There are so many beauty products out there, and there are so many stores dedicated only to beauty products. It’s crazy! InStyle got the inside scoop on the top 10 most beauty-obsessed cities.
With stores like Ulta and Sephora in select cities, the idea of your residence being linked to your beauty obsessiveness got InStyle magazine thinking. So InStyle asked FourSquare for some figures of how many people check into beauty stores countrywide. For those of you who don’t know, FourSquare allows users to check-in to their online social networks anywhere they visit. From FourSquares calculations (more than 300,000 beauty-related check-ins!), InStyle made a list of the top 10 cities with the highest number of beauty store check-ins.
1. Fresno, California
2. Lubbock, Texas
3. Tulsa, Oklahoma
4. Champaign, Illinois
5. Las Vegas, Nevada
6. Atlantic City, New Jersey
7. San Francisco, California
8. New York, New York
9. Houston, Texas
10. Pensacola, Florida
InStyle’s data was very similar to a survey conducted in February, that found that almost half of American women feel unattractive without make-up. Women in Britain are quite similar to us American ladies. A British study conducted in March found that 91 percent of women said that they would rather cancel a first date than show up without makeup. Also, 31 percent of British women said they wouldn’t go to the gym without wearing any makeup.
Which brings us to our question: would you rather cancel a first date than show up without makeup?
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ranunculus / 3457 posts
No… I usually set the bar low for the first date, that way he won’t have any incredible expectations of me always wearing 6+ inch heels and enough hair spray to blow up a building if someone lit a cigarette near me. I usually save the over dressing for the second date.
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I wouldn’t care if a girl showed up without makeup o.o
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No. I barely wear make-up anyway, and I’m not going to give him the impression that I spend hours on my appearance all the time.
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Wow. LOL. Where was this sample taken from? All the men I know or would have dated would have lost interest or thought I was insane for cancelling a date for being without make-up.
tulip / 15 posts
I’d show up without make-up. What’s the big deal? Perhaps they should show their sample size.
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show up without make-up. i hardly wear any anyway
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Are you kidding? I would go without makeup rather than cancel, and I thinks it’s really ridiculous and sad that 91% of people they asked said they would rather cancel. Take it or leave it, dude…if this gets anywhere you’ll see me without makeup eventually anyhow.
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I’d go without makeup rather than cancel. He will eventually see me without makeup anyway.
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Unsurprising. Lubbock is a college town, and there’s nothing for girls to do but join a sorority and spend their parents’ money on dumb shit.
Only if I had a breakout of cystic acne or scalded my face somehow with hot coffee that morning would I consider makeup essential to that first date. They’re gonna see you without it eventually, right?
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Hrmm…. I guess it depends, LOL.
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No I would not cancel a date.. how silly. Make up does not make me beautiful or confident.
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If your prospective partner would not date you without make-up, he or she is not for you.
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Seriously? That’s sad. I look just fine without make up and if he is possibly going to see me in the mornings without make up, what am I trying to hide? @_@ What’s with these women they surveyed!? My boyfriend loves my no make up face. I wear minimum make up anyway.
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I’ll be the one brave enough to admit that I might reschedule a first date if I didn’t have makeup, depending on my skin condition at the time.
Guess I just don’t like to show it all at the very beginning. I don’t know if I can even trust this person yet, why would I make myself vulnerable in any way whatsoever? And yes… showing my acne scars is being vulnerable to me.
sunflower / 332 posts
I wouldn’t really care (as much as I enjoy applying make up) to show up au naturale. And I definitely wouldn’t wear makeup when i go to the gym.
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Cancel!
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Honestly, I would probably cancel. I just really would want to feel pretty on a date, and unfortunately I don’t feel all that pretty without make up. I really hate dates enough as it is, so being on a date where I don’t feel attractive just sounds like the worst time of my life.
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fresno sucks
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Nope… I would groom my brows and wax and wash my face nice and clean… Do my hair and then that’s it… Oh wait I mostly do that…
You can look beautiful without make up… Makeup is more fun then to look “better” for me.
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Not sure. On a first date, it’s uncomfortable enough without being extra self concious.. And, if i’m without any makeup, on a FIRST date, i’m not going to feel as comfortable as I would with at least mascara. lol Weird, weird.. I realize this. But, I would at least need mascara.. If possible, a dusting of transclucent powder, a very light line of eyeliner and lipgloss.
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i live in fresno. of the two girls that i’ve dated, neither wore make up daily (although, one of my exes did get her hair done regularly). i will say that most people in the city do wear make up though.
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I think its best to have someone be interested in me when I’m at my most plain and then wow them later by getting dressed up but I never wear much makeup anyway.
rose / 980 posts
Fresno is #1? LMAO
Anyone who would cancel a first date than show up without makeup is probably too selfish to date anyway.
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Like said@WaitingToShrug@xanga - I feel vulnerable showing my ache scars. I want to put my best foot forth first. He can see my bare face once he’s in love with me and my looks play less of a role, and who I really am plays more of a role.
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No, I barely wear makeup normally. My guess is that the study was done by surveying the readers of the magazine, which are definitely more concerned about makeup than the general population.