It just seems whenever a girl asks whether a guy prefers a girl with makeup or without, almost all say that they prefer girls without. But when I see people interacting irl, they will always talk to the girl with makeup than the no makeup girl. I've seen guys telling girls to put on mascara or lipstick so that they can look less "sick". Or online when a girl takes off her makeup guys say "this is why I have trust issues", does that mean she's ugly without makeup? Otherwise they wouldn't say that-? So do guys really prefer girls without makeup? Or do they just say it to make themselves look good to the eyes of others?
The reason I'd say I don't like it, is because it deceptive. That first picture is a great example of that. I'm an older male now so the makeup use and why it's being used is probably one of the first things I look at. But in my younger days, I have woke up next to some women only to realize it was a bit more than my beer goggles that's fooled me. Imagine my young teenage shock when I first found out my girlfriend doesn't have eyebrows until she draws them on.
Makeup worn to accentuate on the other hand just looks cool, like eyeshadow (or it might be called eyeliner [both maybe]). Dudes wear it a lot in performance art, like being the guitarist for a band or a pirate in a movie. It gives chicks an edge... and did I say it looks cool? On a chick it makes my dick hard.
Makeup worn to deceive on the other hand... uuuuggghhh. I'm just glad it doesn't fool me anymore, and feel like a fool for the times I was fooled. There's a reason lighting isn't great and alcohol is served in clubs... just saying. When I run into 'deceptive' use of makeup... like that oily looking powder they put on their face to cover up their excessive drug use or chocolate/soda indulgence (i. e. your first example picture), I get a vibe from it. Fake. Manipulative. Deceptive.
To sum it up essentuative makeup is so hawt, but deceptive makeup... I call it fakeup for a reason. Take the last example picture for instance... she's actually kinda hawter without the makeup. That girl obviously partied a bit and probably didn't sleep well, but she'd get the business.
Figured the 2nd pic I chose represented reality a little more. The first pic to represent teens, well I don't know I had acne as bad as her before so it didn't really look like a major skin condition to me but apparently it is. The third pic was just my fav actress
Often make like the 2nd make up look because they don’t even realise there is make up. But there are two issues with this question.
1. That first picture is completely unfair to both genders. She clearly has a skin problem that she’s probably insecure on some level and is covering for her own sanity, not just attracting men. Also, it’s like posting this: http://i.imgur.com/H3C3Ixu.jpg And expecting everyone to choose the man on the left.
2. There is a difference between putting make up on and using a spade for it. Most men don’t mind make up that’s been applied properly (not saying correctly). There are many styles and most men don’t mind a bit of powder and a bit of masacara. They do mind this:
Make up is supposed to enhance features, that’s its whole function. And then women get pissy that men liked that it enhanced their features and complain when men say they don’t like make up. Most don’t like BAD make up.
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I decided on the first pic because she has a skin condition but she still looks very pretty in my opinion. This is where I wanted to really see whether people see acne/skin conditions as automatically ugly and to be fair, most people do see her as ugly without makeup covering her skin.
Yeah, I've always thought this was ridiculous. Some men say they prefer no makeup but... 1) they will still think the girl with makeup is more attractive, women who wear makeup usually get approached more and receive more male attention. 2) most can't tell the difference between "natural" makeup and legitimately no makeup. I've seen men post pictures of girls who clearly have makeup on and say "see! girls look so much better without it!" Lol
In reality, makeup is designed to enhance beauty, that's the whole point. So naturally, nearly every woman will look better with it. Women who don't wear makeup get told they are unattractive, tired, lazy, etc. but then when they DO wear it, they're "fake" and "lying to men." Haha! We can't win either way so you might as well just do what you want. :)
*Note: not all men are like this, it's mainly a phenomenon I've noticed online. Guys I know in real life don't seem to care whether or not a woman wears makeup.
No, see it's like ya I somehow feel attracted to the girl who has makeup & for example (taking the example of lust, leave love) I don't really enjoy sex, or even making out when she has makeup on, ya that natural kinda makeup is fine in these situations (lust), where it's very minimal. So basically it's for some reason maybe attractive at first glance, but haven't really encountered anywhere where it stays more than that.
