Presented with more than one way to do something, I almost always choose the easiest option. I feel fine about that: I’m not lazy, I’m just efficient. And if my makeup doesn’t go on perfectly because I chose to smear it on my face with my hands instead of fiddle with proper tools, so what" At least it’s on, and at least it took under three minutes. That’s something to be proud of, I think.
Or thought, rather.
What I’m not proud of: believing this for so long. Because once I actually learned how to use makeup brushes of my own accord, and not because some makeup artist or person on the internet told me which ones I “absolutely need” (I do not respond well to that stuff), I was able to accept that they exist for a reason. That reason is because they make applying makeup easier and also better. Easier and better, even, than the hands-as-tools approach, which I should not have been surprised by given that most primates figured out just how handy external tools can be long before I did. I love makeup brushes now (!), but it is important to note that I still only use two, and would actually recommend that other efficient individuals like myself who would like to join chimpanzees as established tool-users also begin with approximately two. Because I really, truly believe that unless you’re a person who regularly wears “dramatic eye makeup“?and if you are, I’m sure you already own a vast wardrobe of brush...