Beauty Routine And Your Guy: To Hide Or Not To Hide?


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    Once I read tips from women dating from ancient Greece, one of them was to never ever let your guy see you primping. The only thing you could allow your man to see was you doing you hair (but only if you had nice hair).
   I believe in keeping a bit of mystery when it comes to beauty routines. I think of beauty care and makeup a bit like magic, and I feel that magic works best if the magician doesn't reveal all his secrets.
   I wouldn't go so far as locking myself in the bathroom every time I moisturise, but there are a couple of beauty routines I do in privacy. These are: walking around in any kind of hair or face masks and removing body hair (includes tweezing my eyebrows). I also prefer to apply concealer and foundation in privacy, although I have no such qualms about eyeliner, lipgloss and the like. Obviously, my husband knows that that I wan't born with hair-free legs and that I pluck my eyebrows, but this doesn't mean he actually has to watch me doing that. Because nobody looks as good shaving as the lady on the pic above.

    Do you feel the same way about certain beauty routines, or do you have no such inhibitions? Would you wax/bleach/tweeze your 'stache with your significant other around? What about makeup? Also, I wonder if this is different in a same-sex relationship, girls having a different approach to beauty care and all?


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I don't believe in the mystery. There are guys that like to watch women primp.
My husband delivered my babies, one in my birthing tub, another from my bed. My husband carried me to the bathroom when I was in the hospital dehydrated from food poisoning to support me through vomiting and diarrhea. What mystery is left after all that? He thinks I am beautiful hairy and unshaven, make-up or none. He actually prefers me all natural and real. We have no need to hide anything. We are secure in ourselves and each other.
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I had very similar home births to yours (tub & bed) with my husband helping :-)
Probably tweezing is something I'll always prefer to do in private, but I've never been married so I can't speak definitively. The only other part of my beauty routine is shaving my armpits and I don't care about doing that in front of my man (pretending I have one). So out of a two-part beauty routine, half is mysterious. I am a mysterious lady!

I think it's up to each individual person and her partner. If either one likes mystery and the other has no problem, then why not? But it certainly shouldn't be another "rule" to enforce that women's looks are so important that if a man sees his woman being "unbeautiful" he will love her less or find her less desirable.
I'm not in a relationship, but I do hide my primping from my male roommates. They don't need to know how much time goes into making me look so deliciously mediocre.

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