Getting older. Wiser. More make-up.

Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis - times change and we are changing with them. This Latin proverb is also true when it comes to some of our habits. Thinking back of the few years behind me, beauty-wise I realized something: the older I get, the more make-up I use. It is definitely not because my skin is not as fresh and/or clean as it used to be (in fact, it has never been this fresh and clean) but because of something else, something I can't name.
But here are the facts: when I started using make-up, I used nothing else but eyeliner and some mascara. Then came concealer, and then powder and foundation. Then, I realized I should use an eyebrow liner as well. And then again, an eyebrow fixer. Later on I discovered the magic of liquid eyeliner, eye shadow base, make-up base and all its companions.
I decided to give it a post because I find it somehow amusing and yet a bit thought-wakening. The thing is, I am not obsessed with the way I look and I always tend to look natural. Yet somehow these tricks and products made their way to my bathroom and nowadays I wouldn't go out without them (at least not in a city). But to tell the truth, the reason might not be that they radically change my look -they do not -, it might be the obsession with possessing more and more because this is what the consumer society expects from me. And even if I consider myself a caring consumer who not only doesn't buy products that were tested on animals but who also manages to more or less resist the advertisements, who doesn't run to the store to get her hands on the latest anti-age cream, so despite all of this, I had to realize I am the prisoner of this society in some way. Of course, now I could say I do not mind and it would be true - why should I, if I still can lead a decent, (let's say it) intellectual life, without economic problems? Why should I, if I am not obsessed, maniac and empty-headed? Yet somehow I do mind because it also means that I secretly or not so secretly believe that without all these products I wouldn't be as good as I can be - and show me someone who says she intentionally wish to show her less-than-best self to others. May I say it is a vicious (yet, I must admit, entertaining) circle?