Yikes. Then prepare never to see me in public again. 
jarbaby
I use the word “chick” too. Although, not when talking about people I know. More like “there was this blond chick on e.r. tonight…” I don’t really understand why people get upset by words like “chick” or “fox” or even “old bat” when used about women, since half of the women I know who object to those terms think nothing of calling men “pigs,” “dogs,” “jack asses” and so on. It has to be one way or the other, object to all or none, or else be a hypocrit. So…those of you who object never call men animalistic names, right?
But this older (chronologically inclined) chick looks better with than without.
When I was younger, I had great skin. Never wore makeup, except for a little mascara. It’s difficult giving the man-of-the-moment smoky bedroom eyes with practically non-existent pale blonde eyelashes. And not one of my men-of -the-moment didn’t enjoy a little smoky bedroom eye at least once in awhile.
Sometime around the age of 33 my skin started taking on a look that I used to equate with dirty (read: not clean) when I was in my 20’s. Dull. Uneven skin tones, like I’d been mowing a dusty three acre plot with a push mower in 100º heat for several hours. It took awhile, but I finally got tired of catching a glimpse of myself in a mirror and thinking “My God, I need to wash my face!!!” even though I’d gotten out of the shower less than an hour before. Once I found the right stuff for me I don’t walk around wondering if my face looks dirty anymore.
I don’t know if DH likes me better with it than without it, and I don’t care. I’ve never asked him.
I can hardly believe, and am slightly ashamed of, the fact that, after lurking here for several days, the topic that I felt worthy of my first post involved something as asnine as makeup.
Deej,
I feel so privileged that you would pick one of my thread to respond first to. And btw Welcome to Straight Dope!
I think it just depends on how you’re used to seeing someone. My mother looks ATROCIOUS without makeup if she’s going out, but she’d been caking it on since way before I was born and that’s just what I’ve come to expect.
As for me, I only wear a little lipstick and powder when I need to look a bit more professional than normal, like if I have a job interview or need to give a presentation in class. Ocasionally I’ll vamp it up a little more when I’m going clubbing or partying, but that’s the only other time.
I just think I have a pretty enough face to look great * au naturel * , and to me, my good feelings about myself are more important than what any man could say about my appearance.
I think that I look better with a bit of makeup on. But I am absolutely not dependent on it - usually, I don’t even wear any. For formal dances at school, I wear insane amounts of eye makeup and lipstick. I like it. I, like many of the women who have posted in this thread, do it for me. I feel a bit more confident when I know that I look good, so, if I’m feeling a bit down, I might put a little makeup on.
In rereading this, I am realizing that I am having a very difficult time forming decent sentences today. Sorry, all. I just am a little stupid today.
(Even that above bit sounds dumb! What’s the matter with me? I shudder to think that maybe going back to school will be a good thing.)
Oh, barf. Please tell me I’m not the only one who retched a this.
I’m continually amazed that there are women in the world who will marry men like you, Bill.
Testify, sister!
The finest piece of advice I ever got was simply, “be who you are”.
Nothing more, nothing less. And damn the people who’d look down on you for it.
In my experience, the whole “dude, chick, gnarly” thing is generally limited to high school and juco.
I am not old, I just want to speak in a way that people don’t think I am a teenaged stoner wastoid with a limited mental capacity. I mean, they still might, but it won’t be from my immature slang choices!
Well excuse me!!! What’s wrong with a man that would like a flat stomach on his woman. I mean I would like to have a washboard stomach myself. And I will eventually get it. It’s hard though. And btw the wink usually means for fun or just kidding around. I mean I wouldn’t shell out $8,000 anyway. 
(you remember what the wink means now don’t you podkayne)
And if people choose not to like because I use terms like chick and dude, I could care less if they like me or not. Because they are probably intellectual stuffy snobbs that think their stuff don’t stink when if fact theirs usually stinks the worse.
