Why do some religions say its a sin to wear jewelery and makeup?

Answer 1

You are supposed to let your actions make you look good, not artificial and material things. What we are on the inside matters to God, not our appearance. I don't believe it's a sin though, just not as necessary as some people think.

May God Bless you.

Answer 2

I agree with a lot of these answers. I think you can take a little from all of them.

There's always going to be those who overindulge in everything. Moderation is a hard concept for a culture that's always in the fast lane.

I don't think it is the makeup & jewelry that are the sin. It's the misuse of it. Vanity is one of "The 7 Deadly Sins". It's when our looks and the materials we aquire get to be more important than spiritual well being. If we choose to use make up and jewelry for seduction of maybe another woman's husband or to get ahead in a job or many other inappropriate reasons, that's when they are a sin. When we have continuous cosmetic surgeries and it becomes an addiction, that's when it's vain and that's when it becomes a sin.

God gives us choices, pathes to take in our life. It is up to us to choose the right one.

I am not an expert. I just have an opinion and this is it.

Answer 3

If they say it is a sin then they are taking it to extreme. Wearing jewelry and mack up for materialistic reasons keeps one on the bodily concept of life. The monks, priests, nuns, and renunciates renounce these things to say we have nothing to do with this material world. But their is a platform that is higher than renunciation. That is using everything in the Service of God. But one has to be very careful because many so called religionists use this idea to drive fancy cars and have extravagant clothes and jewelry and huge houses. That is not the idea.

Answer 4

Through a misinterrpretation of the verse below, some churches believe plainness is more Godly.
Wearing gold and plaiting hair were things that harlots did as a matter of routine.
But deleting jewelry is not the point.
Possessing a meek and quiet spirit, and not looking like a street walker is precisely the point.

Answer 5

Because some religions think that makeup and jewelery are elements that induce the seducing of men.

Answer 6

In my opinion, a subtle way it can say that we should not feel attach to anything not even a jewelry or a makeup. It may come a lot more consequences as a greed, a grieve to losing them, or even a crime to having them. We may feel suffer in case we need to wear them but we cannot. So no jewelry no make up no attchement no suffer.

Answer 7

These must be the same religions that blame the woman for bad things that men do in the name of lust. They brought it on themselves, did they? I view a religion that thinks this way as really not taking the effort to empower its men; it automatically looks at men as weak and subject to the manipulations of women. It allows a man to foist responsibility for his own weakness onto the woman and also perpetuate his "excuse system." If a man falls victim to lust, he ought to own up and not blame it on a woman's "makeup and jewelry."

Answer 8

There are a few passages in both the Old And New Testaments that say that women should be modest and concentrate on inner beauty instead of external beauty. Some Christian denominations take this too far.

I don't know about non-Christian religions.

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I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
~1 Timothy 2:9-10 (NIV)

I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful.
~1 Peter 3:3-5a (NIV)

Answer 9

The definition of religion should be mans idea of God.Jesus is the only way.I found this out by a personal real experience not by religion

Answer 10

Because they misinterpret the scripture that stresses the need for moderation in our dress and grooming. Jewelry and makeup aren't evil. But putting the focus on one's outer appearance should take a backseat to the focus put on our spirituality.