Makeup and cultural questions
Makeup a sin?
I don’t think wearing makeup is wrong. It’s all about who is wearing it and just like other similar issues "why" and "what" culture. It is about intentionality. Are we trying to use makeup to deceive others about our gender?, or possibly used by women to cause others fall into temptation during a night out, or even for our own vanity?
If you are a woman and aren’t using it for the purpose of sin or as a result of sin, it is fine. Some folk use it to cover scars or to contour a bit bcuz of insecurity but if you *arent* trying to use makeup to look like a actual celebrity via yt tutorial, or to look like female if you were born male, etc that's fine.
People on tv use excessive or bright makeup to look normal & natural with the scene lighting (even news anchors, but even the men in that situation use it for a reason, [they also arent claiming to be a woman, but are men living as men]. And same with Plays actors like on broadway so audience in back can see characters coloring; again, males as male, females as female.
So it depends on the purpose but...
some wear it creatively or unnatural looking, [I've seen excessive natural looks that look clownish], so I just caution a bit, bcuz you are "to be a witness" and "a living sacrifice to God", and what you wear can repel people from you just as a tattooed-up person can keep people from even a gospel convo with you. Light and natural is best, but creatively? Just consider where you are or are going. Church, no. Work, highly probably no. Face Painters event or convention, sure. Holiday party, maybe. Man wearing it to look female, no. Excessive look at a kids reading event at library, highly probably no. You know what I'm saying.
As a Christian woman, you need to present yourself properly as a holy one set apart to God, and not as one who is of the world. It affects your visual and verbal witness.
Here are a few more things to understand about this topic as it touches on all these varied issues, and important if you are American, because we are a melting pot but are becoming a global place where everyone comes to but fewer are assimilating into protestant/Christianity as in the past. We need to live as our society and culture always was. It affects you visually as a witness of Christianity. We need to hold to what it always has been in America and overall as a historical Christian. We leave pagan things behind when we come to Christ. We need to be seen different and good example to the world.
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