Not only is most makeup toxic for the skin, but also for the eyes, nose, mouth, lungs, mind, emotions and spirit.
Most females feel incomplete without makeup.
You know your culture has reached a peak of craziness when a makeover is a coveted thing for a female. Yet most males do not have to endure such expectations. We can be certain the current practice of females wearing makeup is a suboptimal variation of face painting worn by both genders. (NG1 36/54)
Of course, we've lost understandings as to the significance. Thus the practice has continued to morph towards the unhealthy, which is what always happens when understandings are lost.
Facing Natural Facts
See UC#975In UC#1493, we also already found clues that tell us wearing makeup is a practice related to tattoos and identifying yourself with a totem. Thus face painting is a form of sign language that communicates a lot of meaning to those who understand. Clearly, today, the totem has become the pubescent female totem and another totem is the general totem of the society. Another proof of our loss of understanding is that red lips and red lipstick are signs of prepubescence, thus not worn by those who had reached puberty. Instead, the pubescent blackened or darkened their lips.
At one point in history, the Egyptians stopped blackening their teeth and lips, but instead began blackening their eyes and painting the oval circle round them, thus elongating the natural shape of their eyes. Also females put a band of green beneath their eyes to signify reproduction. (NG1 95/113) The eye is one of the first natural mirrors. It represents the circle and the gestator. Meri is one of the names of the eye, water, mirror, reproducer, moon and sun. (NG1 532/550)
Because cycles change, so does the symbolism. At one point, the second truth of puberty was represented by the color white. Faces and/or bodies were painted white to communicate the pubescent status. (NG2 8/16) So far, what we can determine is that beauty was based more on a person's ability to express the appropriate symbolism based on their totem, other identifiers and based on the occasion.
Another thing we can be certain of is that face and body paint was made locally by individuals, tribes and villages using plants and rocks and soil and animal fat. There was no chemistry lab and manufacturing facility making toxic products bearing only the meaning of freely chosen vanity. Also the wearing of makeup, for some females, is performed under the stress and duress of avoiding the feeling of ugliness and feeling partially dressed, thus not ready to face the world. (AE1 95/105) For any topic or piece of information, there's always a certain number of people who remain staunch hopelessly devoted defenders of the current matrix, regardless. These are the ones who say things like....
I ain't no naga. Bump you!
I'm not gonna plant no garden or even one fruit tree.
I ain't gonna rethink my views on makeup and perhaps reduce my usage.
I don't care how harmful or inconsistent or contradictory or unsubstantiated my logic is, I ain't gonna never ever change.
Makeup Used To Be Called Paint
The word “paint” in earlier forms of language was called Khu, Uat, Mat-ter and Ru (thus rouge). (BB 325/337, 361/373) Each of these words have been discussed in greater detail, but simply put, each of these words represent the whole total, thus represent duality, thus represent the seven elementals who are each symbolized by a different color. At different points in history, each color has been used to represent the first truth and then the second truth.Thus both Sut and Horus, the Devil and Jesus, the elder and the younger, the moon and sun have been symbolized by each of the seven colors.
Thus both the devil and god have been represented as black, white and red.
These understandings were carried out by humans in their face and body painting. As we know, the first and primary deities were, and still are, aspects of nature that were not humans and not represented as human until recently.
Thus the color symbolism of face and body painting applied to the moon and sun and other animals and insects and plants and parts of nature that were used to express natural occurrences within natural phenomena of both the superhuman and human. (NG2 358/366, 432/440, AE1 17/27) As an additional note on body painting, mummies were also often painted. (AE1 95/105)
We the people of today often paint our faces and bodies to represent the totem of our sports team. Also, at many festivals, face painting is a main attraction. What symbols are painted on the faces of children? Why?
Subconscious Meanings Of Wearing Makeup
Nowadays, one of the primary reasons females wear makeup is to add color. I've heard several white women say themselves that without makeup they look like a ghost, i.e. do not look vibrant or look like they are knock knock knocking on death's door. So instead of today's females wearing makeup to express the sign language that connects them to superhuman nature, some of today's females wear makeup to look healthier by adding color.So in other words, subconsciously, today's women are trying to emulate the women of long ago whose natural beauty was only accentuated in accordance with proper understanding of symbolism. It was the presentation of the proper symbolism that showed the person had mature logic to understand how to honor the duality of the human self through symbols of the superhuman. And this is why, many of the face paintings we see on men and women, in Africa and other places, have different designs. Yet, we the silly, denigrate it, because we are the lost ones.
To be a colored woman was and still is a symbol of beauty, even though for different reasons then and now.References: BB; NG1; NG2; AE1; AE2
