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Make up at work | Why are some bosses insistent on staff wearing make up?

Why are some bosses insistent on staff wearing make up?

Are you the kind of person who likes to wear make up to work? It might be you're the kind of person who can't imagine going on a zoom call, or attending a meeting, without make up on.

Or at the other end of the scale, you might be the kind of person who doesn't even own any make up and doesn't even consider wearing it to work in any capacity.

In the middle ground there are those who, like me, wear make up some days, and not others. Who wear make up to an event, or on a whim. Women who wear a differing level of make up - perhaps pencilling in their eyebrows one day, wearing foundation and eyeshadow the next, lipstick if you're off to a conference.

The times I choose to wear make up - and the kind of make up I wear - depends hugely on a number of factors. It might be that I am going to a work event, or a conference - then I will choose to wear some make up. It might be I've found more time in the morning thanks to not pressing snooze and I use that time to dabble in some make up.

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