Does makeup add to a woman's physical appeal?

I've always called myself a tomboy with better hair and make up. haha. I've always enjoyed doing different things to my hair and experimenting with make up. I'm a hairstylist now and own my own salon so beauty pays my bills.

Growing up though I was the girl outside barefoot in shorts and a tshirt with the boys getting dirty but my hair was always done. It wasn't because I don't feel like I can go out without my hair or make up done because I can. It is just something I enjoy doing.

For years I admired women who wore cute outfits, heels and jewelry. I said for many years "I wish I could do that" but then I started. I bought some sundresses and just started wearing them. If there is something you see that you like but you don't think you can pull it off...I say buy it and start wearing it. You'll be comfortable in it in no time. You don't have to spend your life admiring other women for things. Be who you want to be, no matter what that is, its perfect.

 

I agree in the context of this discussion. But I personally always add that being who you want to be is important, as long as expressing that doesn't harm yourself or others, THEN it's perfect.

I grew up with that moral of self-confidence and expressing oneself, and I've seen a negative side to that, because when this was taught it was taught open-ended without contextual boarders, and unintentionally fed entitlement culture in the young adults of today.

 

If it's done right, and in moderation, then yes.

 

Some women look better with make up on and some look better with no make up.

Women with good skin and nice eyebrows need minimal makeup. I take care of my skin and I groom and fill in my eyebrows and I very rarely wear any other make up.on the rare occasion I go out I do think its fun to wear a bright lipstick or line my eyes dramatically.

I think where a lot of women go wrong is wearing a lot of foundation and powder. On bad skin it really cakes up on any pimples or other imperfections and just looks really obvious and bad. And good skin doesn't really need foundation.

 

I agree about eyebrows. Thank God for threading.

 

I haven't found a salon here that does it. I have a good natural arch so I can get by with just plucking the stray hairs but I really really want to try threading

I'm so glad thick eyebrows are back in style, thin eyebrows aren't that flattering and I love a good Brooke Shields-esque eyebrow. Lucy Hale from PLL has great eyebrows too.

 

In moderation it can. I only wear it if I am going somewhere special....most days just here with chores and animals, I don't.....

 

I wonder what happens to a guy's skin if they pamper it with collagen.

 

I'm sure the same thing that happens to a female's skin. I don't think it's that different.

 

Maybe a little bit, but too much is a big turn off for me.

 

I hate BB creams, they make my skin itchy.
Some of them tend to have high alcohol content, so watch out for that.
I had one (don't remember which brand exactly) that even smelled really badly of alcohol when I opened it.

 

This foundation is by far the best I've ever had, and it's not very pricey.

 

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I don't wear makeup most days. I realized really early on that when I felt compelled to wear makeup it was generally because I either felt insecure about the way I looked or it was just for fun. Like I'd wear makeup for Christmas because I wanted to look more "put together" and pretty for my boyfriend's family (insecure) or, rarely, for a night out just for the fun of applying it and feeling made up. It would end up being 3 or 4 times a year that I'd wear it.

I wonder sometimes if women wear it daily because they feel insecure.

These days I wear makeup several times a month for the same reasons. I feel insecure about my looks more often because I've gotten chubbier and blotchy-er and also, since I've become a mom, doing ANYTHING outside of my routine, like going to hang out with friends at their apartment for a few hours, feels like an "occasion" and it's fun to get done up for it.

So whether I feel insecure or I'm just having fun with it, I *DO* think I look better with it

 

Not necessarily. I see it often "misused" in my opinion. Many times I've seen an attractive woman and I'm thinking "I wish she would shitcan the makeup"... To me it can often "cheapen" the look of an otherwise natural beauty, and to those here that wear their makeup, I mean no offence by saying that. Do what makes you happy...

I'm not going to end up with that person anyways so it's not up to me to say anything about it or do anything one way or the other due to wearing or lack of wearing makeup.

 

Very, very few females have the skin to pull it off and even then simple makeup can take them to the next level.

 

I wear make up, but because I have pigmentation on parts of my face.

I don't put loads on and because of my skin tone, people can't really tell I'm wearing much. It took me years of practice and testing different brands to find a look that worked for me.

I can go out without make up, I don't heavily rely on it! But if I'm going somewhere nice or meeting a man I need my coverage. I notice the difference in men's reactions to me when I've got it on compared to when I haven't. I tend to get more male attention when I have it on. So I guess for me, make up increases my appeal, whereas for other girls it doesn't make such a difference cos they're naturally beautiful.

 

I think that amazing person who looks perfect naturally and without any makeup is a myth. Either a myth or incredibly young.

I still hold that most of those women who look "great" without their makeup are just good at putting it on in a non obvious "natural" looking way.

 

Hippies look naturally nice and I always assumed they loathe makeup, so they never wear it.
I'm not a hippie, so this is purely on assumption.

I don't think anyone looks ugly with or without makeup, but I will agree when most women wear makeup... they do look like an extra something in comparison to how they look without it. I don't know what it is. They just look more "put together", they stand out instead of looking plain, etc.