I like girls in makeup.
Including showy eyeshadow.
I would say this mirrors my own experiences.
My minimal routine of Moisturizer, a dusting of powder (to even up tones), a dusting of shadow that is about two shades darker than my skin, brown mascara, and a sheer pink lip gloss are often mistaken as “No make-up”.
Me actually wearing no make-up is a cue for everyone to inquire about my health.
Me with a full on face of make-up usually means there are about to be photographs, and I’d like to look like I have lips and eyes in said photos.
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Nit wearing any makeup indicates a certain confidence or disregard for societal expectations, IMHO.
Yep. It takes some guts to be a proudly effeminate nit.
Ooops, can’t edit now. What a typo on my part.
I like people who have that kind of confidence, and I despise being enslaved by societal expectations.
I’m more comfortable with a woman who doesn’t do the makeup thing. It’s distancing. It’s a form of mask and a way to not be entirely present. EDIT: I mean it feels that way to me /EDIT
And aesthetically, pretty people look better scrubbed and cleaned up with their hair nicely brushed but without gilding the lily; not so pretty people on the other hand run the risk of looking overly concerned about their appearance and trying too hard and it’s better to look OK but not great than to look made up and still not great.
This thread reminds me of a past thread that I can’t find now! Someone posted a picture with a bunch of different body types for men, and asked which one people found most attractive. And all these people kept jumping in saying how they liked their men a little on the pudgy side, which I thought was so weird because come on, how many people in real life like their men on the pudgy side?
But soon it sunk in that a lot of women who gravitate toward this site also gravitate toward a particular sort of man, and that the opinions of the women on this board could be completely honest without being a representative sample of the average person.
To give an outlying piece of data, my husband is all tatted up, and he loves the look of harsh makeup on a woman. Look up Shirley Manson for an example of what he’s into. He absolutely loves when I wear blood-red lipstick or a dark, dramatic smoky eye. He’s even specifically told me that he doesn’t like the natural, no makeup look on me, he’s said I look too “washed out.”
Of course, he also looks at makeup as an art, rather than a way of masking imperfections. And he’s not chubby, so we pretty much don’t fit into the standard mindset of the Straight Dope at all.
It depends a lot on how much and what kind.
I absolutely cannot stand lipstick of any kind. When I was real little, I had an aunt who always wore the stuff and always wanted to leave kiss marks on my face. I guess it gave me a complex or something. I also don’t like the idea of kissing a face with any kind of make-up on it.
I think it’s a waste on most women under 40. Their skin at that age is usually quite pretty on its own. I also don’t think coating your face with a bunch of chemicals is as healthy as the cosmetic industry would have you believe.
My father hated makeup on my mother. Although she would put on lipstick when she went out for an evening. So I grew up accustomed to a woman without makeup and I don’t like it either. I especially didn’t like kissing a woman with lipstick. I suppose if you are wearing so little I am unaware of it, it might be okay. My sons don’t like woman wearing makeup either.
I recently saw a magazine cover with a picture of Emma Watson on. Now Emma Watson grew up to be a beautiful woman. It takes a lot to make her look ugly, but this magazine cover did just that with industrial strength makeup.
For me, I don’t care, but I don’t think women need to wear make up. My wife doesn’t own any; neither did my first wife. Of the women I’ve dated before that, only one wore makeup; I didn’t think she needed to, either.
Minimal or no makeup is my preference. And no foundation at all.
A lot depends on the woman, but I prefer minimal to no makeup for the most part.
When ever I see a woman on Survivor or some other show where the ladies are roughing it, there are usually a few of them that I find attractive. Almost without fail, when I see them on the season finale, dressed up and in makeup, I think they looked far better back on the island with no makeup at all.
Makeup should only be enough and used only to highlight the part of your face that is the most striking.
But makeup on some women makes a lot of difference. I have seen pictures of Zooey Deschanel without her usual eye makeup, and she looked like a totally different person – I almost didn’t recognise her. She still looked good, mind you, but she didn’t look like Zooey.