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What about using make up?
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Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions.
It is permissible for a woman to make up herself provided that she exposes her make-up only before her husband or her unmarriageable relatives. It is prohibited for a woman to go out with makeup except when she is in a complete Hijab (completely covered up). If she is not covering her face then going out with make up is absolutely prohibited. Allah Says (Interpretation of meaning): {And not to show off their adornment except only that which is apparent (like palms of hands or one eye or both eyes for necessity to see the way, or outer dress like veil, gloves, head-cover, apron, etc.), and to draw their veils all over Juyubihinna (i.e. their bodies, faces, necks and bosoms, etc.) and not to reveal their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husband's sons, their brothers or their brother's sons, or their sister's sons, or their (Muslim) women (i.e. their sisters in Islâm), or the (female) slaves whom their right hands possess, or old male servants who lack vigour, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex.}[24:31]. Allah knows best.
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