The DailyMail seems to think it’s made a remarkable discovery. Apparently, we’re hearing for the first time ever that men don’t like women who wear ‘too much makeup’ and they prefer women to look as close to natural as possible. What the déja-vu, yo! I could’ve sworn I heard this at least a billion tired times already.
Millions of men think women wear too much make-up and prefer girls who adopt a more natural look.
Research revealed one in five men wish their partner would tone down the slap-on while one in ten said they liked women who wear no make-up whatsoever.…Gloopy mascara and panda eyes caused by leaving make-up on overnight were also hailed as a no-no by the nation’s men
Looks to me like Halle Berry has a lot more piled on, honestly.
Millions of men can kiss my ass.* Oh, wait, maybe you shouldn’t because I’m saving that spot for the only man in the world who is allowed to touch me there… and he finds me lovely no matter how much or how little makeup I wear.
Personally, I don’t give a flying fuck** what millions of men think when it comes to how I wear makeup. Millions of men also want women to walk around topless in public. Just the hot ones.
If I were wearing makeup for men, I’d have to stick with natural makeup all the time and it’d be boring. I like to do natural makeup on occasion but I also like the option of dressing it up and playing with different looks. Oh, and I also like to spend most days not wearing any makeup because that’s when my skin feels most relieved. I wear makeup to entertain myself and to impress other women. I’m a heterosexual woman but I tend to care more about what other women think about my makeup. The intention of wearing makeup and dressing up isn’t solely to impress men, btw, and I do hope men realize this. It’s part of how we groom ourselves to look presentable in society.
Well, we could get into a whole debate about this but the internet has decreased the average blog-reader’s attention span to that of a… O, look! ChocoPie!
i totally nabbed this photo from the Korea Times. Orion is the only true brand of ChocoPie. The Lotte ones can kiss my ass***.
*Oops. Jen is going to give me a spanking for my potty mouth… I CAN’T WAIT. BWAHAHA.
**Ooooops! Good thing I didn’t renew last year’s resolution to stop swearing. Then again, maybe I should, haha.
***lawl
Thus, I leave you with the question of the day. What is your main reason for wearing makeup?
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So people wouldn’t run away from me screaming.
I will join the millions of men who want Alienman to walk around topless so I can see her bewbs.
LOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
I was hoping the asterisk was for me. It was. <3
Women live to impress other women, it's like a fact of life. It has nothing to do with guys except that you maybe beat your significant other into submission so that maybe he thinks you are beautiful with no makeup and when you do wear makeup you become goddess-like (or "pretty doll princess" as hubs has taken to calling me as of late).
That's why I always maintain that makeup is truly for making yourself feel beautiful because that's what it should do.
I wear makeup whenever I feel like it! Men are full of it when it comes to makeup, they can’t remember the color of lipstick you wore on the first date. Yet, they complain about us. For this particular subject, I’d like to quote Rhett Butler on the men, “Frankly, I don’t give a damn!”
haha…you know deep down us women wear makeup for each other…i wear makeup just for you
j/k!
but honestly, i originally wore makeup to cover blemishes and to look more polished for work. now, i wear it for self-expression and the COLORS..the colors! the colors!
honestly, if a majority of men had it their way, we would be naked and in bed…makeupless…
how’s life in portland so far? hope you’re settling in well
My hub likes me without makeup and so I’ve gone makeup less for a few days and I can see improvement in my skin and I am starting to feel confident without it now because my skin is getting even again.
and yes, men say that they prefer their women without makeup but the next girl that they call smokin’ hot is a babe with a caked on face! Don’t you agree?
THANK YOU!
I get so enraged when I see YouTube videos plagued with comments by guys making statements about what they would rather the girl look. It’s like why does everything a woman does automatically get tied into hooking men? My boyfriend loves me with or without makeup and I too wear makeup for my own amusement. The men who take their time to tell girls on YouTube what they would rather they look like (as if in hopes to change them) are men who are not worth hooking in the first place.
I love you and your blog haha
lol yeah mu is definitely worn for other women. I can’t imagine wearing mu with the sole purpose of wanting my bf to say “wow, that is a wonderfully executed smokey eye you’ve got going there!”
FUCK NOW I WANT CHOCO PIES!! Thanks a lot Twinstar!! And what no swearing?! WTF?!
But even the “Natural” look requires lots of makeup! LOL! It’ s just that the colors aren’t as bright! LOL!!! Haha!! Call me a dork.. but I remember this old ep of SClub7 (OMG REMEMBER THEM?!) and the girl Rachel was going for modeling & deciding what kind of look she was gonna show up with. She said.. “I’d do the natural look, but that’d take HOURS to do!” LOL!
My main reason for not wearing makeup?! Hrm.. either I don’t plan on leaving the house at all that day or I’m just too lazy! LOL!
I wrote a post awhile ago about why I wear makeup. YEESSSS! It is infact NOT to impress guys, but to feel PRESENTABLE. And to impress hot girls. (: Plus makeup is not just… makeup. Creating looks and playing around with different products is like creating ART. On your face.
So, men can love it or leave it. I do agree, Halle Berry looks plastic-y. I remember seeing an ad in a magazine featuring her for some kind of foundation, and she looked horribly very noticeably cakey. How is that representing the product in a good way?!
And thanks for your comment ^^ I wish I had your fair skin!!! *is jealous*
Ohh and the overwhelming response to my question about the music player was to take off autoplay ^^ only a few people didn’t care or wanted music. So I do what I gotta do for my readers (:
Yeah, when the SA said that, it was OVER. She was trying to make a sale but I was just… whatever already.
