No Motivation to Wear Makeup

Deborah Kristina
3 min readMay 31, 2024
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What is the point of being pretty when men don’t think twice about punching me in the face?

I have felt discouraged from wearing any makeup as the time I know that I will spend doing myself up will be futile. Putting makeup on doesn’t boost my confidence; it doesn’t cancel out the swears, the ‘I don’t give a shit what you need’ statements. I’ve been subjected to working long and hard. I haven’t been held nor…

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Deborah Kristina

Author of ‘A Girl All Alone Somewhere in the World’, ‘Confessions and Thoughts of a Girl in Turkey’, ‘From Just a Girl Grown Up in America’. (Amazon.com)