As our month long blogging on lipstick comes to a close (no this won’t be the last time you hear us talk about lipstick,) the question “why do women wear lipstick?” is forefront. Makeup, specifically lipstick, is seen by some as uneccessary and put on simply to attract and hold the interest of men. While this is not true, well not entirely true, there must be a reason behind the lipstick and other makeup we put on. In fact, there is. We like it. It makes us feel pretty and fun, mysterious and sexy. Maybe the truth really is that as girls we loved messing around our mothers makeup drawers and begged her to put even just a small dab of her lipstick on us for the day or at least until we had to leave the house. Many of us have this experience with our daughters. From very young ages – even as early as 15 months – children are fascinated by our makeup. Wearing lipstick as adults channels us back to those simpler days when all that mattered was having the stuff on our lips no matter how well it was applied, if it matched perfectly with what we were wearing or what would the other girls would think of it.
We continually look for new products, colors and application techniques to improve our look. As unique as each of us are, lipstick can be just as unique for us. It lets us say what we want about ourselves – be it confidence, sexiness, security, or even that maybe that’s all we had time to do and it makes us feel more put-together. For all you women reading this who don’t wear lipstick, we lipstick wearers might understand your perspective as well-you’re just not into it. To which we say – good, more for us. Not really. Honestly, to each his own. Women should just do what makes them feel beautiful and not follow along because that’s what society tells us we should do.
Finally, I’d like to answer the question with a question. Why not wear lipstick?
Hello,
Apologies firstly for commenting without having read older posts on this topic. Anyways, in this here post you defend the wearing of lipstick because it makes the wearer (its not only women who wear lipstick, for a start) happy to do so, makes them feel sexy, happy, confident or whatever.
Yet this answers nothing. This is just the effect of wearing lipstick. When Newton ‘discovered’ gravity he couldn’t simply say ‘things fall, thus gravity’ but had to show how this determination followed; in other words he had to show why.
Why does wearing makeup have the effects you say it does? Doesn’t it seem at all odd that rubbing some chemical colours on your face is enough to make you happy? Why is it that it fails to make the majority of men happy? Or the girl who refuses to wear it?
I’d anticipate that its down to choice…some like it , some do not… but again there would need to be attention paid to the why.
As to the question ‘why not wear lipstick?’ this seems slightly facile. After all, why not scarification?
Your comments are interesting and appreciated. Around here we like to keep things light. This post is just one reflection of that and the opinion of the women of Glamour Connection and not meant to be a scientific analysis. Men and women view the world very differently. Generally, we write towards an audience of women who are interested in our topics and think it’s great if men want to read to possibly learn more about what makes us tick. And as was said: “to each their own.”
Good God! Wear lipstick ladies, it’ll make you better workers. How absurd.
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