I just have to laugh at this.

People seriously give a shit about their nipple color? Seriously???

Well, I guess if my nipples aren't rosy enough, [future boyfriend-type dude] will just have to live with it.

"Nipple beauty ideal"...I guess I better get to work on a rosy arsehole too, eh?

I can't use this stuff on my nipples, anyway. You can't see my nipples through my tassled pasties, anyway.

People seriously give a shit about their nipple color? Seriously???

I was involved with a woman once who was extremely unhappy with her nipple color, to the point that she wished there were some kind of surgery that could "fix" it.

I used to sell benefit cosmetics, and the story I always heard was that the creation was actually to tint the nipples of strippers, not as a lip/cheek tint. The lips and cheeks were an extra bonus. So in that respect i viewed that use as stage make-up. you want parts to show up on stage. But thinking about it, rosy nipples on a stripper would create a false ideal.

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL.

Again: WHAT THE FUCKING HELL.

Now my NIPPLES have to be a certain color or else the men who've I've ALLOWED to have sex with me will be disgusted?

I want to slap someone.

As a black woman this probably won't do me any good either way, unless they come up with a nipple tint that makes it that perfect "chocolate" shade.

*gags*

I supposed next there will be labia coloring, for once you have it lazered down to "proper" proportions you have to have it that just right shade of pink.

Honestly, is there ANYTHING on a woman's body that we can have to ourselves?

Well, hopefully the spokeswoman in the news piece was just contacted because a consumer heard from a Benefit salesperson (like Erin) that it COULD be used as a nipple tint, not that this will be part of their international marketing and advertising effort, nor will they be looking to define what makes a nipple sexy (apparently a rosy tint?!), and OH do they have the product to help you change your color.

If you look at their web site and find Benetint (http://http://www.benefitcosmetics.com/gp/product/B000FBK5HW/sr=1-1/qid=1173303966/ref=sr_1_1/104-1071407-3974358?ie=UTF8&bcBrand=core), you'll see that its description says "gives lips and cheeks a rosy glow." Let's hope "nipples" won't be added to that.

Oh, and I ask once again how to hyperlink in these posts. Apparently my pre-WYCYWYG (or whatever) knowledge is defunct and I cannot italicize, bold, or hyperlink.

String Bean, you open a tag by using the (or shift-period). Then you type the text you'd like hyperlinked, then close the tag with shift-comma, /a, shift-period.

Hopefully that makes sense :)

Stringbean:

Hyperlinks look like this-

{a href="www.website.com"}your text{/a}

Italics = {i}{/i}
Bold = {b}{/b}
Underline = {u}{/u}
Strikethrough = {s}{/s}

Only, replace "{" with ""

Er, right. Replace the "{" and the "}" with shift+, and shift+. respectively.

Like LF said. Heh.

DUDE, seriously half of my comment just got cut out. This is the problem with trying to explain tags in a comment itself...

Okay, I found a tutorial that should help.

I don't quite get it. It looks like nail polish. Does it stay wet or does it get all hard or something? I don't see how either of those would be any kind of bonus. I don't know anyone who'd want neon pink nipples. Geez.

Benefit's link I posted earlier.

DOUBLE WORD SCORE. Thanks for the hyperlink, bold, and italicize help, The Law Fairy and roymacIII!

Benetint

Test #2. This should work. Apologies for all the futzing. Back to discussion.

One of my friends, whenever we're changing or something, never fails to say something about how much she wishes her nipples were the same color as mine, so yes, some people do worry about this. Which is not to justify this bullshit.

