Beauty is only skin deep. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You are what you eat. We've all heard these sayings before. But you may not have heard this one: You are what your skin eats. What?!?! Over the period of one year, over four pounds of cosmetics can be absorbed through the skin of someone who wears makeup every day. Your skin is literally eating (or absorbing) your makeup and becoming part of you! And, with that, one could almost argue that going makeup-free would be a sure-bet weight loss plan. But that's not what this is about.