I started wearing make up when I was 14 years old. I’ve always loved to work with colored eyeshadow at home, and really try to play with it and better my skills. When I’d been in our bathroom for usually more than half an hour, my mom would always say the same thing to get me to stop: She’d say “No man wants a wife who cannot go out in public without spending a lot of time on her appearance.” Sometimes she’d also tell me that if I went out wearing the same amount of make up that I did when I practiced my skills at home, I would attract r*pe perpetrators “on purpose” – like it was a thing I could control.