I have a feeling that I am going to hear shit for this..but here it is anyway. Unobtainable and unhealthy beauty expectation are wrong..but I don't think that means all cosmetics are? Is there really something wrong with someone using makeup, or yes even nipple tint, if it helps them feel more comfortable in their own skin? TMI to follow:
I have never personally used nipple tint, but in all honesty I have though about it. And not because white "rosy" nipples are the accepted standard of beauty. Actually, because I am too white for those rosy nipples. I am fair skinned, very fair skinned, my blood is green. With this and my very large bust I have nipples practically the same color as the rest of my breast's skin, and to me this looks freakish. But I accept my body, and even try my best to love my freaky nipples. But if someone else was not as comfortable in their sexuality or their body and painting their nipples for whatever reason made them feel more confident, I am all for it, as long as it is personal choice and not obligation to conform to beauty standards I am all for it.

i would TOTALLY want neon pink nipples...sadly this product probably doesnt do that

After childbirth, aureolas tend to get larger and browner (better target for the baby. No, really!). "Rosy" would be more likely a woman who has not had any children.

And thus, the ideal of the "rosy" tint yet again ties into the notion of the ideal young (virginal?) woman.

Jessica:

you have to be pretty fair to have "rosy" nipples, no?

Evidently, not anymore!

Ok, beyond how appalling this is on numerous levels, has anyone else here ever worn "kiss-proof and water-resistant" lipstick? I have, and if you don't keep it moist with the clear gloss layer they always give you with it, it cracks and tightens and puckers. Also, even if you keep it moist, it takes some pretty strong remover to get that shit off! (Don't get me wrong, I love the stuff, especially if I'm performing and need my makeup not to move, but not on my NIPPLES. Gah.)

Also: thanks Benefit. I have never once considered the color of my nipples one way or the other. And now I'm overcome with the impulse to go into the bathroom at work and inspect myself to see what I think. Thanks a whole fucking lot.

I have to say, the idea of my nipples' color has never even crossed my mind. And now that it has...I still don't care. Are they rosy? Are they rosy enough? No, don't care.

This is beyond weird. Even when we're naked and intimate and hopefully feeling passionately for someone, we still have to be as artificial and "perfect" as possible? Don't think so, babe. When my hair's about to become a rat's nest from sex, when I'm panting and sweating, and twisting in such a way as to not necessarily always show my best side, I don't really care what color my nipples are. And I doubt my boyfriend does either.

Hey elektrodot, Make Up For Ever always has your loud and bright showgirl cosmetic needs: fluorescent nips!

I celebrate the diversity of nipples of all colors, shapes, and sizes. Who's with me?

oh shit, theyve got SILVER!

too bad its freakin 18$..geez

I remember being at the Benefit counter a few years ago and having the salesperson try to push this product on me by whispering conspiratorially that strippers use it on their nipples. I'm like, "is that supposed to make me *want* it?"

I guess it's meant to go with that 'exercise' pole we should be installing in our living rooms. Oh, I feel soooo empowered, just like a gal in a D&G ad...

Odd, I strip for a living. I've never seen a stripper use something to color their nipples. Never.

Honestly, is there ANYTHING on a woman's body that we can have to ourselves?

No, not that I know of.

I love Benefit, too, so I'm kinda conflicted about that...um..."campaign".

Bright rosy nips? I would be concerned about the person's health if I ever saw that.

I know people who swear by this, I still haven't got any yet, though.

SmallBizLiberal is dead on: Small, pink nipples signify youth and nulliparity. 'Cause men want fresh meat.

I'm going to grab my baby daughter and run away to the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival lands. And we're never coming back.

What's the difference between tinting your cheeks and tinting your nipples? Blush was originated in order to make women appear young, fresh-faced, rosy-cheeked, and cherub-like AND/OR give women an "I just came...hard" flush look, thus expanding the "virgin/whore" dichotomy. Hardly in line with feminism, but it's apparently ok to use, as long as you keep it off your nips? Oooohhh kayyyyyeeee....

I don't mean to be an asshole or call bullshit on a blog I love, but it's a wee bit hypocritical. Glass houses, ladies.

SoyMilk, I think people are taken aback by the idea that body parts we generally only show to our lovers also need to be articifially enhanced. There is some notion even among the makeup enthusiasts that one should be able to be "natural" (i.e. not adorned or painted) around an intimate partner.

That said, you make a good point about the purpose of cheek blush. Yick.

