Ugly Things People Do/Wear To Look Attractive

VEGANGELICA · 09-21-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

I'm not into the whole makeup on guys things. Hell, I think most women wear too much of it. I wouldn't be opposed to human beings actually walking around in public with their actual faces on display...

But I think that's too much to ask.
What with how fake the world and all its people really are.

You, my friend, appear to be having a misanthropic moment. *I'm* not fake, if that helps you feel any better. I think many people don't intend to be fake, but they may be very insecure (or vain...or both) and out of that erupts make-up.

I agree make-up is odd...covering up the real person, as if people aren't attractive as they are. Has someone shown a picture yet of a woman wearing foundation so heavily that it stops abruptly on her neck causing an obvious distinction between the "make-up" zone and real skin? I see that occasionally and think, "How sad." The make-up really *is* like a mask.

I don't understand the rationale behind lipstick. I mean, it's supposed to make you look sexy and kissable and all, but it wouldn't taste good to actually *kiss* someone with lipstick on because that stuff tastes horrible. So anyone who wears lipstick seems to be saying, "Yeah, I'm hot and sexy. Come on and let's get it ON!" ... but then the lipstick is preventing the very thing the lipstick advertises. To amuse myself I like to imagine people whom I see wearing bright red lipstick kissing someone passionately with the result being that they both end up with splotches of lipstick smeared all over their faces. Ooo...so glamorous...NOT! What's the point of having a face covered with make-up so you can't kiss or else you'll muss up the make-up, and you can't cry or else your mascara will run?

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I don't think anyone has mentioned nylons yet. Occasionally, very occasionally, they can look good but by and large they look horrible to me. They just make women's legs look weird.

Nylons are an interesting cultural phenomenon left over, I think, from when women in the 1920s were starting to wear short skirts and yet didn't want to have naked legs (SCANdalous!!), so the idea of "nylons" (and shaving legs) developed. What use do nylons have? They don't really keep you warm. I suppose they wick sweat away from shoewear. I've heard claims that they can help reduce symptoms of vericose veins. Meh...I'm not convinced. I think it may be a big conspiracy concocted by nylon companies...but I'd have to investigate to see if my hypothesis is correct.

I like the fact that during WWII women just painted a stripe up their legs in the back to make it look kind of like they were wearing nylons, since nylon was being used for parachuttes. Chuckle. The funny things people do in the name of beauty!