No Make-Up November

This is the first year I have ever heard of "No Make-up November" (NMN). Of course I have always heard about "No SHAVE November," but that has always generally been for guys. This has me thinking. I've noticed a new trend lately - several of my friends have deleted their facebook's. How does this connect to NMN? Women are starting to actively choose not to wear makeup.

So my question is:

Why are women deciding to stop wearing make-up?

I desperately want the women who are doing this to blog because I want to know every thought that goes through their brain to give me a better picture of what society's standards of "beauty" are actually doing to women.

This morning I'm camped out in Destinations (drinking a white cafe mocha and it is delicious) beginning my research for a final project in my women's "Beauty, Feminism and Consumer Culture" and I've decided this is going to be my project topic.

I am genuinely curious if this choosing to stop or cut back drastically on make-up/beauty rituals is a passing trend where women are doing it because it's the 'cool' thing to do or if it is because they have personally decided to determine their value excluding societies opinions about where true beauty and value come from.

Did I participate in NMN? No. I'm the first to admit I'm totally impacted by societies expectations for beauty and use make-up pretty much every day. Not nearly as much as I did in high-school but there is usually at least a little bit of makeup on my face. I'm considering starting the New Year with one resolution - at midnight taking off all my make-up and going the first month of the year make-up free.

Normally I don't advocate people to comment on blogs because I like communicating with y'all in person BUT I would really like to hear what you have to say about this. Is this a trend or a genuine start of a new phase in women's beauty? What are you seeing?

No Makeup November: Rave Ministries