Is lipstick not very popular among the younger generations? [MERGED] (colored, sticks)
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I am a huge fan of women wearing lipstick. I think it looks amazingly good. I think there had been a slow long term decline. A lipstick fan website I visited said it is the fault of blue collar men. They didn't like it and complained to their wives and girlfriends who obeyed and stopped.
Thankfully I live in a 50% Hispanic city and the latinas wear lipstick as much as ever, especially the young ones. Makeup is very much a part of their culture. I also LOVE those fake eyelashes they wear. The latinas really glam it up while the anglo women are more natural looking than ever, driven by insecure blue collar males.
I am 33 and while I obviously have seen it, at the same time it seems as if women with lipstick is far less prominent. Not complaining or saying women need to by any means, just an observation. My fiance is Gen X and she along with other women in her age group wear it, but not so much in my own age group.
Most of the lipsticks I see being worn now are the sheer colors/glosses rather than the bolder colors.
I am also Gen X but have never worn lipstick since it just accentuates how thin my upper lip is
I just go with a lightly tinted lip gloss on rare occasions but mostly just use lip balm. I never could wear lipstick because it always ends up on my teeth, lol.
A lipstick fan website I visited said it is the fault of blue collar men. They didn't like it and complained to their wives and girlfriends who obeyed and stopped.
...while the anglo women are more natural looking than ever, driven by insecure blue collar males.
I fail to see how a man not liking something, such as lipstick, makes him insecure? Maybe they simply don't like it on their lips when they kiss women, or they don't like stains lipstick can leave behind. Seems pretty straightforward to me, nothing to do with insecurity, lol.
I am a huge fan of women wearing lipstick. I think it looks amazingly good. I think there had been a slow long term decline. A lipstick fan website I visited said it is the fault of blue collar men. They didn't like it and complained to their wives and girlfriends who obeyed and stopped.
Thankfully I live in a 50% Hispanic city and the latinas wear lipstick as much as ever, especially the young ones. Makeup is very much a part of their culture. I also LOVE those fake eyelashes they wear. The latinas really glam it up while the anglo women are more natural looking than ever, driven by insecure blue collar males.
So there are no blue-collar Latino men? Who knew? The things you learn on CD!
Methinks someone just doesn't like "blue-collar" men, and that elitism is alive and well--along with anecdotal "theories"-- on that website.
Women are still wearing lipstick. Regardless of what the men in their lives think about it. And I'd be willing to wager, anyway, that men are discriminating enough to appreciate the difference between the gloppy, Kathie Lee Gifford sticky lip look, and tastefully-applied lipstick.
Kylie Jenner hit personal worth of 1 billion from her makeup line...somebody is buying it.
I go without makeup at times...
it's all ok.
Kylie Jenner did come to mind when I read the OP. I hear her lip kits are popular, and they are the first thing advertised when you go to her cosmetic's website. One of the colors was half off last week and sold out within hours. I doubt middle-aged women and older are the ones rushing out and buying her makeup.
I wear lipstick, or some kind of lip color every day. I don't reapply it while out and about though, so it might not be as noticeable that I'm wearing anything on my lips after a few hours. So maybe that's what the OP is noticing? I typically notice older women reapplying their lipstick in public bathrooms, I don't think I see younger women doing it as much.
So there are no blue-collar Latino men? Who knew? The things you learn on CD!
Methinks someone just doesn't like "blue-collar" men, and that elitism is alive and well--along with anecdotal "theories"-- on that website.
Women are still wearing lipstick. Regardless of what the men in their lives think about it. And I'd be willing to wager, anyway, that men are discriminating enough to appreciate the difference between the gloppy, Kathie Lee Gifford sticky lip look, and tastefully-applied lipstick.
I admit the idea in my mind that blue collar men hate women wearing lipstick is based on one opinion I read on a message board. It made a big impression on me and I accepted it as fact but it was just an opinion. My hunch is there could be a kernal of truth to it..the blue collar guys I know complain about fake women and want "real". I also overheard a woman say she quit wearing makeup because her boyfriend made her. I guarantee he is the insecure, controlling type and he doesn't want his gf looking her best.
Yes there are tons of blue collar latinos but it's a different culture and it is taken for granted that women are going to wear cosmetics including lipstick. It probably wouldn't even cross their minds to demand or even suggest their gfs or wives stop wearing it. Their young daughters are often all dolled up..like I said it's part of the culture. When I see old pictures of the USA pretty much all women (and even school girls) wore lipstick so it truly was a part of our culture too but it changed big time which is why I agree with the premise of this thread.
My daughter 19 wears matte liquid lipstick is her favorite and some regular matte lipsticks. Even when she just started makeup she never had the lip gloss/lip balm phase she preferred lipstick from day 1.
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