Is There Any Truth To the Myth, If I Don’t Wash my Make-up Off At Night, I Will Age Seven Days Overnight? Howard Steinman: There is no truth to that, you don’t necessarily need to remove your makeup before you go to bed. There is so myth around the beauty industry, all so that might happen is your skin might be saggy, irritated the next day or if you are acne prone you may that of slight increase of acne but it’s going to be happen no effects on your skin and certainly is going to increase your aging.