Most of us won’t, because it attacks that person for something that’s out of their control.
Even when you think to yourself, ”I can’t even look at them”, you keep it to yourself.
After all it is your opinion, it doesn’t mean they are ugly.
Isn’t true beauty in the eye of the beholder?
A beauty blogger, Em Ford (London), recently posted pictures of herself without make-up online.
According to Ford, the pictures she posted over a period of three months attracted over 100 000 comments, many of which are abusive.
She then made a video, titled You Look Disgusting, showing her with and without make-up, with some of the comments, such as “wtf is wrong with her face,” “revolting” and “so ugly” flashing up around her.
Ford has an acne problem and many of the commenters outright condemned her looks.
The video, which Ford put up on Youtube, was watched more than three million times in three days.
In a blog post accompanying the three-minute film, she wrote: “Over the past few months, I’ve received thousands of messages from people all over the world who suffer or have suffered from acne, an insecurity or self-confidence issue.
“I wanted to create a film that showed how social media can set unrealistic expectations on both women and men,” she said.
“One challenge many people face today is that, as a society, we’re so used to seeing false images of perfection, and comparing ourselves to unrealistic beauty standards, that it can be hard to remember the most important thing: you are beautiful.”
Since the video went online, a number of supportive comments have been posted on YouTube and more than 87 000 people have ”liked” the video.
One woman, Isik Mater, commented: “Most of the human beings are so horrible … you look beautiful with or without makeup.”
I’ll be honest, I’m not fan of make-up, but I understand that some people use it for themselves.
Many people wear make-up in order to look or feel good, which is their choice, but isn’t something chronically wrong with society when we feel we always have cover up the way we really look in order to feel good.
“Makeup is the root cause of acne or skin problems for over 30 per cent of my female patients,” said Dr Ijaz Ahmed, a practicing dermatologist at Ziauddin University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.
Other sources say make-up might aggravate acne in people who have a history with it.
Make-up is also often blamed for other adverse effects on the and even as a cause of headaches.
So the very thing that is used to cover up some blemishes and pimples might make them worse, causing a vicious downward spiral.
I, for one, know that there is not and should not be a single set of criteria for beauty.
Although many people think your skin has to be powdery and uniformly coloured, your lips have to be so red they make your mugs and cups look like they come from a Tarantino film and your eyes have to resemble those from an anime film, there are many forms of beauty.
Despite what we have been led to believe by others, media and even ourselves, there are no set rules for beauty, everyone likes and loves something different.
Personally, I find that a certain amount of marks and imperfections on a face are the very things that make it perfect, because they make it real, give character, which I prefer to appearance-changing powder, but, once again, to each their own.
