Hello, sorry to bother you but I have an emergency and as much as I feel ashamed to do this, I’d like to ask you for any help, if possible.
My city, Santiago, is currently under a strict confinement where to head out to buy groceries you need a special permit that grants you 2 hours per week to do so if you’re doing your groceries on Saturday or Sunday.
On the 14th I went to the market close to my home and there was a long queue outside the market so had to wait for a long time (max 50 persons allowed in at any time), so after I managed to pay for my groceries my 2 hours had long expired and police stopped me on my way back.
The police demanded to see my permit and upon seeing that it had been expired by an hour by then they just took my info and fined me. The amount of the fine will be decided on the 1st (apparently a lot of people are getting fined like this so I just had a tentative amount).
According to the site where I can see the amount, tentatively I’ll be paying 6 UC (Around 308934 CLP, more or less 427 USD or so), but it might be more or less once I get the final amount on April, and then I should pay it ASAP.
Since lately my finances have been extremely tight lately, I don’t have the money to cover this fine. Also being an immigrant I’m afraid that this might cause me serious issues for me, because when you’re an immigrant this kind of thing is always scary.
According to some friends it’s very rare to be stopped, much less fined, by the police at all, so I’m just hoping this didn’t happen because I obviously don’t look local at all (not that there’s any resource for defending myself if that’s the case).
If you could help me by chipping in to help me cover this I would very much appreciate it, any amount could help me.
Make-up can absolutely be artistic, but the difference between make-up and say, painting, is that artists aren’t expected to all paint the same standardised picture before leaving the house every day just to be treated with respect.
My point is, I can’t accept the blanket statement that makeup isn’t a form of art when stuff like this exists:
But at the same time, accepting make-up as an art form should not mean treating it as above criticism. The culture surrounding make-up is still toxic, and no amount of intricate and creative uses for cosmetics can justify the horrendous expectations society places on women (and ever younger girls) to spend hours of their lives making their faces look more ‘attractive’.
The fact that some people of various genders enjoy experimenting with make-up should not discourage us from working to destroy the pressure for women to cosmetically ‘correct’ their natural faces.
