# Women Who Wear No Makeup **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 7, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109 "2003-01-07T05:31:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109/101 "2003-01-11T21:12:09Z")
If you notice I made my last post at 2:30 A.M. and went to sleep thinking I may have made a mistake and was going to catch hell, today. **Green Bean** ’s response was so unlike what I expected that I want to make one last statement and then forever refrain from posting here again. [ul] **I hope that Green Bean lands the job of her dreams whether or not she is wearing make-up** [/ul] ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109/102 "2003-01-12T07:38:09Z")
A great perk of living in the Pacific Northwest is that a much smaller proportion of women wear makeup regularly. Maybe it’s just to rainy. Whatever the reason, it’s great. I think makeup is bizarre and that people look catroonish when wearing it. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109/103 "2003-01-12T07:39:30Z")
cartoonish ---
**Author:** ![agentfroot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@agentfroot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/agentfroot)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109/104 "2003-01-13T00:29:38Z")
I don’t wear makeup, and I don’t ever intend to (except on Halloween, of course). Nobody seems to care except my family (they wish I was a more “normal” 19-year-old). Whenever I do wear makeup, it takes me so long to put it on and take it off that I wonder how people who wear it every day put up with it. I’m saving myself time, money, and energy, and frankly I don’t care what people think. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109/105 "2003-01-13T01:42:09Z")
I’ve only read the OP, because that’s all I wish to respond to. My wife doesn’t wear makeup at all, except on very special occasions, such as a wedding or something. But no makeup for everyday. She is a mother and a schoolteacher. She has little enough time in the mornings to stop and put makeup on, and she may have children in her class with allergies or sensitivities to makeup and/or perfume (which she also doesn’t wear). I don’t mind if a woman doesn’t wear makeup. I also don’t mind if she **does** wear makeup, if it’s skillfully applied. The only problem I have with a woman in makeup is if it looks as if it’s been applied with a bricklayer’s trowel, or if it creates an unnatural look, rather than highlighting the natural look. ---
**Author:** ![Igloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Igloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Igloo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109/106 "2003-01-13T02:51:02Z")
I think I’m in the minority here as well. I wear makeup every day. Not a ton, but some. I have a friend who looks positively weird when she wears make-up; me, I feel as though I am incomplete without at least lipstick and blush. As far as the people saying they don’t wear it – geesum crow, more power to you. I would _love_ to feel complete (or even comfortable) without it. If I were a guy, the most beautiful woman to me would be someone who didn’t feel the need to bother with make-up. (I realize that gets into some self-confidence issues). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-who-wear-no-makeup/147109.md?page=5)