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makeup etiquette
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I'm sitting at my desk watching one of my coworkers clip her fingernails. I think this is kind of gross. On the other hand, I don't think twice about reapplying my lipstick at my desk. (I wait for a quiet moment when there aren't a lot of people around.) However, thethoughtfuldresser.blogspot.com/ did a survey. Apparently Europeans consider it (reapplying lipstick in public) acceptable but Americans don't. I didn't realize that this was so open to debate so I thought I'd ask here. What forms of personnal grooming do you consider acceptable in a public venue and at what point do you go to the bathroom to take care of your business?
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I think the only thing I will do in public is pull my hair up. Sometimes I will file my nails, but I get grossed out by it so I'll try and only do it in the car or at home.
I use a lot of lip balm so I do that when necessary. I want to go to the restroom to apply lip gloss so I make sure it looks ok...generally I don't carry a mirror with me. -
EWW!!! Clipping nails in public is absolutely disgusting, not to mention completely unprofessional at work.
As for lip products, I say anything goes. In fact, putting on lipstick seems almost classy to me. I put on chapstick and lipgloss anywhere anytime. I need chapstick so badly that I think nothing of pulling it out in the middle of class and putting it on, or even at a restaurant. I would be surprised if people were really offended by my chapstick habit, but who knows?
I, too, pull my hair up or down wherever I am (not with a brush).
Other than that, I don't think I do any other sort of grooming habits in public. -
Lip balm and lipstick or gloss, yes, but nothing else unless I'm in my car or a washroom. After recently seeing a co-worker pull out a small compact mirror from her purse to apply lipstick, I decided to get one myself. I have to say that I feel very 1950s-style glamourous whenever I use it. They're just so darn "girly"!
Sometimes, it's all about the little things in life.
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Normally just chapstick if I put anything on in public. Otherwise I wait til I'm somewhere private to do the rest.
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Now I do not use much make up, but when I do I do not care much for such etiquette rules. It may be becouse I have Aspergers syndrome, but for me etiquette that are just the things pepole do whiteout any logic behind it are things I never care to follow. Ok not cutting ones nails in public, that is logical as little pieces of your nails will fly everywhere and end up in others coffee and all of that and that just is not hygienic. I can understand nail polish becouse it often smell strongly and the smell can offend others. But why it is ok to take up a little make up mirror and apply lipstick, but not color ones eye lids or put on rouge or the like, that seam completly unlogical to me. Why are lips ok, and eyes not?
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I'm with most of you...re-applying lipstick or lip balm seems reasonable to me! The rest is left to the ladies lounge.
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ive always applied chapstick or lipgloss, really without even thinking. I think lipstick is fine as well. I don't however agree with clipping your nails around people at work! sooo digusting!!
also, ive never put on any other make-up on in public, im even wierd about putting it on in the bathroom when there is a lot of people around.
and i do mess with my hair from time to time wheni im at work, but i never brush it or anything like that. I always used to get in trouble in school when i would use a brush it in class... -
First of all one should NEVER clip fingernails!!!!! That is one of the surest ways for your nails to peel and break. Sheesh... that said...........
Lip balm and lipstick is fine to do in public. Actually, men think it is sexy watching a woman put on her lipstick. One guy I dated used to get aroused when he watched me do this. Do this at a stop light and see if the guys in the cars next to you are watching. Have fun with it.
I would never brush/comb hair in public, but pulling it back or up in a clip is fine.
No makeup application aside from the lips in public.
Polishing nails and toenails at the beach/pool is fine! But nowhere else!
buenos dias,
Lynnette -
then how do u cut your fingernails?
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You do not clip, you file. Clipping, as I said in my previous post, tears the nails, making them split and tear. It weakens them. The nails should only be filed. This goes for artificial nails also. Clipping cracks the product.
For natural nails, the best file to use is a glass file. They "seal" the free edge and you can "see-saw" file them. When an abrasive file is used, they make minute tears in the free edge. The glass file does not do this.
hope this answers your question,
buenos dias,
Lynnette -
Lynette, sorry
but where is the evidence that clipping tears the nails? I've done it all my life and NEVER split or tear them., my nails split when I wash them in heavy duty detergent and desinfectants too much. I've heard this argument over and over and haven't found anyone that can prove to me that nails tear when your clip them (of course, you can clip them in a way that tears them, but you have to be a brute). I've also heard the complete opposite, whcih I don't believe either.
