It's a holdover from the Egyptian tradition of making up one's face to represent an idealized immortal form that would be manifest in the afterlife..., brah.

Why did ancient peoples no where near enough to egypt to be so influence by them use makeup?

Because women are ugly and smell bad.

Men are easily baffled by bright colours and pretty smells.

Kinda what poorwill said.

Women, believe it or not, are human beings that need to bathe and look like they didn't just crawl out from a dumpster. Make up is not only a wonder, but keeps us wimmens feeling and looking pretty. Women have come a long damn way, yet there is *still* a push for us chicks to look or smell a certain way. Hell, over the last few years some of my guy friends are starting to feel the pressure of "beauty."

I'm relatively simple, I wear make up because I'm vain. Don't forget plenty of women have mastered the "no make up look." Neutral shades of lipstick, light gold or brown eyeshadow with no eyeliner is used to give an illusion. Add a little foundation to even your skin tone, and you damn well fooled half the human population.

Why do men not give a shit about their appearance?

To intimidate other women.

You guys are shallow.

don't worry, womens, memedumpster understands you, if none of these neckbeards do!

Nothing is more attractive than a woman who feels the need to draw a better looking face on top of her actual face.

I'm glad I didn't waste my time in college on women's studies courses.

For the boners.

Women want to feel girly and men want to feel manly. Men do strange things to feel masculine and women do equally strange, but different, things feel feminine. We end up in the same place but take different roads to get there.