Do you wear makeup

[Debra]

Yeah in fact, most foundation provides some SPF.

Although I believe it's usually good to moisturize your face before you put it on and after you take it off.

[Suzy]

I always wear makeup when out.  I also wear a moisturizer with spf30.  I have tried the cheap kinds and was not too satisfied until a friend at a salon recommended some to me called Bio Fond.  Expensive?  Yes. But absolutely nothing works like it.  So it is worth it to me.  I have found that the cheap kinds of powder work just fine to set it.  Personally I just love how makeup makes me feel.

[rejennyrated]

Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. Some fascinating answers and different points of view.

It might be interesting to see how these results compared with those from the cis community, but unfortunately I can't think of a good way to find out.

Anyway glad to see I'm not the only makeup semi-refusnik. I will put it on for a really important do, or when I truly want to dazzle someone, but I'm actually vain enough to like my face without it so most of the time I feel like I would be gilding the lily. (I told you I was vain!) 

[Cruelladeville]

My b/f's teenage daughter Jen is a clothes and make-up junkie, like all girls her age are....so where you are age wise on your own trip of feminity denotes the investment in what you do for going out....I would imagine woman way into long-term marriages also worry less about their female personas, than when they were in their key mating attracting days...

I suspect we gals with TG histories are way more focused than typical on looking good, as we've had to work so darn hard for it....

But yep it's been an interesting thread...

Kool new avatar pic btw Jerica....like it! 

Looking back I think in the early years I wore more as armour, so to speak... and working in an industry that was heavily image focused...meant you had no choice but to keep up...

But as I've aged most times I wear minimal now...

And my b/f doesn't like the overdone stuff either, but clean hair, neat nails and a tasteful lipstick, with a lift of lip gloss, is his fave fresh but real look on me...

And I'm a go with that...lol

[milktea]

When I was getting my makeup lessons, it was stressed that I must wash it off before going to bed otherwise my skin will age rapidly, so you may be right, Milktea.  However, I think that if you cleanse your face regularly (no soap) and use lotions regularly using makeup won't be an issue.

hmm assuming that everyone sleep for 8hrs like i do, washing off your makeup before going to bed means 14hrs on makeup per 24hrs, and that would be perfectly ok or even good to the skin as opposed to putting it on for 24hrs which kate here says causes the skin to age rapidly??? doesn't make sense to me...

but again if you're exposed to lotsa uv or living in dry places i supposed makeup is the lesser of two evils...my place here is hot and humid, lots of sun but i'm indoors almost all day long, which means no makeup necessary!!! yeah!!!

[eshaver]

I wear make -up to cover the Roseaceia . I also use brow liner to fill my eyebrows too. ellen

[givemebody]

sometimes I would wear makeup. I was always told that it makes you "old before your time" by my grandmother. and that a long time ago make up was made out of aborted fetus. don't know if it's any truth to that.

[Debra]

Kool new avatar pic btw Jerica....like it! 

Thanks girl =)

[K8]

Don't assume too much, Bibilinda.  I read it as just a fun way of saying 'no' to the question. 

And, as it says in the thread, some MTF's wear little or no makeup - especially after many years of having relaxed into their femaleness.  I know lots of cis-women who wear no makeup, so it makes sense to me that some MTF's wouldn't wear makeup either.

- Kate