I totally agree with you, I really don’t care what “most” men think cuz most men are such idiots. I was at work the other night and these group of middle aged men were talking about how they would rate these girls. They’d say “oh she could work on her body more” or “her face isn’t hot enough” pffft….HA you should be talking! They were not only old, but fat and balding! Sorry but I wouldn’t give a rat’s ass if they rated me a -1. It wouldn’t mean much coming from them.
Any who I’m kinda going off topic…sorry. To answer your question, I wear make up because I think I look much better with it on. We all have imperfections that we want to hide or maybe we like to play up some of our features. I go the whole nine yards with my make up with smokey eyes, bronzer,blush ect. because it makes such a huge difference. Some might think a smokey eye is too much for the day time, but whatever I think I look a thousand times better than with plain old mascara and lipgloss
I wear makeup because it makes me feel confident. I also like it because I can do whatever I want with it and have fun. I like accentuating my features. Those men who say they prefer natural to makeup probably don’t even know what natural looks like. In that picture, Halle Berry has makeup on but of course, most men don’t know anything about makeup so they can’t tell. Many of us do it for ourselves or for somebody special in our lives…what makes me roll my eyes is when strangers say we do it to generally attract men. I’m like: “Screw you. I don’t know you. I don’t do this for you.” That’s my feeling on that. ^_^♥
makeup iz phun. That’s why I wear it. I also wear it when I want to feel more polished or pictures are going to be taken
But when I’m too tired I don’t wear anything.
Woow this was a good post. I totally agree with you. I wear makeup because I want to look more human when I go out, and because it’s simply fun. But I don’t have a problem being without makeup either. I can leave for school totally au naturel if I happen to feel like it.
And the thing about pleasing men is just CRAP. I once had a boyfriend who didn’t like that girls wear makeup (and I wore it nevertheless, LOL). My current bf doesn’t dislike makeup but never comments nastily on my naked face either. Most of my guy friends are so nerdy that they think that it’s a bit strange if a girl actually wears makeup (most of my nerdy girl friends don’t paint their faces at all).
Ever since Denis went off to Georgia I’ve been rocking more makeup XD
He lightened up on his original “ew yuck makeup!” stance, but even then I tended to keep things really natural/neutral. These last couple of days I’ve been working on perfecting my smoky cat eye, and he’s not around to do anything about it
I’m still too lazy to put makeup on on weekends, though.
I remember reading some magazine once–it was either Cosmopolitan (ech) or Glamour–where they did a poll using three pictures of the same model wearing “light,” “medium,” and “heavy” makeup. No surprise, the men liked the model wearing the “heavy” makeup the most. Some of them couldn’t even tell that it was the same model. I think the key is that men profess to not like “heavy” makeup if it’s “obviously heavy” makeup (I think I’ve exceeded my quotation quota for the day); most of them don’t know how much work goes into any level of makeup anyway, so if they can figure out you’re wearing any makeup at all, then that’s too much to them. There are few women in the world who are so blessed that they can turn heads when they don’t wear any makeup at all. I’m not one of them. But I don’t wear makeup to turn heads.
I do think that women wear makeup for men in a different way than most people think–it’s not that we’re trying to attract them, but we are trying to be attractive. Unsurprisingly, attractive people tend to get things more easily than unattractive people. Although this goes for men as well as women, women are expected to be attractive in a much more demanding way than men are, and some amount of makeup is usually required in order for women to avoid unattractiveness. It’s far easier for an unattractive women to be dismissed as a serious contender for higher career placement than an unattractive man–hence, we shoot for attractiveness. Still, as women, we dance a very fine line between being “too girly” and “too manly” in workplace politics; makeup helps avoid the “too manly” (unattractive) pigeonhole, but too much makeup might hurt one’s reputation rather than help. So there’s kind of a bell curve of makeup that the majority of society (and men) judge women by–too little is unattractive; too much to the point of obviousness is just as unattractive.
So that’s what I think about wearing makeup, but mostly I personally wear makeup because it’s fun! Personally, I feel really satisfied after I put makeup on, much in the same way that I feel really satisfied after I put together a nice outfit, write, read a good book, draw a good picture, run in the rain, solve a puzzle, or finally figure out what it was that I had forgotten. It’s like something clicks into place in my head. My makeup and clothing tend to reflect the way I feel, but it’s not like I get bummed out if I’m not wearing something nice–I just couldn’t be bothered to put something nice on that day, that’s all. Either that or I’m back in my suits-only environment, which is, alas, not the best place for expression anyway.
I am loving all the responses to this topic, ladies. It’s definitely interesting to read everyone’s perspectives about this and I am so grateful and happy that you’ve taken the time to write such thoughtful comments in regards!! I should do more blog entries like this.
Just stumbled upon your site. You’re super funny! Well, I wear make up because it makes me feel more confident and prettier. I have a lot of acne scars and I’m so pro at covering it! = )
Thanks, bonnie! I have a lot of scarring, too, and I definitely feel like the scars are more noticeable than any other part of my face. Sometimes, I only want to cover the scars so people see ME and not my scars. I’m always happy to see new names commenting on GoldfishCake, so welcome and thank you for coming
Men are delusional. I don’t know why women persist in acting shocked when they read moronic news stories about men’s general preference for “non-obvious” makeup. It seems to me that it comes down to one simple observation: men don’t have the slightest clue whether you’ve put a particular product on your face unless you’ve done so heavily or without proper skill. They can jabber on about disliking women who wear makeup as much as they want, but we know the truth. The vast majority of purportedly “au naturel” women they prefer are, in fact, wearing makeup.
I’m with you: this has been overhyped and overreported to the point of absurdity. Men are idiots where cosmetics and fashion are concerned. Women need to stop dwelling on their inconsequential opinions and have some damn fun.