For someone like me, who wears makeup occasionally as self-decoration (shiny=fun!) instead of constantly as damage-control or enhancement, the idea that I should wear makeup to make myself appear biologically young, healthy, and sexually desirable (as opposed to socially interested in sex--I recognize that nearly all self-adornment arguably sends that message) is weird in the first place. Much more so that I should continue this ruse with my sexual partner.

What's the difference between tinting your cheeks and tinting your nipples? Blush was originated in order to make women appear young, fresh-faced, rosy-cheeked, and cherub-like AND/OR give women an "I just came...hard" flush look, thus expanding the "virgin/whore" dichotomy. Hardly in line with feminism, but it's apparently ok to use, as long as you keep it off your nips?

None of us have really said that. When we discuss makeup we discuss it in the context of how it's affected women, much like you posted above the use of the makeup wasn't to make the woman feel better about herself, it was designed to attract a man and if you didn't do it (or if another woman did it better) then you were shit out of luck in Spinsterville.

What gets me (and a few others) riled up is that 1) again with the stripper/port sexuality. I don't want to insult strippers and port stars but when in the hell did faux sexuality become the ideal and the new norm? Like one woman posted above, the entire selling point was that "strippers use it" and that was supposed to make her grab it and buy it immediately?

Much like blondeez commented, women can't even have their own bodies even when it's just being by themselves or with a partner. From having surgery on your vagina to make it "ascetically" pleasing to having "rosy" nipples for teh sex we are constantly being bombarded with imagery that as God/Nature made us We. Aren't. Good. Enough and we must pay upwards of thousands of dollars in surgery and cosmetics in order to be considered "sexy".

Yeah. What UltraMagnus said. Part of what's so disturbing about "porn star sexuality" and the aforementioned painting of nipples is that it's yet more encouragement for women to think of themselves as passive objects of male desire, as if the only action one can take in the bedroom is to 'prettify' every single body part in order to draw in teh man like a venus flytrap. All of this so-called 'empowered sexuality' is about *his* desire, and none of it is about hers. I happen to think the whole movement is backlash against all the female orgasm hype of the 80s and 90s, but maybe that's just me...
On a side note, I don't wear blush, but I'm well aware that's beside Soy's point ;)

Non-Rosy Nips Unite!

Why I'll admit to lamenting the SIZE of my nipples I have never even considered changing the color. Seriously, wtf!

Why change our nipples tho? Im a small breasted woman with a very light yellowish-brown color. And they arent that big either, but my husband cannot get enough.

If your significant other requires you use any products like this, tell them to goto hell!

I have to say that I got the same impression from this post as SoyMilk, expressed:

What's the difference between tinting your cheeks and tinting your nipples?

Although Ultra pointed out that no one stated this explicitly, it doesn't take much to infer that this post implies:
- cosmetics on your face = okay
- cosmetics on other parts of the body = questionable

especially when the post contains this line, "Benefit--which is probably my favorite makeup company--" - so not only does the writer use cosmetics, she has enough experience with them to have a favorite company. Clearly, within this context, whether or not cosmetic use is "okay" is not the inherent question.

As a woman who may not have any nipples (among other things) very soon thanks to breast cancer, and will have to make decisions about not only general breast reconstruction and then nipple creation, I got excited about this alternate use of this product. Nipple surgeries often fail or don't go very well, so I personally think it would be nice to have something like this in my back pocket if I felt compelled to use it.

I think that it's a little bit shitty to say that one's own body hang-ups or cosmetic use is okay, while a different, less normal kind of hang-up (such as nipple color) isn't okay. If cosmetically changing the color of my nipples makes me feel better, isn't it extra judgmental to imply that my cosmetic use is freakish, and putting blush on my cheeks is normal?

I have to say that I got the same impression from this post as SoyMilk, expressed:

What's the difference between tinting your cheeks and tinting your nipples?

Although Ultra pointed out that no one stated this explicitly, it doesn't take much to infer that this post implies:
- cosmetics on you face = okay
- cosmetics on other parts of the body = questionable

especially when the post contains this line, "Benefit--which is probably my favorite makeup company--" - so not only does the writer use cosmetics, she has enough experience with them to have a favorite company. Clearly, within this context, whether or not cosmetic use is "okay" is not the inherent question.

