I have just bought a make-up powder product that I believe is called a highlighter which gives me a charming extraterrestrial glow - I am really new to make-up but, I mean, the sensory experience of using lipsticks seems to be overall as good as sex or at least getting a bit of a snog much of the time & time spent with a big super-soft fluffy brush could never be described as wasted. Overall I am finding my making up experiments to be unexpectedly grounding & centering, for want of a better description.
I did always assume, as a non make-up person for nearly 40 years, that make-up was all about the way you look, my experience has been that that is not what it is about at all. My experience is that it is an Art like any Art & in that it inherently inspires a great mentally & emotionally relaxed state. It has absolutely been mainly about how it makes me feel, the attention I'm giving myself, the lovely sensory experience of using it on top of the wonderful feeling of being enhanced & looking somewhat better than I do really.
The only quasi downside I've noticed is that I am more self conscious, as in conscious of my bodily self as opposed to, say, being so consumed by nature that I have a semi perception of being present in the leaf & the bird I am seeing or sounds I'm hearing. Now, for me being very readily & easily dissociative, being more in my body is a good thing, it feels grounding. For others needing/wanting to connect more with their environment I recommend going make-up free in nature.
This was just my rambling overview, make up of it what you will.
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