Do people get treated differently if they wear make up

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I don't often wear make up but my friends do. Out shopping and ( it seemed to me but maybe I'm just a bit sensitive today) they seemed to be served quicker in shops/ a bar we went in and the cafe. Aibu or do people get treated differently if they wear make up?

I don't notice any difference but my make up is usually quite natural and I usually wear casual clothes. I find people react more to my mood than appearance. If I'm outgoing then everyone else seems to be and I let stuff slide that would annoy me when in a bad, unsociable mood. Since having a child I hardly ever wear make up and wear glasses and more casual clothes but feel more confident than I used to!

Love it @MaidenMotherCrone !

Yes absolutely. I'm apparently "ugly", a "dog", "minger" when I haven't worn make up. Men used to treat me far better when I wore it. Now I'm older and can't be arsed, I'm blissfully invisible (until they decide to go out of their way to gleefully laugh at me and tell me to my face how repulsive I am).

I haven't noticed any change in how I'm treated since I stopped wearing makeup a few years ago. But I'm confident and well spoken so perhaps that is a factor. Whether someone is wearing makeup or not has no bearing on how I treat them, my job involves interacting with hundreds of strangers and I can't say their appearance is something I think about.

...you can guarantee the bar tender will always attempt to service me before her.

That proper cheered up my journey home! Thanks for the laugh!

Who said upthread that your level of grooming, including make up, leads people to make judgments about how much money you’ve got and behave towards you accordingly?

Spot on! Disappointingly.

When my sister had an interview a couple of years ago she wore a Hugo Boss dress of mine with my Joseph coat. She said that when she went into the same shops she normally goes into, dressed like a casual mum, she couldn’t believe the difference in the way people behaved towards her. Just because she was wearing smart stuff and had a bit of make up on.

I suspect that we all have something shallow in us that leads us to make the same judgment, whether we act on it, or admit it, or not!

I like my face both ways, it's mood that changes it for me. Self esteem and self confidence make such a massive difference.

I apparently sound posh so people physically change their opinion of me, in front of me, when I open my mouth.

So many people make snap judgements on weight, makeup, clothes, accent etc. It's so ridiculous.

Men do get these judgements but nowhere near the same level, that a women receives every second of every day, when she is just going about her everyday life.

No I don't find this at all. Although at a wedding once I'd put on all of my make up and felt pretty caked, and someone said how it's nice that I don't wear make up, so I think I'm doing it wrong

Who said upthread that your level of grooming, including make up, leads people to make judgments about how much money you’ve got and behave towards you accordingly?

I did.

some people look dramatically different wearing makeup

I know I do. Without it my eyes look quite mean because I have very blonde lashes and brows so there's little definition of expression. And I have a small mouth but a wide face, so my features looked tiny and stranded in the middle. If I wear makeup my eyes look huge, the wide face looks like high cheekbones and the tiny mouth can be made to look bigger. I go from sour looking old woman to pleasant looking middle aged woman. Worth five minutes of my time every morning.

I think it depends on the make up. If you are wearing well applied ‘natural’ make up then you will get pretty privilege. If you wear slug brows and fake eyelashes then you are as good as invisible in certain environments, similar effect to wearing track pants.

Unfortunately in my case makeup can’t improve my looks, found this out from a young age! I don’t wear makeup i don’t really go anywhere to wear it I do the school run then work in a warehouse & I never go out with friends, I do find pretty/thinner women are often treated better in my experience overall.

I think so tbh. There was some research for a BBC doc on attraction that showed people graded a customer assistant 25% higher if she wore makeup and women who wear makeup earn 32% more. We are also hardwired to value symmetry in features & bodies as its good breeding/furthering the species quality. Its called the Halo Effect, we perceive & value attractive people to be 'better'. (whatever 'better' is, I have issues with that & 'perfect' in anything).

I’ve worn a full face of make up since my teens and so I don’t know any different. I would say I’m always treated well in any setting. However over the years I’ve been asked - always by men - why I look glamorous, or words similar.
Why can’t I? Why does it even matter? I just like to. Lately it’s started annoying me because it makes me wonder why they feel they can question my choice of what I look like. So I guess that’s not being treated well is it

It’s true IME. I took years and I mean years to grow into my self. I was appallingly shy. Make up was alien to me and I was treated like shit.
Funnily enough though people had more respect the minute I altered.

I think, clothes, hair and make up make a difference, say in an interview, I would always wear make up but minimal I never wear foundation only blusher, mascara, eyeliner, eyeshadow and lipstick or lipgloss and occasionally do my brows

I dont think it's true where I live. I've even been on nights out without any and been served exactly the same as any other.

Yes my kids look at me weirdly if I do (though I only occasionally wear make up.....)

Not sure its a man/ woman thing, and npt sure its make up but more the way you present yourself? Dh gets treated differently dressed nicely to his wrecked tracksuit bottoms and a jumper. I do remember going into a department store dressed up the day after going in not very nice jeans and a raggy fleece with my hair scraggly. The dressed up day I was followed with samples etc and everyone smiled at me, the day before I got looks. It is terrible really. My sil was once advised a different shop might suit her more. She was really high up in Microsoft at the time and prone to spending and asked a different (nicer) worker to help her spend loads under the other lady's nose!!

I have weird eyebrows that stop halfway along, and look rather pale and drab if unadorned. So while my makeup routine takes 5 minutes (tinted moisturiser, eyebrows, mascara, red lipstick) it makes a huge difference to my appearance.

I rarely, if ever, wear makeup. I did wear a tiny bit of mascara on my wedding day.

Do I get treated differently? I haven't a clue. I've certainly never felt invisible... quite the opposite.

It's the law of attraction. You wear makeup you feel more made up and more confident. So you carry yourself better / more confidently, which commands respect. I'm not saying it's right, but it's just how it is. People inadvertently pay more respect to confident people.

I very rarely wear make up, am a bit overweight and dont dress very well. Over the years I have developed from initial expressions being extremely shy and sullen to being reasonably pleasant and i get treated absolutely fine. It's not something I ever thought about and not worth the effort for me.