(I took in account ur note, but just said this in case that maybe many other man who say they don't like make-up think/feel like this, cause I don't know, cause I haven't really thought/discussed about it)
My make up equals mascara and lip gloss. On regular days it's just tinted lip balms.
Not that I find it hard to learn but... who has the time for an elaborate/plastic looking make up session? From what I have seen, guys do like make up. But guys also compliment girls when they aren't wearing any make up... its when they pay close attention to the little details on her face, her features and still like it.
I personally think girls should not over do it (depends on the occasion) and be comfortable in what they do.
It's not whether a guy prefers a woman without makeup. It's a matter of fact that guys prefer a woman that is naturally beautiful and does not need to cake herself to achieve this look. Men like to know their woman are natural and not fake which makeup can make you look. However, that is not to say a guy does not love makeup on a woman. Afterall, makeup does enhance a woman's features so sure its attractive to men even more so than no makeup. Men just like to know that their woman are naturally good looking and are real.
Well as you can see , imagine the guy going out with lets say the first image girl and he didn't know her or went with her on a blind date and she looked pretty ( the one with makeup ) but later when they get to know each other better or even get married when he sees her without make up it's like a different person that's why they say we have trust issues or don't trust girls now a days , there's a huge difference between the 2 girls , but there's something , when a guy say with no makeup he means he probably doesn't like you dipping your face in your makeups , may be a little make up wouldn't hurt , l mean like to hide a little something ( like in the second photo ) but only to hide what's under her eyes nothing more if you know what i mean , but actually some girls look prettier without makeup , i keep telling my sister so as she looks pretty without makeup and i say she doesn't need any ( but she's married and he husband doesn't mind so am really happy for them :D ) so yeah , if i see a very pretty girl with tons of makeup and then see that she was only with makeup this will shock me and may cause a lot of problems between me and her and you can't compare the last two photos with each other due to different hair style and cloth and camera angle , some makeup wouldn't hurt , but just don't completely change how you look , like the second photo just hide some things like the black under her eyes but nothing more i think she looks good if only she hides this little black
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Some do, some don't. It also depends on the girl in question. I personally never date girls who wear make up. I mean a lip gloss or lip stick+ foundation is as far as I'm willing to go. But that's just my personal preference, it also makes me come off like an asshole, the moments when I'd be talking to a girl and be like "Too bad you wear makeup/fake nails/extensions (whatever)" I'm not looking to change anyone and so I just choose to not date anyone who doesn't suit my preferences. In response to your statement about "that's why I have trust issues." That's usually to girls who be come "two face". They're totally unrecognizable from their natural selves, contouring, this and that. This reminds me of a funny story a friend of mine told me, he'd been on a few dates with a girl, eventually, they decided to get into the bedroom, she asked him to give her a minute, she went into the bathroom, came out and it was a totally different person. He said that in his mind, he was like "who are you?". She was pretty, he claims even prettier than with the make up, but she was a totally different person. He eventually told her about how she looked different &better without makeup, but she was like "I feel naked without makeup." In his case, she was pretty, I'm almost certain, knowing my friend, that he'd have ran away if the person who came out of the bathroom was not so pretty. They're still together, but he says/claims he might go along my path, should he be single again
Guys prefer women that look good without make up. When u keep wearing make up, u cover all the flaws and forget to get rid of them. Acne has treatments and possible cures but it becomes very convinient when u cover it everyday. U will surprise him when u wake up in the morning looking different and not very pleasant, he might not be as impressed as before and loose interest eventhough he might have chosen u over the girls that didn't wear make up. The lady in the first photo with make up on looks so unnatural look more like a painting. Its clear she is hiding something. Some flaws can actually be treated with time. For the 2 other women below u get to see one side of them when u wake up together and if the man still finds them attractive without the make up, then he doesn't get why they are so attached to it and some don't believe they are beautiful without it
The 'make up' photos 1 and 2 in your examples have been heavily doctored in an image editor. Over-smoothed and tone-corrected skin, no shine, no specular shadows, even exposure - it's almost mathematical, and obviously edited. I'm a semi-pro photographer and see this 'fake-up' done all day long.
The best make up in the world is detectable in a professionally-shot image that hasn't been aftertouched.
