose face was starting to age in adulthood) they had a cheating, unfair, UNNECESSARY advantage over all the rest of the women in society who were maintaining a natural, valid competition in beauty/desirability among the female gender.   As your male family member of our human race, I’m honestly telling you that for most men–if not all..when we see you without your make-up the next morning (especially–but not only–when the relationship is new) we observe your face with at least the slightest disappointment and think to ourselves, “man, you’re not as pretty as you were at the gala last night.”  You see,  when you wear makeup, you are setting up an unnecessarily intensified expectancy of your beauty by men(and women for that matter).

Furthermore,  it makes it harder to see and appreciate the natural beauty of women when most women on the planet wear make-up.  It sets our eyes at an unrealistically/unnaturally higher mark and thus makes every female–whether she wears makeup or not..whether she’s pretty or not–look at least the slightest bit less attractive without it. –Especially because many start thinking that they are not as pretty without it.  Your thoughts play a large part in the creation of your facial appearance especially.  The energy around you plays another.   I touched on the former of this phenomenon in my earlier blog post–>“Ever wonder why there are people who look alike but are not necessarily related?”

Finally,  If you want to tighten up your understanding and solutions of the matter, just revert back to the observation of a pretty, 10-year old, fifth grader.  Her face is not a disappointment in beauty because ALL girls her age go about their days WITHOUT MAKEUP.

Beautiful individuals(women) and the beauty industry need focus only on the nurturing and maintenance of natural facial beauty.   Moisturizing of the face and lips works beautifully.

Enter Suddenly Seymour (pronounced *See More*):

Love,

Kareem Supreme

P.S.-The title of this blog is a play off of the title of hit 2007-2015 TV Show: “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?”

P.S.S.- Original scientific terms introduced (in bold) in this blog:

-Double L Reflexes = LLove Reflexes

-VO Appeal

-PC Appeal

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