Just something I've noticed: men who don't regularly see a woman actually putting makeup on, starting from a bare face, are completely clueless. They seem to define "makeup" as "red lipstick". Or in the case of excessively blacked-in eyebrows, as eyebrow pencil. So if a woman is not wearing bright red lipstick and/or heavy black eyebrows, then, in many male minds, she's not wearing makeup.
I knew a British guy who swore loudly and often, that he'd "never date a woman who wore makeup!" He thought makeup was terrible. He wanted someone as clean-faced and natural as his mother. Then one day he met and fell hard for a woman whom he described as the most naturally pretty woman he'd ever met. He brought her to a picnic for us to meet.
We almost died laughing.
She wore heavy pancake makeup base, that had caked on her chin and smudged onto her sweater collar. Rose blusher. Bright blue eyeshadow, with a thick line of black eyeliner "out to here", top and bottom, and honest-to-gosh haven't-seen-those-things-in-ages false eyelashes! With a ton of black mascara on them. She looked like a Vegas showgirl at the end of a bad night.
But she wasn't wearing lipstick.
"It smudges when I kiss."
There's a moral there somewhere....
~~Silk
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