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‘We make-up to keep our men from flirting’

By Maria Famakinwa

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Good percentage of Nigerian women nowadays wear makeup to enhance their beauty and look attractive mostly to the opposite sex. Some women revealed that the reason for applying makeup was basically to keep their men from flirting around with other women.
They explained further that wearing makeup was a magic that keeps their men at bay as they expounded that men naturally are created to be moved by what they see. Some men who spoke with The Hope on the topic explained that regarding women wearing makeup, depends on their husbands’ choice and what they really desire in their wives.
In the submission of a banker, Mr Tosin Adetunji, said that he cannot imagine his wife not wearing makeup. He added that one of the things that attracted him to the woman he married was her beautiful look complimented by her makeup. His words,” Makeup has a way of amplifying a woman’s beauty beyond the natural. My wife would not have been attracted to me if not for her makeup. It is another way my woman expresses herself that makes her picture stick to my heart even when we are not together. I love women who wears makeup, they look inviting and irrestitable, that is the only way my wife can prevent me from going after other women.”
Also, a civil servant, Mr Taye Adetona, who revealed that women without makeup look dull and boring added that he gave his wife money every two months for makeup kits aside money for monthly upkeep. He said, “Makeup is synonymous with women for beauty expression and I see no reason why another meaning should be read to it. Society rate women who wears makeup higher and see them as more confident, sociable and assertive. Wearing makeup has a way of expressing the other side of women’s beauty that is beyond explanation. Applying makeup lighting up women’s mood for uptimal performance. How I wish men too can have such opportunity of enhancing their beauty with makeup.
“Seeing my wife looking charming with beautiful makeup gives me inner satisfaction. Wearing makeup work miraculously to improve a person’s physical appearance. Currently, there is no packaged portion, capable of camouflaging a cruel and vicious personality than makeup. It conceal scars, add colour and vibrancy to a dull face. There was a time my wife did not apply makeup, it was as if she had been sick for months. I then realized that not wearing makeup make some women look weird. I immediately called her to order to prevent me from looking elsewhere and she adjusted.”
When told that not wearing makeup should not be a yardstick to cheat said,” I hate to pretend like most men who claimed to hate women with makeup, they prevent their wives from wearing makeup yet, get easily attracted to other women who polish their beauty with makeup. Sincerely, wearing makeup makes women look pretty and enticing. Most ladies today are unmarried because they are not attracted to men. I do not see anything wrong in applying makeup to achieve what you want. I believe that pretty women are made by makeups. No man wants his wife to look ugly and unpresentable. A sister in my church was dissapointed three years ago after the brother who engaged her went to another church to marry another lady because the brother complained that she looked like an old hag. That is why I pity young unmarried ladies in this category. Even clerics married pretty women who daily rejig their beauty with expensive makeup. I prefer women with makeup and most men do, except for those who are pretending.”
Speaking differently, an engineer, Mr Ben Bolade, opined that most women who wears makeup were doing so to deceive men as he disagreed with the claimed by some that it was to enhance their beauty. His words, “Wearing makeup is a camouflage known with anxious and insecure women for deception. Majority of women on makeups are doing so to attract men. Any right thinking man should understand that another name for makeup is cover-up and getting married to someone who covers up put the marriage in danger.
“I want my woman to be natural. Wearing makeup is artificial beauty that cannot be rely on. Once you sweat or bath, the makeup disappear and will need to be re-applied again. For how long will one continue wasting useful time on unproductive effort when one is not a commercial sex worker? I do laugh at some women in my office anytime they are trying to re-apply their makeups after noticing that the earlier application has been cleaned off. Not all men like women who wears makeup. It is more respectful to look your natural and be assessed base on it than to appear deceitful.”
Sharing a similar sentiment, a teacher, Mr Bunmi Olayinka, hinted that women who wears make up are nursing inferiority complex and low self-esteem hence, they wear makeup to cover up. The man who further observed that men without makeup still look naturally handsome wondered why women cannot appreciate their natural beauty.
His words ,”It is funny that some women spend more on makeup than meeting other essential needs yet, wearing makeup most times make them look uglier and scary when compare to their natural looks. I have heard of a couple whose marriage broke down few months after the wedding because the groom said that the woman was not as beautiful as she appeared initially when he met her. The reason was because the makeup the bride applied then before the wedding completely changed her appearance which confused the groom if the lady was actually the right person he dated. All attempt to explained to him failed and the marriage broke.
“Makeup is so deceitful that it can change an aged woman to a young lady. To those who claimed that they apply makeup to keep their husbands from other women should be told that there are men whose wives apply makeup and still not faithful. This is because wearing makeup does not guarantee marital sustainability or happiness. Men like me perceive women wearing makeup as those with ulterior motives because they are not natural.”
On why some men told their wives to wear makeup said that he cannot speak for them but advised that if a man insisted on his wife wearing makeup, the wife should do accordingly to satisfy him but however maintained that there is more to a successful home than woman’s appearance and beauty.

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