It's the same thing. It's not actually good for you (removes a natural defense for your skin), it's deceitful and it's a financial burden (you have to buy razors and supplies).
Human beautification is a many thousands of year old tradition -- it's as much a part of being a human as expressing oneself through language.
facial hair can be a potential fire hazard, and is often considered to be too unhygienic for food workers. Both are reasons for an employer to request your continual shaving.
Do similar problems arise for cosmetics and the people that wear them? I don't wear cosmetics, but I don't believe that there are any overlapping laws which restrict their use such as the rules that food handlers must abide by.
Yes, some people are required to shave for their job, but most are not and still do. Some women are required to wear makeup for their jobs, but most aren't and still do.
Regardless, my initial arguments still apply to all the cases where one is not required by one's job.
It's pretty much ingrained in any culture, and it's not going away anytime soon. Makeup is here to stay, and definitely not ripe for 'destruction'.
I'd like to see your arguments on how putting on makeup is not like cutting your hair or shaving, or should we also "destroy" haircutting/shaving? I'm not talking about haircuts out of convenience, but the ones you do to look decent in front of your clients. Do you have long hair in a ponytail, convenient and haircut-free?
It's ironic how you call us "masses of duped souls in the general population" yet you're the one campaigning against a core tenet of expression as a unique human - the way we make ourselves look like the way we want to.