Women, do you know what lipstick, and painted fingernails are traditionally supposed to mean?

Question

Why it came into use?

And why are most women’s cosmetic’s ‘penis’ shape? seriously go look..........lol

Answer 1

I was watching a TLC documentary on makeup in Western cultures. From what I remember lipstick and blush(both reddish pink) were first used to stimulate arousal in males because during s*x blood flows to your lips making them swell and turn slightly red. Blood also flowed to your cheeks resulting in a flushed appearance.

Eyeliner, eyeshadow and mascara came later as a means to enhance and draw attention to the eyes.

As time has progressed our views on makeup and such have changed so we don't use the traditional colors and makeup schemes as we did 100 years ago.

Answer 2

I don't think this is true, I think the man has a big problem if his p***s looks like a red painted fingernail LOL. And lipstick was originally in a pallette and put on with a brush. You could find a hidden meaning in anything - fried eggs were invented because thye look like boobies?

Answer 3

Yes, I've read about that....I don't use makeup and I never will.  I don't really care what shape it is, though and I don't care about what men find s**y.  I shave my pits and things but I don't bother with makeup...  Natural beauty is the best.

Answer 4

You that bored tonight?  I guess we can't sell cucumbers in the supermarket anymore either eh?

Answer 5

it was used by women in the past to enhance ther features and make them selves more attractive to get a man. it obviously was'nt your max factor though it would have been dye or coal they would have used.

Answer 6

Cosmetics make women look sexual aroused.

This makes them look more 'beautiful' to themselves and men

Answer 7

In every culture and tribe, since the beginning of time, the men and women practice various different rituals and habits to make themselves more appealing.  In some cultures, the size of the piercing determines how attractive you are.  Some areas tattoo their faces.  Today, mostly in the U.S. and Europe, the women use various colors to accentuate their lips and various colors to draw attention to their attractive hands.  That's all we're doing.  In other areas, the thought of applying colored whale blubber to the lips is ridiculous.  And now cosmetic surgery allows us to go even further in enhancement.  But we're not the first and we won't be the last.

Answer 8

I've heard that lipstick is applied to lips on your face to resemble the "lower" lips (think about it) & is supposed to remind men of the "lower" lips, lol. But that's just what I heard...

Answer 9

Let me guess; it has something to do with pharamones.

Answer 10

Yes

Answer 11

Lipstick and nails, "clean collar and cuff, don't know about muff." lol.!!!

Answer 12

I do not know where they came from. I am addicted to doing my nails!

Answer 13

I am not sure what the nail polish means but I do know that painting your lips red or pink is supposed to be reminiscent of engorged and sexually aroused v****a's.

Answer 14

I was reading that women used to do it to simulate sexual arrousal (the lip stick anyway). It was to trick men into being attracted to them. Apparently women also change their clothes and hair all the time to trick men into thinking they are a different woman everyday. Lol. How sexist for both genders!

Answer 15

Yes. Prostitution. There's a reference to 'painted women' as prostitutes in Hamlet... I was reminded about it when I re-read it a few weeks ago.

(Honestly, people go on and on about how corrupting books about s*x and sexuality-- especially involving g*y people-- are on children, but most high schools teach Shakespeare and that stuff is loaded with s*x and homoeroticism-- "lay your hands again upon my sword," anyone?)

Answer 16

To make us look pretty for guys?

Answer 17

Most cosmetics came from stage use cosmetics, to make the actors and actresses appear more visible on stage. I disagree with the notion that lipstick and nail polish were even connected to male s*x organs or even to prostitutes as my reserach shows:

Some of the male cosmetic manufacturers started making money by selling their line of cosmetics to beauty salons. For example, Charles Revson and his brother made nail polish in his new company "Revlon" (1931) and sold their nail products to beauty salons. Charles even used his own fingernails to show the different shades of nail color. Maybeline was created by TL Williams (1915), who created mascara when he first saw his sister apply vaseline to her eyelashes to emphasize.

them.

There were recipes for lipsticks and rouges in beauty books and none could be purchased readily made except through theatrical supply houses. Plain lipstick colors were unsatisfactory because they failed to show up in photography. Russian immigrant Max Factor developed a line of "red color" lipsticks using a signature application that created a beestung lookthat made charestic fashion in the 1920s.

The popular notion of feminists that make-up came from prostitutes, which was not true. Make-up was originally related to actresses, then marketed and sold to women as "emulating the movie and stage stars."