By that token image number 3 is the only reasonably acceptable reference, to which I would say I prefer less than more, like the other genuine guys here.
If you're on some kind of crusade to prove that men are all window-shopping pigs who want supermodel-looking girlfriends, then you're going to be disappointed.
The overwhelming majority of guys I know want a genuine lady, not some mass-media clone tart.
This question is as old as ever, and it is always phrased wrong. Allow me to settle this. Guys obviously prefer a woman who LOOKS GOOD without makeup, because that means she looks good without a mask. We just want to know what we will be waking up next to. There is nothing wrong with using makeup tastefully, it's when girls paint their face with a mask that guys say "uhhh..." because it confuses us to what she actually looks like. Let us know what face we are supposed to be falling in love with. And too much makeup screams high maintenance, which, according to some studies, is the #1 turn-off for the average guy.
Yup, that, and I think a lot of guys have no idea what goes into applying make-up, and what the difference is between with and without. A lot of women are good enough with applying it to make people not notice that they are wearing it, and so a lot of guys are easily duped into believing a girl just looks naturally like that, when she is actually wearing a ton of well-placed make-up. Guys should start watching make-up tutorials and see the real difference, and then make up their minds as to what they like. The current blathering on of "you don't need make-up" is a trite way of trying to to appeal to a girl's natural beauty while not realizing that they actually like the fake way better. A lot of men are clowns.
In addition, men only contribute to the obsession when they proclaim they want a girl to "naturally" look like that. So few do. So all they accomplish is to make someone embarrassed/ashamed about the amount of effort it takes to look a desired way.
Thank God I'm married to one of them... and that belongs to the eyes of the beholder. What men are attracted to , are men's attractions , not a females opinion
I think when guys say "we prefer girls without makeup", we really mean "we hope you still look good even without any makeup on". It's not that we find makeup to be ugly, it's just we find it to be fake. Thus the "trust issues" thing you talked about. If you look pretty with makeup on, we won't really know if you actually are pretty.
Guys prefer girls that look hot with and without makeup on.
The first girl with makeup on is an 8-10; without it, she's a 2. That's a huge difference. The second one's a 7 with and a 5 without. Not a massive difference but no guy is gonna go out of his way to chase a 5.
Guys want a girl that's at least a 7 without makeup on. Anything less and the guy's kicking himself for wasting his time. So when a guy is rolling up on a 9 with her full face of makeup on, he's secretly praying that when it comes off, her attractiveness doesn't go with it (I. e. the first girl).
It's false advertising. Sure a little discrepancy is to be expected, but not a metric quantity. We prefer women without makeup because it's more genuine to who you are like us the non-makeup market. It's like asking do you want to wait an extra hour before every meal or not? People will choose the time over the flash most of the time. Yeah people still have shallow reactions. You would too if I had abs from the 300 movie and they turned out to be drawn on. Can you really not see this from an equivalent perspective? Props on the confidence boost and your ability to trick us, good one, just don't expect sympathy for when people are honest and harsh. We deal, so should you
Some makeups fine. But the girl on the right is too much, i dont like caked on makeup or unnatural looking makeup. Usually girls who put on that much like the girl on the right, end up looking like the girl on the left without it... makeup does that to yalls face.. think about it. If they sell you make up to cover up pimples, wouldn't it be a smart marketing move to have the make up make you break out more to buy more make up?
Right? Its a horrible scam. I actually have advice for you girls to try this. Keep a bunch of wet whipes in the fridge, use a cold wet whipe before you put on make up, and then take off make up with what ever, use hot water to clean out the pores, then use the cold whipes again to close the pores before you go to bed. Do this for 3 weeks straight and your face won't break out from makeup any more.
I can only speak for myself. I do. I doesn't matter what you look like when you wear makeup because that's not what you really look like. How can a woman ever think a man will accept her if she can't accept herself? Sometimes women wear make up because they truly like it, but the rest, I believe, is them just being insecure about their looks. Dressing yourselves up, similar to how women make stupid faces and manipulate their surroundings to make their lives seem more interesting, color their nails, wear fake ones, spend a ridiculous amount of time on their hair. None of this make you more attractive. I can appreciate a woman that puts a lot of effort into it, but at the end of the day, none of that makes me want you more. The pinnacle of a woman's beauty is, in my opinion, when she gets out of bed. Before she has an opportunity to change the way she looks.