I agree they do not look as good as if you file them (so I clip and then file, because I do not have the patience to file for long), and my nails are short and by no means beautiful, but saying that clipping tears the nails and filing doesn't does not make any biological sense to me, this is dead tissue!!! If they tear is because the keratin bonds are weak for some other reason. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but show me the evidence -
The proof is with my clients. When they clip, they have tears and the nails peel. When I get them to stop clipping, their nails do fine. Who knows----since you seem to not have the problem, but from years of doing clients, this is my observation. And the tearing/peeling does not go away overnight. It takes time. I am in strong chemicals daily... monomers, acetone, etc and my nails do not peel or split. I never use an abrasive on them and use a glass file.
Could be that the detergent is just aiding the clipping with your nails peeling. I highly doubt that the detergents alone will make the nails peel, break or split.
When you clip the nails, you are damaging the free edge. You can see it when you clip the nails.
The nails are dead and when you take clippers to the dead, dry nail, you ARE splitting them. Take a coarse nail abrasive and file the nails up and down and you will get the same effect.
Not sure what you are asking/saying when you say that it makes no biological sense. Does hair get split ends? Why? Hair at the ends is dry and excessive combing/brushing and abuse splits the hairs. Same with nails. Or is that different? Not really, as hair and nails are both keratin.If you brush your nails against sandpaper, you will get peeling. If you use your nails to open clasps on your jewelry, you will get tears.
I would doubt that any of the chop shop techs would be able to tell you why nails split and peel.
I would not go by one person who tells me that it does not happen to them. I am going by my years of observing clients and their habits and my recommendations. Now why would the peeling stop once they stopped clipping?
Where is the evidence that clipping does not make the nails peel?
buenos noches,
Lynnette -
When I was in college, one of my fellow students would routinely paint her nails in class. Even back then, I knew it was offensive and insulting to the professor.
As for the woman at work who was clipping her nails, it's safe to say that nails that are tearing or peeling are the least of her beauty related worries. I don't think she even bothers to comb her hair in the morning.
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could it be the clippers that they use are too dull?
i've been clipping my nails since i was born (well, my mom did it for me first before I had the dexterity to do so myself), and they aren't chipped or split or torn. Well.. my right index finger nail is, but I jammed my finger nail into a those packing tape dispenser and there's a ugly tear in the middle of my nail, where i banged it (don't ask.. i'm clumsy).
other then that.. my nails look just fine.. well, they are sorta ugly.. my cuticles are a mess.. but the edge of my nails are very smooth and not torn..
as for split ends.. the last time someone found split ends in my hair was in 7th grade.. i DO take pride in that! -
For those of you who clip their nails... what do you do after that? Do you leave them clipped? How can you shape nails with clippers? You can never round them or smooth them with clippers.
Well, there are exceptions to every rule and this is likely one of them. But, I will say it as before, I have been doing clients for years and have seen the results of clipping. Nails are made of layers and you are damaging them by clipping. It does not matter what the nails are made of, the bottom line is that clipping does split the nails. No, the clippers are not dull.
You know it can be seen quite well when one clips the toenails. For those of you who disagree with me, just clip the toes and see what happens. The nails peel. They need to be filed when done.
Purple, that is too funny about that woman. Seems her habits are poor all around.
buenos dias
Lynnette -
I think split ends and peeling nails can be attributed to genetics (how strong your nails and hair are naturally) as well as exposure to things that can damage them - and "how much is too much" as far as exposure is concerned comes right back to the genetics of how strong your hair and nails are naturally.
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I clip my nails too. My hair and nails grow like a weed. If I'm rushed when I'm doing my nails one week then I'll skip filing them. By the next week they'll be much too long so I'll clip them but I do file them after. My nails are also like cast iron so I suspect that they're less prone to splitting then someone with softer nails. I asked my mother about clipping her nails since I know she has (or says she has) really soft nails. She said she never, never clips them because it makes them split.
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Karen, 100% agree with you
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I clip them if they are too long, but always file them afterwards, of course, they would be a complete mess otherwise. The only way my nails break is when I get slits on the sides... and then eventually the slit gets to big and I have to cut it. They have never peeled and I'm not quite sure what that would even look like.
Salon techs always clip my nails if they are too long, too.
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