Read This If You Hide Behind Makeup

Megan Minutillo
3 min readFeb 20, 2019
Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

I wish girls would stop picking on how some of us do our makeup. They talk so much about how people contour, or highlight, or do their lashes. But can’t they just see that she’s hiding her face from the rest of the world? That the makeup is there to block what she doesn’t want everyone to see?

I asked a bunch of students in a workshop I was teaching to write down what was on their mind.

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Megan Minutillo

Essayist, poet, and theatre producer. I write stories about self-awareness, IVF, and finding your footing in life’s messy moments. Instagram: @meganminutillo.