As a woman who may not have any nipples (among other things) very soon thanks to breast cancer, and will have to make decisions about not only general breast reconstruction and then nipple creation, I got excited about this alternate use of this product. Nipple surgeries often fail or don't go very well, so I personally think it would be nice to have something like this in my back pocket if I felt compelled to use it.

I think that it's a little bit shitty to say that one's own body hang-ups or cosmetic use is okay, while a different, less normal kind of hang-up (such as nipple color) isn't okay. If cosmetically changing the color of my nipples makes me feel better, isn't it extra judgmental to imply that my cosmetic use is freakish, and putting blush on my cheeks is normal?

This is nothing new. Women have been colouring their nipples for hundreds of years. Artists' models, dancers...

I think that, as with any other makeup, nipple tint is as good or bad as the self-concept of the person who's using it. There's definitely something to be said for hiding things that might otherwise make you self-conscious; my deeply feminist grandmother doesn't wear any makeup at all - except for concealer on her neck, where she was seriously burned as a child. She doesn't cover it up because she thinks there's anything wrong with it. She just feels self-conscious about it, and when she's got makeup on it, she doesn't think about it.

It's the same thing with nipples. If, as some commenters have said, you're self-conscious about the color of your nipples, there's no reason not to perk it up a bit with whatever you can find. But you should do it because you want to enhance that part.

By coming up with a tint specifically for nipples, Benefit has created a new and creepy beauty standard. It's not just a matter of whether or not we want to do this; now we're being told that our nipples should be a certain color, and that if they're not that color, they're not good enough and should be fixed. What a woman choses to do with her body should be her choice, not the choice of some cosmetics company that makes its money by telling women that everything about them is wrong, bad, and otherwise insufficient.

(Incidentally, I do have a surefire technique for gaining that "just boinked" glow, but I haven't figured out how to bottle it.)

Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but isn't it downright gross to put cosmetics on a part of the body you want other people to contact with their mouths?

This has always grossed me out about lipstick, but hey, at least everyone sees your lipstick and you could remove it before having sex. Nipple tint will *only* be seen by the person who, hopefully, will be sucking on that nipple. Or is this a rarer part of heterosexual sex play than I was led to believe?

It's like getting a breast implant that destroys sexual feeling in your breasts... except even more pointless, because putting tint on the nipple makes them gross to taste for the *person who wants to suck on them*. So it isn't even about ruining your own pleasure to enhance his. It's about ruining *both* of your pleasure to enhance what you look like. I mean, could men possibly prefer to look at nipples that are bright pink rather than suck on nipples that taste like human rather than like gross chemicals?

So it's totally stripperifying your body. "Look at me, I'm sexy. But don't actually touch me, or you'll find out I feel gross." This is good for women *or* men? I think the average man would much rather have sex with his lover when she's looking like a normal person than look at her sexed-up body but not be able to touch it.

Are the people marketing this all gay men, or men who hate sucking on women's nipples, or women who destroyed the sensitivity of their own nipples through surgery, or something? Who thinks it's a good idea to put non-food chemicals on a body part you taste?

Well, lipstick tends to smell nice and taste fine for that reason. Not only do I never taste mine when I'm eating, though I know it's coming off on the food, but when I was a kid, I did a taste-test on all my mother's make-up (and yes, I got into wild amounts of trouble, but it seemed like a valid scientific experiment to me at the time) to see what tasted best, and it was definitely the lipstick. So I'm not grossed out by that.

I pretty much agree with everything being said on this post, including both my own "why is makeup ok on your face and not on your body?" point, and other people's points that it takes a particularly creepy turn when we're supposed to use it on our "intimate" (God, how much do I hate that word) areas. That's the beauty of debates like this: we're all correct. It's so easy to bat around these notions of "well makeup was intended to change women so it's NOT feminist but I like wearing makeup and I do it for myself so it IS feminist, but I'm conforming to a male standard of beauty so it's NOT feminist, but no one is going to tell me what I can and can't do with my own body, so it IS feminist." I wasn't trying to make it a black and white / wrong and right issue - quite the opposite, actually. I was trying to point out that it's all just a little more complicated than Feministing's post made it out to be. It's similar to the whole plastic surgery debacle. Most of us would agree that the majority of plastic surgery is pretty evil, yet I know we all get REALLY worked up (myself included) when we start talking about labia/vagina enhancement procedures. That particularly disgusting brand of slice and dice really grinds our gears (for good reason), but it IS all part of the same monster.

