More or less an admission that the REAL reason women want to wear makeup is for sex appeal.
Sad (but revealing) to see this degree of worldliness so prevalent among trades.

When my wife meets up with her married Russian girlfriends in some European city they dress up in their latest finery, swap clothes, wear make-up and all complement each other on how young they still look, drink champagne and then go back to their hotel and chat.
I think women have far wider interests in make-up and clothes than simply seeing how many men's heads they can turn.
It is like saying the REAL reason that men buy high performance sport cars for sex appeal to women.  That is part of it, for some men some of the time, but they also enjoy putting their foot down, throwing it into a corner, the sound of the V8 engine, talking to other petrol heads and the admiring glances from other men.

That's not what she said.  She said that NOT wearing makeup becomes an obstacle for men even stopping to take the time to get to know them.  And, sadly, she's right.  Lots of Trad men would ignore the women without makeup and gravitate towards the ones who wear it ... even while bloviating the entire time about how wearing makeup is a sin.

It's almost like the sports players who feel they need to take steroids to compete, even if they don't want to, because everyone else is using them ... and that puts them at a competitive disadvantage.

Exactly what I am lamenting: 
She is admitting that unless she makes herself a sex object, she will not attract a breeding partner.
May I suggest she deserves a better sort, who loves her for what she is, and for something above and beyond carnal attraction?
Ps: This argument also acknowledges that she will be prowling about in public in cosmetics.
Look how quickly grads have gleefully exceeded even St Thomas’s exception (and how quickly those who would hold to the position of the saints are on that account something less than gentlemen)!

It's always a good idea to function in the real world, how it is, not how we would like it to be.

You may suggest we deserve to live in neighbourhoods without thieves and rapists, but until we do, which will be never, I am not talking my locks of the doors and windows.

I have long suggested to men who are struggling to find someone to marry that they lower their sights in the looks department and raise them in the moral character department.

Eventually many men do.  I know lots of men who chased 9s, refused to date 7s and ended up marrying a 5 or 6.  Had they been smarter earlier they could have snagged a 7.

Like the basement discount store don't take too long to make your mind up because someone else will grab it.

I can't stand these 1-10 numbers, firstly because even physical beauty is in fact very subjective (every man finds different things attractive and unattractive), physical beauty is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to OVERALL beauty.  What you consider a 10, others might consider a 5, and vice versa.  When people throw these numbers out there, they imply that it's some objective standard.  Some of these women who have won the title "most beautiful woman in the world" appear downright ugly to me.  Take Scarlett Johansson, who makes the top of all these lists.  I find her downright unattractive, a "3" or a "4" at BEST (in my reckoning).  Someone who's physically a "10" could be practically repulsive as soon as she opens her mouth and her personality (and lack of character) spew forth.  Even by worldly standards, you could have a very "plain" (by physical-only standards) woman who's extremely attractive because of her personality and intelligence and character.  I've known some of these, where despite below-average looks, they got a lot of interest from men.  I don't care HOW good-looking someone is, after a relatively brief time, the looks wear off and you start to see the person underneath.  How many people get married based on superficial considerations and then, soon after, find that they don't actually like the person who begins to emerge from the inside?  Why do you think that all these great-looking celebrities are in their 7th or 8th "marriages" (not counting other affairs)?  Men need to look for OVERALL beauty, not the fleeting superficial beauty.  Gregg is absolutely correct that the brain is the most powerful sɛҳuąƖ organ.

Oh, absolutely, MOST of the time women wear their makeup to look good among their LADY friends.  They're more concerned about what other WOMEN think of them than what men think.  Why?  Well, it's because women can be ruthless:  "Hey, Becky, did you see how haggard and ugly Joann looked?  She really needs to wear makeup."

I bet 99% of the people here railing against makeup are not married.  When you get married, you start to understand more and more how women think.

Absolutely correct! It could just as well go: I think Susie should take some lessons on how to apply her makeup. Did you see how it was plastered? 
I never think about applying makeup to please my husband, either at home or when going out. When women go out in public they are, I believe, much more concerned by what other women think of them.
Those Russian ladies are beautiful in figure, grace and movement but that makeup is indeed plastered. It is not  offensive as long as they are on stage at a distance. The trouble is that some women wear stage makeup when they are offstage. 

 I don't care HOW good-looking someone is, after a relatively brief time, the looks wear off and you start to see the person underneath

This is true.  But how do you spend a relatively brief period of time with a woman in order to see the person underneath.

You either work with them, or you date them.  These are the normal ways to spend enough time with a woman.

Singing in the choir with them does not, generally speaking, allow you to see the person underneath.  Neither does meeting them in the tea room after Church once every 2 months.

....I never think about applying makeup to please my husband, either at home or when going out. ...

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I think of makeup as part of looking my best.  I won't always put it on around the house, but if my husband is taking me to a nice restaurant for my birthday, I'll wear makeup along with dressing nicely to please him.  I also try to wear it on Sundays as part of my "Sunday best", whereas on other days, if I'm running behind, I might not have any, or not much.  I also try to keep it as natural looking as possible.  I figure it's an act of charity to everyone when I'm wearing it, to look nicer for them, and if I don't have time to put some on, they have to offer it up when they look at me!       Also, in these days, Trad Catholic women can get criticized for the Little House on the Prairie look if we don't at least follow the customs of our times (while still dressing modestly & in a dignified manner), which includes wearing some amount of makeup, within reason, rather than looking like the Amish.  

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I think of makeup as part of looking my best.  I won't always put it on around the house, but if my husband is taking me to a nice restaurant for my birthday, I'll wear makeup along with dressing nicely to please him.  I also try to wear it on Sundays as part of my "Sunday best", whereas on other days, if I'm running behind, I might not have any, or not much.  I also try to keep it as natural looking as possible.  I figure it's an act of charity to everyone when I'm wearing it, to look nicer for them, and if I don't have time to put some on, they have to offer it up when they look at me!      Also, in these days, Trad Catholic women can get criticized for the Little House on the Prairie look if we don't at least follow the customs of our times (while still dressing modestly & in a dignified manner), which includes wearing some amount of makeup, within reason, rather than looking like the Amish.  

Right on sister!
For me, I go shirtless most of the summer, so my wife will be proud.
It is how I show her I love her, and I want to be attractive for her (and want her to know all the other women want me too, but I chose her, so she feels really loved).
Not sure what's up with all these puritans.
I want a woman with tremendous sex appeal, because that's what it is all about.
If you don't do the trick for me, you were meant for someone less good looking than me.
Its all about the charity!
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Cindy Crawford is another one for me.  Like, yuck, maybe a "2".   :)

Sometimes my wife will ask me, "Don't you think she's pretty?" and most of the time I say, "no, not really" and she'd be shocked.  She would think that some woman is breathtakingly beautiful and she'd be wondering how it was possible that I didn't agree.  And she knows that I am always honest with her.

Well Cindy Crawford has a relatively masculine face(especially these days now that it's more gaunt), so it really is no wonder your wife thinks she looks better than you do. People are often very bad at judging the attractiveness of their own gender.