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Coming from a family who are well versed in makeup and its intricacies some women actually don’t know how to use makeup, in fact the idea of many Asian women is try to lighten their skin tone by a few degrees and they consider that "beauty". Versus most Asian women have superb natural skin tone and try to adjust it is a travesty. And then they pileup on huge heavy Jewellary on top of it while Jewellery needs to be artistic, sophisticated and match the time of the day, skin tone, lighting conditions and occasion.

Having the most gold isn't the idea.

Same with dressing.

The idea of makeup application, Jewellary, dress coordination and how to carry themselves hasn’t touched many Muslim women, unfortunately.

Anyways...

Well people are very different in the way they see things. My family was never into all these make up things and I am not even interested in learning these skills. Anyway what I want to add is that I have seen women looking very pleasing and a strange beauty reflecting from them without all these make ups maashaaAllah but merely because of their character like patience, forbearance, peaceful in nature, humble talks and religiousness irrespective of their age or color. Perhaps its the inner beauty. I see all these make up things look too artificial on women and I am not quite impressed with that. I do not know what impact it leaves on men though. One thing for sure is more the women come along with modesty, she looks more beautiful for how truthful are the words of the Prophet SAW, "And modesty is never part of anything, except that it beautifies it." So a woman who covers her face out of modesty looks more beautiful than the one who leaves the face open with all the make up.

I heard in a bayan of sheikh Maulana Abdus Sattar (DB) to the effect that aforetime the bride wakes up for tahajjud prior to the wedding day to beautify her face with the special noor and nowadays even the women from noble families go to beauty parlours. I am not trying to make a point if going to beauty parlours are allowed or not but for sure it was looked down before and even today some families keep away from that. All these make up things have been promoted too much and unfortunately many muslim women have fallen for it. I really wish we women pay more attention to our akhlaaq and deen for the beauty it brings can never be matched with anything artificial.
Khair I will leave this thread with a beautiful duaa taught by our Prophet SAW, "O Allah! assist us with knowledge, embellish us with forbearance, dignify us with piety and beautify us with peace." Ameen