My GF tells me: Brunettes never go without lipstick, while blondes never go without mascara.

As a very brunette Mediterranean, I can tell you that my whole look depends on lip color. With my coloration, my lips would seem washed-out and disappear against the background of my olive skin. And none of that pink jive for me, ma'am. Got to have deep plum.

Quote from: Emme on December 14, 2008, 07:03:43 AM
And scary pale.

No such thing

Interestingly, I was a lighter shade of blond in my youth in comparison to your avatar image, an while I've certainly not tried many shades of lipstick I have to agree reds.. don't work. Pinks, however, at least don't make me cringe as much it seems. But in the same I um, don't have all that much surface area as far as lips go, heh.

Anyway, just thoughts in the wind...

Quote from: Hypatia on December 14, 2008, 03:05:06 AM
My GF tells me: Brunettes never go without lipstick, while blondes never go without mascara.

As a very brunette Mediterranean, I can tell you that my whole look depends on lip color. With my coloration, my lips would seem washed-out and disappear against the background of my olive skin. And none of that pink jive for me, ma'am. Got to have deep plum.

Wow. That's so true. My mom's the same way. She usually goes for red lips.

Quote from: Emme on December 14, 2008, 07:03:43 AM
I'm all mixed up.  I have rather dark brown hair, but I'm so white I'm translucent.  No, really, I make snow look tan.  But, I was a natural blond (see avatar) until my teen years, so my lashes are still blond tipped, even though my hair darkened.  I still have yet to find that perfect shade of red lipstick.  Most redds look horrible on me, and I have rather full lips.  Think Angelina Jolie, then make her poor and not famous, half as pretty, and several inches shorter.  And scary pale.

I found a Mary Kay foundation that was the perfect color for me one year, and it actually looked grey in the bottle.

That exactly the lipstick problem with me. Reds ususally make me lkook like one of the Undead. And totally unforgiving with my skin and hair. I'd love to occasionally wear a red lipcolor, but my goddess, I look like I had just arrived from TRansylvania!

Nichole

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That exactly the lipstick problem with me. Reds ususally make me lkook like one of the Undead. And totally unforgiving with my skin and hair.

I can't really go darker than a deep dusty rose.

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I'd love to occasionally wear a red lipcolor, but my goddess, I look like I had just arrived from TRansylvania!
Nichole

OMG, that's hilarious.  Which one do you resemble?


Kristi

I look, at times like Riff-Raff, the handyman 'igor' character, but since that's the guy who wrote RHPS, and made the money off of it, he's the person I want to be.

Quote from: tekla on December 14, 2008, 11:49:43 AM
I look, at times like Riff-Raff, the handyman 'igor' character, but since that's the guy who wrote RHPS, and made the money off of it, he's the person I want to be.

YOU SHOT FRANK! EVUL!

Around these parts we have a name for women that don't wear makeup:

"physicists."

(Actually, a lot of them do too -- but the mousy awkward women that spend their days aligning lasers while wearing blue jeans from Target and tee shirts fom conferences, bless their hearts, maybe not.)

Almost every woman I see wears makeup, even a majority of the nerdy ones, even the ones with no particular sense of style.

I once wrote a story about the historical Hypatia in a modern setting. I mentioned her driving to her job as chair of a university math department, late for work, and touching up her makeup at red lights, a bad habit she'd tried to quit.

A female mathematician saw that and criticized: "This isn't true to life-- there is no such thing as a math professor who wears makeup."

Quote from: Hypatia on December 15, 2008, 03:32:39 PM
I once wrote a story about the historical Hypatia in a modern setting. I mentioned her driving to her job as chair of a university math department, late for work, and touching up her makeup at red lights, a bad habit she'd tried to quit.

A female mathematician saw that and criticized: "This isn't true to life-- there is no such thing as a math professor who wears makeup."

Okay, technically, Lisa Randall isn't a  math professor. But pretty close ... professor and theoretical physicist ...



Yeah, I think she knows her way around a cosmetics counter.





Dammit. I want to be Lisa Randall.

Since it's a community college I work it, we have "faculty" rather than "professors," but an overwhelming majority of the math faculty are female, and they seem to wear as much make-up as the general population of corresponding age groups.

Lisa rocks, her work on string theory is pretty wild.

Quote from: tekla on December 17, 2008, 09:42:14 AM
Lisa rocks, her work on string theory is pretty wild.

funny, gave me a good laugh.
Also, yes they do. On field studies(School camping experience for 2 days)the girls still wear makeup on the trip, in the wilderness to "Get away from it all" but that defeats the purpose right?