{"id":5262,"date":"2016-06-04T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2016-06-04T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:23:09","slug":"red-lipstick-kajal-lip-balm-relationship-feminism-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5262","title":{"rendered":"The Girl Without the Red Lipstick: Why I Keep Saying No To Make-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span><\/p><\/div><p> \n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ack in 2004, I was eight years old and auditioned for the role of a princess in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/ssc-students-school-hierarchy-system\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">school<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> play. The role I landed was that of a prince. My drama teacher told me that I got it because I looked like a boy and that my personality would suit the role. All it took for her to make that assumption was my cropped hair.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was only the beginning of my tryst with the world reminding me time and again that there was \u201csomething wrong\u201d with my tomboyish ways. But the more everyone told me to stop \u201cbeing like a boy\u201d, the more I resisted anything that was even remotely girly. My hair continued to remain short, I wore oversized T-shirts and loose pants, refusing to put on a hairband, leave alone a dress. And I was not alone; I had <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/in-memory-of-friends-1990-documentary-1984-pogrom-sikhs-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">friends<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who were girls and a lot like me.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But it all began to change as we entered our teens. As our bodies began to transform, the girls in my class started to get little makeovers. Many started <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/botox-middle-class-woman\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">waxing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, some got their noses pierced, and almost everyone started applying kajal and lip balm. I continued to detest it all. It didn\u2019t help that my mother did not use any make-up either.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That didn\u2019t mean my resistance to \u201cgirly\u201d things didn\u2019t have a price \u2013 or didn\u2019t take a toll on me. I\u2019d hate social outings and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sunburn-music-festival-pune-hyderabad-netas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">festivals<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the most because that was the time my friends dolled up. I, with my chapped lips and baggy pants, would stick out like a sore thumb. Pleas by my classmates to \u201cwear some rouge\u201d or taunts by relatives to \u201cat least use some powder\u201d would only make me more irritable.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I still remember a Children\u2019s Day party at school. I was in Class IX. My friends were strutting around in heels and dresses with their red <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/lipstick-under-my-burkha-cbfc-pahlaj-nihalani-konkona-sen-sharma-ratna-pathak-aahana-kumra-bollywood-cencorship\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lipstick<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and soft, smokey eyes, all hyping each other up. I was in my usual chequered shirt and jeans, almost invisible, no compliments coming my way. I\u2019d be lying if I said I did not want the attention or I wasn\u2019t tempted to give in to peer pressure, but for me that meant accepting that there was\u00a0 something in me that needed fixing via make-up. So, every time somebody offered me a kajal pencil, I said no.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Somewhere, there was also the fear that if I picked up an eyeliner or a blush, I would be inviting more scrutiny.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was a fun tryst for most teenage girls, turned into a sort of fear for me. What if I picked up the wrong shade of foundation or applied excessive eyeshadow? What if I looked funny with the lip gloss? So, the slightest curiosity that I would have about <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/india-puberty-make-up-foundation-bronzer\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">make-up<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was killed early by an inherent need to avoid any confrontation with the Mean Girls of my life.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I convinced myself that I was a rebel. Yet despite my best efforts at self-acceptance, that feeling of being the odd one out, manifested in insidious ways. Well into my mid-teens, I continued to say no to make-up, but there were other ways I tried to fit in. At the age of 18, I began waxing my face which complained in the form of a million red rashes with every visit to the parlour. I gave in to my \u201cfeminine side\u201d after a boy I liked joked on our first date that we should immediately break up if didn\u2019t wax my \u201chairy arms\u201d. By now, everyone around me was getting <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/love-struck-romance-airport\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">romantic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attention, and I wasn\u2019t ready to sit this one out.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Well into my mid-teens, I continued to say no to make-up, but there were other ways I tried to fit in.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Months later, after persistent pestering from my bestie, I went to buy kajal, convincing myself that it didn\u2019t really \u201cqualify as make-up\u201d. And there began the journey of my eternal dependance with kohl. I went from wearing it occasionally to not stepping out of the house without it. Eventually I gave up the loose tees and baggy jeans. I occasionally started wearing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/why-i-ditched-high-heels-and-found-empowerment-in-flats\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">heels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But, unlike the movies, it didn\u2019t make me a different person. I didn\u2019t overnight become feminine or stop hanging with my gang of boys.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s when I realised that my problem was not with make-up, but with makeover culture. The one that propagates that the way for women to find themselves, to be accepted and not mocked at, is by embracing their more \u201cfeminine sides\u201d. And this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/ranveer-singh-making-femininity-manly-again\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">femininity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was often defined narrowly \u2013 with body-hugging clothes; long, mostly straight hair; and tons of make-up.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pop culture has been fixated with makeover culture for decades. \u201cWalt Disney\u2019s Cinderella is a poster-girl of makeover culture. Unveiled in 1950, the film asserted the power of changing our appearance as an escape from drudgery and a route to romance and the happily-ever-after. Now the spirit of Cinderella lives on, in a more digital and dispersed form across the media landscape,\u201d says <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/whats-behind-the-urge-to-uncover-an-authentic-self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an essay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> titled \u201cThe Makeover Trap\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I was young, we read Meg Cabot\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Princess Diaries<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and watched <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the desi version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ugly Betty<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These books and shows introduce us to makeover culture at an impressionable age. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/the-princess-switch-netflix-love-actually-the-christmas-prince\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Princess Diaries<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Mia Thermopolis needed to be groomed, her braces and chunky glasses removed, her hairstyle changed, in order to assume her duties as a princess. Jassi was a clumsy, unconfident woman, until she got a makeover, which magically fuelled her self-esteem. The notion that a woman becomes a best version of herself only when she is beautified \u2013 in a very very myopic way defined by society \u2013 has been sown in our psyche.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing up, I always related to the clumsy Jassi than the sexy one; I\u2019d rather befriend a Mia with the braces than the one with perfectly sparkly teeth. So when my teenage friends tempted me with an eyeshadow or rouge, I felt I was being unfaithful to the Jaasis and Mias of the world. I wasn\u2019t then resisting make-up but makeover culture. The flawed belief that confidence, success, and happiness comes packed in your vanity kit.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now in my 20s, I am self-aware and can sidestep such pandering, even though my <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/ranveer-singh-making-femininity-manly-again\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">relationship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with make-up remains slightly tetchy. I feel like I have reached a compromise over the years. I have grown my hair and though I don\u2019t remember the last time I wore heels, I have become a master of eyeliner. I know for sure that I don\u2019t need that red lipstick to boost my confidence or find my true self, but I\u2019m also aware that applying one won\u2019t make me a better person or worse.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our bodies began to transform when we turned teens, the girls in my class started to get little makeovers. Many started waxing, some got their noses pierced, and almost everyone started applying kajal and lip balm. 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