Shit. Sorry that was so long.

Alara - what's up with the heterosexual normativity speak?

- ...ruining your own pleasure to enhance his...
- I think the average man...

Is it so far out to think that a woman might want to use this product for her own benefit whatever that may be for her? Is there no room in feminism to be a real live human being with hang-ups and body issues and insecurities?

And god damn women who "destroy" any part of their own body and feel "gross" to another party as a result. Wouldn't this imply that a woman always be concerned about pleasuring her partner? Again, it just smacks of over-arching judgementalism on some level to me.

Interesting. Who here actually likes "rosy" nipples? I'm a big fan of brown-tinted nips to be honest, and I find those really pale pink nipples slightly disturbing (no offence to any owners of such nipples on here)

I rather like my washed out golden brown nipples, and if anything I'd like them browner, not PINK :P

While I agree with the 'ick' part, let me say one thing- the beauty ideals for nipples have already been set. I am one of those pale, fair skinned type and I have no colour to speak of, save for maybe a hint of pink, and I do mean hint. For years all I have read, heard, or seen is of women who HAVE colour, be it rosy, ripe or dark, which leaves me wondering why I couldn't fit in. Would I use this stuff? probably not, but still, don't ignore what's already been done to body image standards, this doesn;t change it, it just reinforces it.

Heteronormativity? I don't know a whole lot of lesbians who feel that their partners would really be turned on if they had bright red lipstick on their nipples, and so they felt compelled to do it. I wrote my post from the perspective of heterosexual women because that's who the product is being marketed to. There may be lesbians out there who get off on how red their lovers' nipples are, or lesbians who think their partners would appreciate seeing bright red nipples, but that seems like an astonishingly low percentage of lesbians, let alone the general population.

I myself am bisexual. And I don't want to suck on women's nipples that have been covered with chemical crap.

If a woman is wearing colorful crap on her nipples because it makes her feel good, well, that's fine. But most people don't wear makeup because it makes them feel good *in a vacuum*. It makes them feel good because it makes them feel sexually desirable which implies that *someone* wants to see them do it which usually implies men, because lesbians are a lot less likely to look at a highly-made-up woman and go, "ooh! hot!" rather than "dayum, how long do you think it took her to put that crap on?"

As for tasting good... lipstick tastes good? Your mileage may vary, of course, but I always found all cosmetics to taste absolutely disgusting... which is why I won't wear lipstick. I bite my lips too much. :-)

I also think we should distinguish between what anime fans call cosplay -- dressing up on occasion in something really unusual-looking, for fun, and the little thrill it gives you to be *different* today -- and regular makeup, which a lot of women wear every day. If nipple tint is being marketed like purple hair dye -- something fun and exotic to do on occasion -- that's one thing. But if it's being marketed as *makeup*, then the concept is just grotesque.

And if you do something to your body on a regular basis to make it prettier by your personal standards, which also make it icky for a lover to touch, then yes, you are commodifying your body. "I don't care if touching me is pleasant for you or not, because I'm not about getting touched. I'm about getting *looked at*. Who cares if no one wants to give me sexual pleasure because they don't want to touch me, it's just important that they look at me and *want* me." I think that turning yourself into an object of the gaze, while being unconcerned as to what impact what you've done has on your actual ability to get sexual pleasure with the gazers, is an appalling thing that society brainwashes women into wanting to do. Because it's not important whether you enjoy sex, what's important is that you *look* hot. If you're using being a desirable object of the gaze to boost your self esteem without actually having any interest in sex with the gazers, that may be a healthy response to a totally fucked-up society, because what does it say to get an ego boost by presenting yourself as a desirable object of an activity you personally do not want to engage in?