You know what a rolling eyes mean, don’t you, Bill? :rolleyes:
A winky smilie does not magically transform a disgusting comment into a light-hearted joke.
Suggesting that a woman should have surgery to make herself more attractive to you, even in jest, is absolutely revolting.
I ABSOLUTELY concur with your ASSessment of Wildest Bill’s behavior. In fact, IMHO, I’ll go so far as to say that I find his mode of expression, referring to women as “chicks” and then saying that people who disagree with his objectification of women as cute, fluffy, baby animals who need to conform to artificial standards of beauty to be attractive to him, are “snooty” is revolting.
I use the term, chick, myself. Who cares?
Bill, I get where you’re coming from, but honestly, to some of us women, who are under constant scrutiny from society, the media, etc etc, to look perfect, youthful and sexy, it’s annoying and in poor taste. I’ll refrain from aguing too much, simply because this isn’t the Pit, and I think this is a rather interesting conversation.
Now then-plastic surgery-ugh! I don’t mean like, to correct scars or birth defects or anything like that. But tummy tucks, liposuction, implants, nose jobs, etc etc…are all very icky sounding to me.
I have a belly. So what? I LIKE my belly. I like my boobs, my hips and my butt. Personally, Bill, I have to say, you and your wife seem very shallow people.
Hmmm – I’m contemplating a new sig. Whaddaya think?
Jess – Intellectual Stuffy Snobb That Thinks Her Stuff Don’t Stink
Podkane,
Get a life it’s humor. Like I said it was a joke if you don’t find it funny that is your perogative. Once again, I wasn’t serious about having my wife get a tummy tuck.
Guin,
Man, I don’t know what to say you think me and my wife are shallow? That is a bummer you feel that way. Sure we care about our appearance but we don’t live for that. I guess I came off to strong for you to feel that way about me and her.
I don’t wear makeup most days, but I wear it for client meetings, and I wear lots of it for dance competitions. My husband likes me both ways, but has a preference for no makeup because I’m safer to kiss that way.
I thought the crack about the tummy tuck was funny, and I’m not offended by the term “chick” in this context. I’m not wild about the “any guy is a liar” stuff, though.
I think that WB gets piled on more than he deserves. I’ve been a piler-on in the past, but I think he’s much improved from his early days on the SDMB (do a search for some of the old stuff if you don’t believe me).
I don’t wear makeup either!! Well, actually I occasionly wear a bit of lipstick just for something different. I did have it applied by other people once or twice in my life but I hated the feel of cosmetics on my skin. It makes it feel dry and hot and I feel like I’m imprisoned beneath some kind of suffocating film and my skin can’t breathe and I was just counting the minutes 'til I could clean that gunk off of me! Also I couldn’t brush my face you know, I just couldn’t unselfconciously touch my own face because all of the fragile gunk would come off on my hands if I did.
Wow being the kind of girl that Wildest Bill approves of is uncomfortable!
Oh and I never learned to apply makeup either. I can do lipstick just about 
but give me an eyeliner pencil and I just don’t know what to do with it!
Only thing I know how to do with a pencil is draw Sailor Moon fanart. And that’s the way I like it!
Guess I would never graduate from the Wildest Bill School for Perfect Femininity. Awwww. I’m going to spend the rest of my life regretting that. (sarcasm dial on 11)
Well, the fact that you risk your life with dangerous drugs just to look good, for starters…
Bill, is this your impersonation of a troll?
FYI, I am a blonde, and have actually (gasp) had dark roots showing!
Whats next, skinny women look cruddy with glasses?
Your opinion isn’t humble enough.
Let’s put it this way:
You think that NATO could be the nucleus of a one-world government which will pave the way for the coming of the Antichrist.
You want to use steroids and weight-loss pills to get six-pack abs.
Your wife is considering getting breast implants.
Of the above, you found only two to be sufficiently important that you started GQ threads asking for more information.
-Ben