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It is clearly a jealous reaction. There are advantages and disadvantages to most things, including your good looks. Just think about it for a minute. Would you really want to trade your good looks for plain and ugly. If you lived ugly for 24 hours, I think you could probably learn to deal with ignoring these stupid comments for what they are... Life's too short. You were blessed with good looks, cherish it and accept the fact that others may be jealous of it. Humans can be pretty petty sometimes. No pun intended.
Don't wear makeup, throw your hair up in a ponytail.
I grew up in a small town and sometimes you just have to do as the locals do, especially if you're 'just a cashier'. When I was working at a big box home improvement store we had a woman who was in her early 20s and very pretty who wore heels, pant suits etc. to work every day and she was just in Loss prevention.... and everyone else was wearing jeans and tshirts. She looked out of place and came across as not approachable because of it.
So, maybe you should just tone it down a bit?
Thank you but oh hell no.
I get ready like this every morning, no matte what, cause who knows where the day will take me and I may not have time later.
Ill just learn to ignore it.
I'm not changing myself or who I am or what I've done pretty much everyday since I started wearing makeup for some rude jerks.
I never work over 4 hours a day, I'm not going to do that just for 4 hours.
I like to look nice and my hair is wavy if I don't straighten it. I despise my wavy hair, it's not pretty wavy, it's 3 year old who just woke up wavy.
You seem really preoccupied with your looks and how "hot" you've been told you are, so why does it bother you that strangers comment on it? After all, you aren't looking at yourself while you're working, so all that makeup and fussing with your hair is for other people.
Ill make this short and sweet since I am trying to get ready for work.
Within less than two weeks of starting my current job I've had several customers make snide remarks about my looks.
One person called me too pretty to fuction because I screwed up something on the register.
Another made a comment about how I must get paid a lot at my job to look the way I do.
I work at a small grocery store in a super small town.
I wear foundation, a little blush, eye shadow, eye liner and mascara, all done lightly and naturally.
Who the hell makes comments like that?
Seriously?
I assume that those people commenting were men, and when it comes to men, it has got nothing to do with your looks and it has everything to do with the state of mind they are at on that particular day/time.
So if say in the morning one's wife/daughter/relative/secretary managed to upset the man in question, by the early afternoon he'll see her spitting image in every female he comes across, which might happen to be you. In this case remember it's not really you he is bringing the point across for ( that your looks are wrong,) but to that specific woman who managed to upset him few hours earlier. Therefore the best strategy to devise is to make him feel that he gets his fix while hearing the answer like "yes sir, they pay me well, but I wish I had more to afford Shiseido ( Dior, Arden, Chanel - insert any desirable cosmetic brand here.) That usually takes care of a problem and makes him feel that he handled that nasty daughter-in-law properly, without having to address her second time around. You too can exhale the sigh of relief, since you've helped someone to feel better about life in general.
However if those snide remarks are made by women, then situation is a bit trickier, since you have to figure out what exactly upsets them about your looks. Is it the bad hair day, upcoming visit to dentist, unappreciative husband/boyfriend or lack of thereof? Then again it might be annoying boss at work, disrespectful children, wilting gardenias or simply PMS. Hard to tell really, so the best you can do under the circumstances is to refresh your make-up in front of her ( I hope you carry the fancy lipstick case and gilded compact mirror with you at all times) and ask her in the sweetest voice possible "would you like that with plastic or paper ma'am?" No matter which way she'll prefer to take their purchase with, always remember that your looks were not included in her grocery bill. She didn't have to pay for it any extras, therefore her opinion should be of no concern to you at all.
You seem really preoccupied with your looks and how "hot" you've been told you are, so why does it bother you that strangers comment on it? After all, you aren't looking at yourself while you're working, so all that makeup and fussing with your hair is for other people.
I was pudgy in high school and always felt ugly, I lost weight and grew into myself but even though I am not I still feel like that pudgy uncool high school girl, not someone too pretty to function.
Let me tell you,men get VERY jealous of women too.
It doesn't matter if it was men or women.
You shouldn't have to tone down anything because someone else is uncomfortable.
Maybe the men know that you wouldn't give them the time of day in the dating world,so they try to make comments like this.
Its the same in nursing. Wear some makeup and out come the claws.
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