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If you’re a woman in America, it’s assumed that you love hair and makeup products, days at the salon, free makeovers at the makeup counter in the department store, spa days, contouring tips…you get the idea. Makeup isn’t just an industry—it’s a culture. In many friend groups, doing hair and makeup is the social activity. So if you’re a woman who just couldn’t care less about doing her hair and makeup, who sees chapstick as a form of makeup, and believes so long as you brush your hair, you should be ready for the day, you can feel a bit left out. If you are into hair and makeup, you probably wonder, “How big of a deal can it really be to not like these things?” We’ll show you. Here are struggles only women who don’t care about hair and makeup understand.

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Getting ready together—what’s that?

When your friends want to meet two hours before the party to get ready together, you’re baffled and bored. You already got ready at home. But if you sit out the getting ready part of the evening, you’ll look antisocial. So you go to your friend’s house, and pretend to poke at your hair while your friends contour their cheekbones.

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The salon upsell. Ugh.

On the rare occasion you do go to the salon, it’s just to get a simple haircut. You dread the part of the visit where the stylist tries to sell you on this relaxer, that curling mouse, this styling gel and that dry shampoo. Okay, maybe you’ll take the dry shampoo—it feeds into your lazy girl habits.

 

 

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Your beauty blogger friend is insulted

You have a friend who either works at a makeup store, has her own makeup line, or makes a living as a beauty blogger. You have no interest in what she does, which upsets her sometimes. You’ve never watched one of her videos on doing the perfect smokey eye, and you’ve never wanted to try the free samples she gets from work.

 

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It’s apparently ironic that you love clothes

People often say, “How can you love clothes so much and not care at all about makeup?” But you don’t see the connection. You can love a good pair of jeans, and not take any interest in bronzing your cheeks. Just because you want your butt to look good doesn’t mean you have to want gold shimmer on your eyelids.

 

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You cut and color your own hair

You cut and color your own hair. It doesn’t always turn out great but it’s nothing a bun or a hat can’t fix. People will try to convince you that spending $200 is worth it for natural-looking sun-kissed highlights, and you don’t have the heart to tell them you don’t even notice their pricey hair color change.