Gotta love the male perspective...
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We've all heard stories about (or dated) the insecure woman who couldn't go down the shops without first applying her lipstick and foundation, but what does it say about the world we live in that even female teens with flawless skin feel they're not complete without their Bonne Bell? |
Since when did caring about your appearance become insecurity? Personally I can't stand men who walk around all day looking like slobs. Walking around with bed head and wearing the shrirt they picked up off of the floor of their room that was the least wrinkled. Men an women both care about their appearance, men can lie all they want about how they "look" isn't important. But lets be real, no one finds a slob attractive. Just because they dont wear MU, doesn't mean they dont do plenty of other forms of grooming. From trimming their beards, and putting gel in their hair and making sure their hair is parted in the exact spot it was the day before, and the day before that. There are obviously plenty of "insecure men" who won't leave the house before doing those things...
Not to mention, I know many women who dont wear any MU at all. And go bare faced all the time. I think a lot of the perception about MU comes from the difference it does make on your appearance. The women at work who go bare faced all the time, on the rare occasion they do wear MU, they do look nicer. But thats not to say that on the days that they don't, they don't look nice. And for myself, I'm so used to seeing myself with MU on, that when I don't wear it, I feel like I look different. Which is why I typically put MU on before I go out. Although recently I've been leaving my house bare faced and doing my MU at work. I don't think that's insecurity, as much as keeping up your appearance. But this explains why if you regularly wear MU, and don't, people notice (the whole look tired or whatever). Just like if you dont wear MU often, and then DO, people notice.
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Other women argue that makup is the same as men putting gel in their hair, the difference being that that process takes a guy about 17 seconds, he'd never lose his job if he didn't do it (hello to all the flight attendants out there), and it doesn't threaten his health. |
It only taked 17 seconds if he's just making his hair look messy. I know for a fact that my dad NEVER leaves the house w/out spending like 20+ minutes on his hair. From gelling it, parting it, and blowdrying it. not to mention all the time he takes shaving and trimming his beard every morning. In addition to ironing his pants, shirt, and tie. This guy seems to imply that all men just wake up and walk out the door.
And I'm quite positive if a man came into work looking like he had just rolled out of bed every morning, unshaven, messy beard, messy hair, and his job involved putting on a public face, that he would be asked to clean himself up. Men have dresscodes too, just because they dont involve MU, doesn't mean they spend any less time.
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Another survey of 2000 women by retailer Marks & Spencer in the UK found "the average woman takes the equivalent of 10 working days a year getting ready for work at 27 minutes per day, and 10 per cent take more than an hour per day."
"The majority of women spend 21 minutes getting ready for a shopping trip, 54 minutes for a night out with the girls and 59 minutes for a 'romantic evening'." |
I'm sure the average man takes that much time to get ready as well. I can spend 30 minutes in the shower LOL. It's not really a fair comparison, short hair and only having to shave their face gives men an advantage when it comes too "taking less time to get ready." When your hair is 1/2 way down your back, compared to an inch long, it takes longer to wash/condition/dry/style. Not to mention shaving my legs, underarms, and naughty bitz is always going to take longer than it takes a guy to shave his beard. So even if I dont wear any MU at all, it's going to take me longer to get ready, I have more things to do, and the things we have in common, will always take longer.