Many have praised Toffolo for her honesty, with one tweeting: “As someone who suffers with a skin condition, I sympathise with Toff.

“A young woman should feel confident and if make-up helps her to feel that way, then that should not be a problem”

Of course, studies have long shown that wearing make-up can help some women feel more positive about themselves. In June, researchers from Harvard Medical School in the US and Italy’s University of Chieti published a study into the “lipstick effect” on female undergraduate students.

They found that wearing make-up appeared to be connected to higher academic achievement in young women, with students who applied make-up performing better in a series of tests than those who didn’t.

Of course, it’s worth noting that unrealistic beauty expectations most likely contribute to the impact cosmetics can have upon our self-esteem: if a woman is pressured by society to look a certain way and feels that she doesn’t, it makes perfect sense that she would use all of the tools at her disposal to help her to ‘correct’ this.

Whatever her reasons, though, a woman should be allowed to choose whether or not she wants to wear make-up without fearing criticism from anyone. Simple as.

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Georgia Toffolo reminds us why we should never judge women for wearing make-up