Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!jamcmullan From: jamcmullan@wateng.UUCP (Judy McMullan) Newsgroups: net.social,net.singles Subject: Re: makeup Message-ID: <1315@wateng.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 14:17:48 EDT Article-I.D.: wateng.1315 Posted: Mon Aug 13 14:17:48 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Aug-84 01:17:11 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 47 >In my opinion, women wear makeup because they aren't >really sure of themselves -- they *think* their best features are their >looks and they want to enhance them as much as possible to "make up" for >their personality (hence the name). Then, what might happen is since the >woman gets such good results with just makeup and some nice clothes, she >sees no need to further develop her personality and it stagnates. That >might be why you find it a "turn-off". Alright ladies, if I'm wrong (and >it wouldn't be the first time), why *do* you wear makeup? Just to *look* >nice? I wear makeup, occasionally. However, if I thought my best feature was my looks, I would be in big trouble! (Anyway, I don't see why my personality would stagnate if my best feature was my looks -- doesn't follow at all. Think about that statement if one said that a person's best feature was her ability to listen. NEITHER of them would be a reason to stop growing and changing). I wear makeup on the same occasions when I get my best dress out and get all dressed up for some special occasion. Makeup, to me, is just part of getting 'duded' up and I jab a little on here and there. I was at a talk last year, for teenage girls, given by a woman who runs a modelling school. Her rationale for wearing makeup and dressing carefully (i.e. make sure you are wearing well-fitting clothes that suit your body and colouring and anticipated activities) and standing tall instead of stooping, etc. were that you would gain confidence from knowing you look your best. She in NO WAY implied that careful attention to one's appearance should be all the girls should work on. In a certain sense, she had the same attitude that I have -- which is almost totally a product of advertising -- that makeup is part of careful dressing and attention to the way one looks. She just thought it was more important than I do. These ads ignore the fact (that someone else brought up) that makeup is messy, it gets on your clothes if you are not careful, smears if you rub your eye or lean your cheek in your hand, etc. I used to wear makeup every day -- when I was in high school -- but when I got to university I was too busy for something that was so unimportant. Also, I discovered sex. Makeup and sex DO NOT mix well. I prefer to be clean-faced if I'm anticipating burying my face in that special little spot at the side of the neck between the...... Sorry! I got carried away. You get the idea, I'm sure. I don't buy the ad image that makeup makes one 'sexy'. I am much more likely to wear makeup when I see my mother -- who wants me to dress up more and look nice -- than my lover -- who doesn't notice these things at all. --from the sssstickkky keyboard of JAM ...!{ihnp4|clyde|decvax}!watmath!wateng!jamcmullan