Quote Originally Posted by smilingcat View Post
when I was working, I needed respect of my engineers and not look like some bimbette worried more about her looks than work.
Yeah, makeup was one of the many personal grooming/hygiene skills I wasn't taught as a kid, and remains one of the few that I didn't find important enough to teach myself as an adult. I've tried a few times on special occasions, with mixed results. I used to tell myself that it was for feminist and nonconformist reasons that I don't wear makeup, but the honest truth is that I just don't know how.

But, I used to look down my nose at women who took time with their appearance for what I considered "inappropriate" occasions (like, the ones who'd be putting on makeup and styling their hair in the gym bathroom the morning of the second day of TOSRV). But, then came Florence Griffiths Joyner's Olympic appearance. No one could say she wasn't a "real" athlete or that she thought she was worried "more about her looks than about her" training or performance.

To each her own. The ones who want to look nice *and* ride bikes *and* be engineers, hooray for them.