The 5 Things That Make A Woman More Beautiful Than Her Makeup Does

Women have it rough. Between all the pluck­ing, primp­ing, straight­en­ing and exfo­li­at­ing, we’re often so pre­oc­cu­pied with get­ting our look just rightfor the Insta­gram pho­tos that will be inevitably uploaded, we for­get the first rule our moth­ers ever taught us: It’s the inner beau­ty that counts.

But there are a few women out there who’ve tak­en those words to heart, and don’t feel the need to wear make­up — in the work­place, out to din­ner or (heav­en for­bid) at the gym.

These women real­ly get it right. Because they’ve real­ized that it’s not their curled lash­es or Cara Dele­vi­gne-esque eye­brows that make them pret­ty. There’s so much more to them and what they want to por­tray to the out­side world than their Kar­dashi­an-approved con­tour­ing abil­i­ties.

Often­times, the women who show so much right upfront are the ones with noth­ing good going on under­neath. Instead, the women who don’t wear make­up are per­fect exam­ples as to why it’s not your face that makes you beau­ti­ful.

When we strip away the cat-eye eye­lin­er and caked-on foun­da­tion, what is there that makes a woman’s inner beau­ty show through?

It’s what she does in the every­day moments and how she car­ries her­self in dif­fi­cult sit­u­a­tions that are the real mea­sures of a woman’s abil­i­ty to shine, inside and out.

The five things list­ed below cer­tain­ly make a woman beau­ti­ful, and they can’t be pur­chased at your local Sepho­ra.

Pas­sion­ate peo­ple are the hap­pi­est peo­ple, because they’ve fig­ured out what dri­ves them in life, and they care enough to pur­sue those goals.

When a woman is too pre­oc­cu­pied with sav­ing the rain­for­est or fight­ing for min­i­mum wage reform or being a boss in the cor­po­rate world, she doesn’t have time to fret about what goes onto her face.

But it isn’t the day-to-day work that makes her blos­som — hav­ing a sense of pur­pose and being strong enough to pur­sue it makes this woman a spe­cial type of atten­tion-grab­bing beau­ti­ful, because you can’t help but be grav­i­tat­ed to her pres­ence when­ev­er she walks into a room.

Beau­ty might be in the eye of the behold­er, and some­one who cares more about oth­ers than they do them­selves is tru­ly a pret­ty per­son.

It’s not easy to put oth­ers over your­self, to be able to empathize with indi­vid­u­als you’ve nev­er per­son­al­ly encoun­tered.

But the sign of a tru­ly beau­ti­ful per­son is that you can look past oth­er peo­ple’s façades, and relate to them on a deep­er lev­el. With the abil­i­ty to empathize, a woman does­n’t have to be made up to make a real and mean­ing­ful con­nec­tion.

It almost does­n’t even mat­ter what she looks like — she exudes an atti­tude that lets oth­ers know she under­stands them.

When a woman can hold her own in a con­ver­sa­tion or debate, or can come up with cre­ative solu­tions to her company’s busi­ness prob­lems, she doesn’t need to rely on the super­fi­cial to make her feel beau­ti­ful or accom­plished.

Her words cre­ate a bet­ter impres­sion than the most flaw­less look could ever achieve. This woman is beau­ti­ful because she’s ren­dered you in a state of awe with exact­ly the right asset.

Her Fun-Loving Spirit

If a woman won’t go skin­ny dip­ping because she’s afraid of ruin­ing her care­ful­ly-craft­ed bed­room eye look, then she’s sim­ply anoth­er exam­ple of some­one with mixed up pri­or­i­ties

But the woman who doesn’t wear make­up is fear­less and unafraid to embrace much of what comes her way.

Jump­ing at every oppor­tu­ni­ty and chal­lenge is only made dif­fi­cult if you con­stant­ly have to be made up. A beau­ti­ful woman is freed from these con­stric­tions, and free to let her fun side take over at every whim.