Do Guys Like Ladies with Make-up?

Make-up is a long-lived phenomenon– so can men be serious when they claim to not like it? What does our biology say?
Do guys really not like make-up? And further, what role does make-up play in sex and dating?
Throughout all of known human history, women have used makeup to adorn their faces, and no wonder—with everything that could go wrong then and still can now, from disease and famine to garden-variety acne, women have always felt the need to hide facial imperfections.
Yet when a behaviour is found throughout the world, evolutionary psychologists don’t stop at noting it—they attempt to explain it: Why have women, but not men, found it necessary to wear makeup in the first place? Why are imperfections that are openly shown on men’s faces covered up on women’s?
Because males, being able to procreate endlessly but needing a fertile partner with whom to do it, are under a largely unconscious directive to Go Forth & Find Youth & Beauty.
Women can’t make babies forever, but only for a limited number of years. Reliable signs of fertility— youth and beauty—are conveyed by many signals, and a great number of those are worn on our faces. Smooth skin, wide-open eyes, bright teeth, even and symmetrical features, full lips, rosy cheeks, rounded features—all these things go away with age and/or exposure to pathogens and conditions that thwart baby-making.
So, we women love it when a guy has resources and will lavish them on us…but we love it a lot less when the said Catch is only “pretending” to have the goods. If he’s got the great car and a zero bank balance, he’s done the equivalent of putting on the makeup—then having little biological appeal beneath.
In sum, we women have always worn makeup to play up the youth and beauty men demand, and to compete with our sisters for the best guys. And men have always tried to find women who are The Genuine Article—who look youthful and beautiful without obvious assistance.
Advice? If you are out to catch a man, wear Makeup—but do it discreetly. Play up your best features, rather than creating features you don’t genuinely have.
And then watch the Guys Who Don’t Like Makeup…as they line up.
Cheers.
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