I
have long held plastic surgery procedures that irrevocably alter a person’s
visage or other bodily features for no other reason than the person’s disdain
for their natural appearance to be fundamentally immoral (in contradistinction
to reconstructive surgeries that restore the creative work of God to its
original beauty, in a manner akin to the restoration of an Old Master painting
to its original beauty after it had been damaged by fire or flood). Makeup
practices are non-permanent and therefore far less drastic than plastic surgery,
but the same corrupt notion is at play—the hubristic presumption to ‘correct’
God’s masterpiece, as if a 5th grader assumed the artistic
competence to pass corrective judgement upon a masterwork of Michelangelo.
Makeup as such cannot be deemed immoral, anymore than wearing beautiful clothing or cutting one’s hair in an accentuating style can be. Vestis virum reddit—“Clothes make the man”. Makeup is like a frame on an Old Master painting; no one goes to an art museum to view the frame, but without the accentuation of the golden wood surrounding the art itself, the piece would appear less luminous. Makeup qua accentuation of Divine Beauty inherent in the created physical person is indeed a morally commendable, though optional, act in adornment of the Temple of the Holy Spirit. But when makeup becomes a true ‘remaking’—a deconstructive practice whose specific goal is the desecrative correction of Divine Creation—it takes on the character of an impermanent pseudocosmetic unweaving of the Cosmos. Cosmetology for its own sake partakes of Satan’s repugnance for the created order and echoes the Satanic ‘Non serviam’.
Makeup as such cannot be deemed immoral, anymore than wearing beautiful clothing or cutting one’s hair in an accentuating style can be. Vestis virum reddit—“Clothes make the man”. Makeup is like a frame on an Old Master painting; no one goes to an art museum to view the frame, but without the accentuation of the golden wood surrounding the art itself, the piece would appear less luminous. Makeup qua accentuation of Divine Beauty inherent in the created physical person is indeed a morally commendable, though optional, act in adornment of the Temple of the Holy Spirit. But when makeup becomes a true ‘remaking’—a deconstructive practice whose specific goal is the desecrative correction of Divine Creation—it takes on the character of an impermanent pseudocosmetic unweaving of the Cosmos. Cosmetology for its own sake partakes of Satan’s repugnance for the created order and echoes the Satanic ‘Non serviam’.
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