The girl in the first picture has herpes on her face the girl in the second picture looks like she does drugs and the one in the third picture just woke up from a big nap. guys are not obligated to be attracted to you if they dont find you attractive. They dont owe you anything. If they dont like you without makeup then they dont like you just like if you dont like a guy then so what, you dont like him. I honestly dont know what to tell you. These three pictures honestly looks like they have skin conditions or irritations (maybe from the makeup?)
The first girl with makeup on tho 😷. & obviously they're talking to the girl with makeup cos basically 99% of girls that even go outside shove it on their face.
Everyone has a different preference, for me personally I find makeup to be off putting. Like if they were my girlfriend I'd rather not wear their lipstick and have their foundation be rubbed all over my clothes thanks 😒. That and I'd rather have them not be self conscious about their face between me and them. It's just being more true to the other half I guess.
Where are her eyelashes at tho 😂😂 oh dear why do they take it so far 😭
It's one of those impossible questions to answer correctly, and that's why the response is always "yes" - it's easier than going into an in-depth explanation of your opinion on makeup.
Badly done / over-done makeup is not attractive, it provokes an eye-roll response more than anything.
But makeup was designed to allow you to make yourself look better - so the reality is, if applied correctly makeup does make you look better - that's what it's made for.
Of course there will be some who genuinely do dislike makeup 100% but I think for the majority of us, makeup is appreciated.
You're seeing exactly what you're looking for, typical. There's no reason for guys to lie about this. If a man prefers women in makeup, but says he doesn't he's going to be putting up with a lot of anti-makeup females, and vice versa. If a dude says, "Less is more," he's good for it, guaranteed. Not everyone feels the same though. Some guys dig chicks in makeup. Me? Less is more, always. No one has ever heard me say otherwise, because I've never said it, because I've never felt it. Now, I haven't read any studies on the matter, so I don't know how empirical evidence compares, but my experience matches yours in terms of questions & polls... most guys prefer little to no makeup on girls. Either you live in a tragically conservative area, or you're full of doodoo, or you're a pessimist and you're seeing exactly what you're looking for. Most people do. Open your mind before you open your eyes, the world will change in an instant.
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I think they prefer you to be pretty... without makeup. Obviously if you are prettier with makeup they will be more attracted to you when you're wearing the makeup because you look pretty at that time, but it's not the makeup itself that they like, it's how pretty you look with it on.
For example the blonde girl with the black spaghetti strap on looks same with and without makeup the only difference are the darkish bags under her eyes, so I would believe it if a man said he preferred her without makeup.
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Generally yes and ideally yes. Not that you can't look good with it but you need to look good enough without it because that's the real you they want to see. The first pic is a good example of it doesn't matter how plastic-pretty you can make yourself, if you're unattractive when it come off then you are an unattractive person. Subtle make-up is fine, but if you look too different then that's going to drive guys away. The 2nd and 3rd pics are example of girls that are just fine without makeup. I'd rather you be real than plastic-perfect.
I don't mind makeup as long as it's not as ridiculous as this picture you attached. Using some foundation to hide some blemeshes isn't bad, but I don't personally like when someone changes their entire appearance with makeup, like the photo. I think she's beautiful, but has some ache and whatnot. Women who use makeup to "be pretty" is what I disagree with, and what I mean by that is women who think they are ugly without makeup. But overall, makeup to enhance certain features or when you use it for fun is really no problem for me. It just makes me sad when people think they are so ugly that they spend 2 hours a day on makeup
It's fine if a girl wants to wear makeup but don't overdo it. However, after seeing the picture of the girl with bad acne I'm not sure if that's genetic or from make-up or eating bad foods. But if a girl tends to break out wearing makeup... I am no makeup expect but I'm assuming it is the oils the make up that is causing acne to appear.
I know when I use to go for massages at clinics, I would let the massage therapist use any lotion and my skin would react and I would break out on my back and then it would go away after a week or two and then I realized to use an oil-free lotion. To be honest, if girls drink water often throughout the day your face appears to be a little more vibrant. I say only wear makeup when it's really needed.
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