The ‘immorality’ associated with the
representation of working class beauty cultures as excessive and overly sexual, or
insufficient and lacking, is countered by the framing of natural beauty as morally
right, decent and respectable.

“Keeping it Real": Young Working Class Femininities and Celebrity Culture By Kelly Buckley

So I would argue that refusing to wear makeup AND wearing a fuck ton of makeup both constitute minor acts of rebellion against the bourgeois 

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