I like women who don't wear makeup.

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^ If by "Japanese women" you mean average members of society (as opposed to geisha), then I disagree. I keep hearing that excuse of "artistic expression" as a justification for wearing makeup, but very few people actually use makeup as a form of artistic expression. Most women (not just in Japan; I mean women everywhere) are actually just using makeup to make themselves look prettier.

The people genuinely using makeup as a form of artistic expression are in the minority, and they include: makeup artists in theatre and catwalk events, people who identify with sub-cultures such as goth, Lolita, etc, and certain African tribes. Those kinds of people are painting a brand new image onto the face that does not in any way resemble the natural face underneath, and is just a product of their own creative imagination.

Average women, on the other hand, are painting over their real faces to produce an enhanced and perfected version of what's really there already, and make themselves look prettier. I'm not passing judgement to say if that's right or wrong; all I'm saying is that I don't think that using makeup to hide one's imperfections and enhance one's nicer features falls into the category of "artistic expression" at all.

Sometimes it's so overdone that they look like porcelain toys.

I like that this post is still going, and there are still so many people talking about my personal opinion. You know what I'm gonna let you all have it, cause odds are I'll never meet any of you in real life.

I would just like my final words to be this: when we set standards for beauty, whether it be a 90 pound, make-up clad, damsel, or a 190 pound homely, frizzy-haired, girl, it's just a bad thing to look at the exterior of someone and tell them they need to look different. If someone wants to change their looks using make-up, hair dye, or nail polish then they can, I have nothing against that, but they shouldn't feel pressured from the media (and believe me having grown up with this current generation girls are VERY pressured by the media into looking "prettier"), or from a husband, or friend or anyone else. That's just why I feel that a more natural woman is beautiful, but women who wear make-up are in no way, shape, or form ugly. Just remember the last sentence of my original post, and that I personally care more for what a woman has to say than the way she looks.

HA! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... ke-on.html

Yup, the intent of makeup is to enhance one's natural beauty. Most people can't tell whether or not I'm wearing makeup. I normally only wear a bit of powder foundation to minimize uneven skin tones, and since I wear glasses and my eyes are one of my best features, I wear a bit of eyeliner and mascara to make my eyes a bit more visible behind the lenses. I also wear very slightly tinted lip balm to keep my lips from drying out.

My late fiance used to insist that I didn't wear make up. I finally started making him really look at me and guess if I had it on or not. After a few times of post-shower, pre-makeup inspections followed by post-makeup inspections, he finally got to where he could tell the difference, but he admitted it was really subtle.

Yeh well, I am in that minority too. Also, if a woman is blonde and has barely-there eyebrows, it still looks more attractive than eyebrow pencil.