'When reporting their own preferences for makeup, men found faces more attractive when they were wearing less makeup, up to 40% less than the actual amount worn. Additionally, women in the study shared very similar ideas, indicating that other women look more attractive with less makeup.'
Honestly, I prefer minimal makeup on women, myself. I'm not big into the artificial look. If it's something they want to do, then more power to them, but don't do it my behalf. :-)
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Heck, I could have told them that.
Interesting. I hope it’s somewhere where I can read it after it’s published. I stopped wearing red lipstick when I was about 20, because a man (with whom I had no romantic involvement) told me it made me look odd and old. I didn’t run right away and remove it, mind you, but his remark made me take a closer look in the mirror next time I started to put the lipstick on. I decided he was right. When I see some of the make up ads on TV, I often wish that young women would listen to the men (or women) in their life and ask their honest opinion — and not get upset when they get that opinion.
@Ellie – I prefer Margie wearing minimal or no makeup, but I also recognize there are formal occasions when makeup is as expected an artifice as wearing formal clothing of some sort. I usually look forward to her taking it off (on both counts).
Hmmm… One of Dave’s posts where I may actually have an advantage, because the whole campaign is a British thing on Facebook.
The odd thing is that I have seen a number of the ladies doing ‘NoMakeUp’ without make-up, and the worst thing about the whole campaign is they are selfies.
What I am about to say I can say because the lady in question will not read this blog.
Frankly one woman her selfie wasn’t flattering. The problem is I can’t tell her this. What is causing this isn’t the fact it is a ‘no make up’ (I have seen her no make up), but the fact it was a selfie.
It isn’t about the pixels (no matter what the ads say). Its about the lens. Phone cameras have a very small focal length and lens diameter. Thus at arm’s length the focus is completely wrong.
The problem is how do I tell the first person to break my heart it isn’t a good picture?
Note to self. Don’t comment online after 3 pints and 2 whiskies…
@LH – If you’d like, I’ll delete the comment.
Selfies are, fact, a challenge for distortion. I’ve noticed it with mine. Not that my looks have all that much to lose, mind you.