What if people got the same amount of pleasure from being stroked as cats and dogs do? Imagine someone's getting angry or stressed and you just stroke them to calm them. That would be amazing.
Actually that does tend to calm people. People show hormonal and psychological responses to physical contact like cuddling, hugging, caressing, etc. the parts of our body with dense fur like hair such as our heads are a good example- many people enjoy having their hair “played with” or “stroked” and find it relaxing as well. Massage is another example. Humans don’t tend to respond quite the same as animals because our minds work a little differently and we are socially conditioned to show restraint- also, animals don’t have the same breadth of readily available options for pleasurable things as we do and so much of what we might take for granted tends to be a “special” treat for animals.
Actors, celebrities, etc
Most people you have seen on tv wear makeup
Makeup is meant to make the person more appealing.
If you find the makeup on the person bad/ugly, it's either
1. The makeup is not in your flavour (it's too matte, dewy, you don't like the colour of the lipstick, etc)
2. You're in the level to understand it's beauty (like drag makeup is very difficult to understand)
3. They're bad at putting on makeup (cakey base, too thick eyeliner, etc)
If we think about this it’s more that we subverted what is considered attractive. Look at those lions- they parallel “naked” humans. The woman is curvy and smooth. The male is more muscled and has thick fur around his face. Men’s hair will grow out long if uncut, men will grow hair around their face as well. But our society doesn’t place value in having the longest bushiest hair all over. We created a cultural expectation of beauty but it isn’t fair to blame make up because men could- and historically did- wear make up, wigs, high heels and furs and lavish bright outfits. What happened?
Well- it’s a long and complex story that I’ll just hit some major points on from a western fashion standpoint. France has long been a fashion center. So the king was a Fop, dressed like a pimp. This guy comes along who is very influential and says a man’s dress should be reserved- that the height of being cool was doing more with less. A simple 3 piece outfit with pants and jacket, easy on the colors and embellishments, a single ornament around the neck. Pretty much invented the modern suit . Around this same time we’re a bunch of revolutions including the French Revolution. It wasn’t a good time to single yourself out as having an outfit that cost more than most people make in their life. Basically It caught on and started to sweep around. This “Proto suit” became quite hot with the democratic types because it was basically a uniform for men. The president and the bank teller wore suits and you couldn’t tell who was who. Much more suited to “egalitarian” philosophy.
Of course we messed that up because of course- the guy with all the money wanted to show he had all the money. So that led to where we are now- where a general person can’t tell the difference between a $100 suit and a $5,000 one- but one is still many roles more, instead of rich guys wearing 60 foot long mink fur coat trains and good played high heels. But those who know generally can tell at a glance you are wearing “off the rack” even if it’s been tailored. So much for that part of the idea. But the suit stuck as default men’s wear. Men once had a hell of a time getting ready to go out much like women. The standards and practices of presenting oneself were much different and more involved. But...
.. war! Men fought wars. Women weren’t allowed to generally. War really shaped the world- and the modern world. Long hair and foofy hairstyles were still hanging in by WW2 but were less common. See- keeping long hair nice is hard when plumbing is barely a thing and there are lice and filth everywhere- more so when you do actual work or work around industrial machines that can catch your hair. So long hair didn’t fly in those settings and was a status symbol on some regards as well. But war- war is a game for short hair.
So soldiers got short cuts and you could tell who was or wasn’t in the fight by their hair more or less at this point. It also is true that war brings opportunities to many. War heroes and veterans and officers. Combat promotions and training and experience and patriotic sentiments so that when those wars ended- soldiers often had contacts and clout and skills or experiences that got them work or prestige. Short hair was made the standard of what a strapping young lad of action should sport.
Likewise- men’s dress and grooming was greatly effected by wars and by the types of jobs Len had that women usually didn’t. These men were usually the ideal standards of “manliness” in society especially at those times- and like caviar, the upper classes have their acquired tastes but the lower and middle classes generally adopt their tastes to the practical and don’t develop the pallet for what the aristocracy is all about until it can be easily or readily had by all- at which point the upper class usually moves on to something else more “exclusive” as a status symbol.
So men slowly moved away from ornate dress and hair and make up towards a functional aesthetic based on the common methods of accumulation of wealth or power. Women however were largely kept from doing things so women’s fashion didn’t start to really move towards the practical until much later and at a much slower pace because lately women were still expected to “be pretty” and out effort into their looks since society wasn’t really using women for much else at the time despite their desires to be able to do more.
There’s a bunch of other things- like women traditionally being expected to “please” men, and as soon as women had money, companies started telling women what would please their man- which happened to be exactly what they were selling by coincidence. It was a man’s job to “provide” for a woman but not necessarily attract her- so it’s more an overall complex cultural subversion than directly related to make up. There’s way more but this is long enough and we could fill books with the history and context and factors.
Most people you have seen on tv wear makeup
Makeup is meant to make the person more appealing.
If you find the makeup on the person bad/ugly, it's either
1. The makeup is not in your flavour (it's too matte, dewy, you don't like the colour of the lipstick, etc)
2. You're in the level to understand it's beauty (like drag makeup is very difficult to understand)
3. They're bad at putting on makeup (cakey base, too thick eyeliner, etc)