• @MsPenguinette
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    13011 months ago

    Most men have no idea what they actually like. I’d be willing to bet most wouldn’t be able to identify light mascara even if they saw it applied

    • @[email protected]
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      6611 months ago

      Agree. Men who go out of their way to evaluate women’s appearances and say they like women with no makeup generally mean they prefer it when women are level ten makeup astronauts who make full face look like “I just woke up this way!”

      That said, the full-set lakes that make it visibly hard for a person to blink look really uncomfortable, and that makes me vicariously uncomfortable.

        • @Seleni
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          1211 months ago

          There’s two kinds of putting on makeup: the kind where you’re going for drama, and the kind where you try to make it look as natural as possible, highlighting features to make them look better.

          Most often, when you see comments about ‘women should look like this!’ And ‘see, women without makeup look better!’ the pictures that go along with the comment are women with a very good version of the second type of makeup.

            • @Seleni
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              111 months ago

              Ah, but I’m given to understand it’s only men on the internet. If that’s the case, given the large number of people, then it’s by far the biggest sample size.

        • @[email protected]
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          011 months ago

          My, aren’t we salty.

          What I’m saying is, there is a certain type of man who goes around policing women’s appearances and beauty habits on the internet (ew, I wish they wouldn’t wear makeups… so gross!). This type also gets fussy when they have to witness a woman not having a stunningly flawless face (ew, she’s a 3, how dare she exist).

      • Flying SquidM
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        311 months ago

        My wife rarely wares makeup and rarely has. I prefer it when she doesn’t, which is good because so does she.

      • @[email protected]
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        say they like women with no makeup

        It generally means they don’t like women wearing so much make-up it is noticeable even to them.

        At least for me. I rather prefer them a little ugly than looking like a clown.

        • @candybrie
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          11 months ago

          It can take a lot of makeup to create a look where a bunch of guys think there’s no make-up.

    • @[email protected]
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      2011 months ago

      To say it differently, you don’t ask a fish how to go fishing. They would just say “be a delicious worm or bug” and have no concept of rods, reels, locations, or any of the skills involved in actually fishing.

    • @Epzillon
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      1511 months ago

      Very much this. I tried to further explain the reasoning but I realized that it’d just sounded way more incel’y than it needed to.

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      1311 months ago

      Yeah, this statement is simply wrong. Men unconsciously notice a lot of things, and they might deny noticing even obvious ones because any acknowledgement of fashion is considered effeminate by some men.

      I love the drag queen lashes that are so long they’ll take out the person next to you if you turn your head too fast.