(December 17, 2012 at 1:53 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote:(December 17, 2012 at 1:39 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I don't know a single guy, not a single one of my male friends, who prefers women with makeup on. What's the point anyway? To trick someone into thinking you look different than you do? Women didn't wear make up for the vast majority of human history. It's another fabricated industry, tricking people thinking they need a product that they don't.
Queen Elisabeth the first had her face plastered with led to keep it as pale as possible.
It is well known that in renaissance and medieval Europe pale white skin was seen as "chic". Because the peasants who worked the fields had darker skincolor. This make up kind of underlined the social possition of a person.
A trend which continues today, for example in India, where people bleach their skin.
And it is wellknown that ancient egyptians used make up. And we know from Roman chronicals that people used paint even in the wildest outscirts of ancient europe. Aswell as we know that roman women used coaldust for eyeshadow and bought blond wigs taken from babarian womens heads.
The Ötztaal man, a bronze age dude who was preserved by ice and found in 1991 actualy had tatoos on him.
Yeah, once I thought about it I realized I was very wrong. Still, I don't get make up myself.