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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Makeup is fun. That's all.[/quote]

Except that it isn't all, because women who choose not to wear makeup are penalized for that choice by society. [/quote]
I don't wear makeup. Can you please tell me how society penalizes me? I would love to know more about that.[/quote]

This is often career dependent. However, you are constantly being judged by store employees, real estate agents, car salesmen, school admissions officers, etc. and are likely to pay an invisible tax depending on how they feel about makeup. It can work in your favor though. Our society favors youth. Makeup ages some women. I look easily a decade younger due to genetics and younger still when next to similar aged friends wearing makeup. [/quote]

i think in most professions women can get away without makeup. Plenty of people in my professional office don't. I don't mind wearing makeup because it takes me less than 5 minutes to throw it on during the workweek and I don't wear it on weekends.  What I think we'll look back on as the "foot binding" of our time is all of the depilation/shaving/lasering away of our body hair. if you think about it, it's kind of a weird pedophile thing to shave your legs, underarms and bikini area (esp the brazilian) because it's making you look prepubescent. (read lolita and you'll see what I mean.) And it takes a hell of a lot of effort and time, and in my opinion doesn't really make you look "better" like make up can - i.e. clear skin, brighter eyes, etc.  But I sheepishly do it because there is no way I can show up at work in my professional office with leg hair or at the neighborhood pool with full bush showing from my bathing suit without being a societal outcast. it sucks and is oppressive.[/quote]

I think shaving underarms has value that has nothing to do with beauty.  I think, especially in summer, it helps with hygiene.  I use an epilator for my underarms, so it's gotten to the point that I don't have to do it every day.  I do a lot of things that cause me to sweat, and I feel more comfortable with hairless underarms when I'm sweating that much.  I don't see it as a beauty thing.  [/quote]

I'm always so impressed with women who can epilate their underarms. Ouch![/quote]

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