Could Your Makeup Be Ruining Your Love Life?

There's nothing wrong with a little makeup to enhance your features and minimize the appearance of minor imperfections. Without realizing it, however, you can easily enter the "Makeup Overload Zone," which can prove disastrous for your love life.

How can you tell if your makeup is ruining your love life? The following are a few signs that you should definitely watch for.

1. Your mate complains that his dry cleaning bill has skyrocketed because of you.

There was a time when he loved giving you those teddy bear hugs and letting you rest your head on his chest while you watched your favorite movie together. If he no longer wants to do those things and states, "I don't want to get makeup on my shirt; my dry cleaning bill has been much higher since I've been dating you," your makeup is probably ruining your love life!

2. Your beau is embarrassed by your botched makeup job.

Perhaps you were running late for your beau's office dinner party and did a rush job of putting on your makeup while en route. He couldn't wait to show you off to everyone - that is, until you made a grand entrance with lipstick on your teeth and eyeliner running halfway down your face. If your relationship had not yet gotten serious before this important night, beware; there's a chance it never will! A botched makeup job can certainly ruin your love life -unless this man has already fallen head-over-heels in love with you or has an excellent sense of humor ( in which case, you had better hold onto him!).

3. Your man doesn't recognize you without your makeup.

Most men want to believe that what they see when they meet an attractive woman is what they will actually get when they start dating her - not merely an illusion. If you look like a supermodel after a 45-minute makeup job but transform into a hot mess when the penciled in eyebrows, artificial eyelashes, heavy foundation, lipstick and blush come off, you might be in for a series of lonely nights! When the "real you" is nothing like the made-up you, this is likely to ruin your love life.

4. Your date grows tired of waiting for you to fix yourself up before he takes you out.

Although you may be a stunning beauty once you finish making yourself up, your date may be growing weary from always waiting on you to get ready for a night on the town. If he seems overly fidgety or is becoming increasingly irritable because you're taking too long to doll yourself up, your makeup may very well be ruining your love life!

5. Your lover feels as though he's lying beside a mummy each night as you sleep strategically on your back to keep your makeup intact.

If you reach the point where your dates end at sunrise instead of sunset, the last thing you want is for your makeup to get in the way of romance! In addition to the fact that sleeping in your makeup can be bad for your skin and your pillowcase, you will practically have to lie still on your back like a mummy in order to keep everything intact! This will quickly zap the spice out of your love life - not to mention make your man wonder what it is you are trying to hide.

While a modest amount of makeup can compliment any woman, the overuse of cosmetics can become quite addictive for the woman who does not feel beautiful in her own skin. It may be difficult to unveil yourself to a new love interest if you have major blemishes that you are uncomfortable with or other issues that cause you to feel insecure about your appearance. However, if you cannot feel free to be yourself around the man who has captured your heart, he will never be able to know and love you for whom you truly are. Also, it will be hard to ever feel at ease with a man if you think he is only attracted to you because you're all glammed up. You also run the risk of forming a superficial and unhealthy relationship with a shallow man who is only caught up in looks.

You deserve to be with someone who can see past the surface and appreciate your inner beauty. But before that can happen, you must recognize the beauty within yourself and stop hiding behind cosmetics. When it comes to makeup, less is definitely more and you should work toward feeling as confident when you take if off as you do after you put it on.