Bag o' tricks

I never use to wear make up except on special occasions like weddings, prom, dance recitals, etc because I thought that I didn't need it. I still don't think that I need it but lately I've been wearing it almost every day. Why? No clue just have. So the other day I didn't put any on because I was just going to be lazy and hang around my house for the day. I looked in a mirror and it was weird how different I looked. I seemed really pale, my eyes seemed smaller etc. And don't get me wrong I don't wear a lot of make up usually just eye shadow, mascara, lip gloss, and rarely blush. It was just so weird how different I thought I looked. My friends and I use to call make up bags the bag o' tricks. Now my question is who do they trick? Do they trick everyone else because there's some girls who refuse to go anywhere with out make up on so no one knows what they look like with out it? Or does it trick us by showing us a different face so we don't even recognize ourselves? Magazines, TV, just the media in general show us girls how "important" make up is. There are whole magazines dedicated to help you "look better". Even in the olden days women would crush up rocks and use that for make up, or pinch their cheeks so they looked rosy. When did the thought process of "we have to change the way we look in order to be liked/look good/like ourselves" start?