People don't feel insecure about their nipples because they just do. They feel insecure about their nipples because they've been *made* to feel insecure. I'm not denying that people legitimately feel insecure and would like a product that helps them with that. But is the real problem that they need a product to fix the "problem", or that they feel they have a problem in the first place?

And if you do something to your body on a regular basis to make it prettier by your personal standards, which also make it icky for a lover to touch, then yes, you are commodifying your body.

Wait... what? I'm sorry, but if I feel like doing something to my body that conforms to my standards, why should I give a damn what anybody else thinks?

"I don't care if touching me is pleasant for you or not, because I'm not about getting touched. I'm about getting *looked at*. Who cares if no one wants to give me sexual pleasure because they don't want to touch me, it's just important that they look at me and *want* me."

Or maybe:
"I don't care if touching me is pleasant for you or not, because I'm not a product for your consumption, I'm a human being, and I'm entitled to do things to my body because I enjoy them, if that's what I want to do. Sometimes I might like to be looked at and not touched, and that's my right. I don't care if no one wants to give me sexual pleasure or they don't want to touch me, because it's my body, not theirs."

I think that turning yourself into an object of the gaze, while being unconcerned as to what impact what you've done has on your actual ability to get sexual pleasure with the gazers, is an appalling thing that society brainwashes women into wanting to do.

It might be. I don't know. I, on a fairly regular basis, put my hair up with gel that makes my hair unpleasent to other people's touch. I do this because I happen to like the way my hair looks like that. I don't really give a rat's ass whether someone else likes touching my hair, because it's my hair. I happen to like that other people think so to, and I enjoy getting compliments on my hair, but I couldn't care less whether most people would be willing to engage in sex with as a result of this choice, because I'm not looking to have sex with most of these people.

Because it's not important whether you enjoy sex, what's important is that you *look* hot. If you're using being a desirable object of the gaze to boost your self esteem without actually having any interest in sex with the gazers, that may be a healthy response to a totally fucked-up society, because what does it say to get an ego boost by presenting yourself as a desirable object of an activity you personally do not want to engage in?

Seriously, come off it. The fact that someone chooses to wear make-up, do their hair up in ridiculous fashion, get body modifications, wear clothes that aren't condusive to sex, etc, etc- all things that some people do in order to draw gaze- doesn't mean that said person is uninterested in sex. What you're describing is just as bad- "Don't do things to your body that might be a problem for the person having sex with you."

The standard you describe is still about commodification- all you've done is take it the other way- don't use make-up because your sex-partner may find it unpleasent.

How is that any better?

not once have i ever heard a man comment about a womans nipples and expressing the wish that they were rosier. not once. and, i have never heard a woman say it either. so basically, they are making this up as a campaign to sell crap. although i do agree that it isnt much different then wearing any other kind of makeup, its just creepy that they even thought it up as a means to sell products. i do like benetint though. i mean, for my cheeks.

as a two time breast cancer survivor, i opted to skip nipple reconstruction each time. ten years ago when i had cancer the first time, the nipple was made of collagen injections that had to be refreshed. then two years ago, i found that the technology had changed/improved and once built, a nipple remained static. However in both instances in order to COLOR a reconstructed nipple, one had to have the color tatooed. For that reason, i could see that a breast cancer patient might totally dig this nipple tint.

However i've been completely sans nipples for two years and i don't think my husband has noticed.

"“Women want nipples to be pert and fresh-looking, and this shade makes them appear that way�

This is my favorite part. "Fresh-looking"? What does that mean? They're not avocados--they don't go bad.

Heteronormativity? I don't know a whole lot of lesbians who feel that their partners would really be turned on if they had bright red lipstick on their nipples, and so they felt compelled to do it. I wrote my post from the perspective of heterosexual women because that's who the product is being marketed to. There may be lesbians out there who get off on how red their lovers' nipples are, or lesbians who think their partners would appreciate seeing bright red nipples, but that seems like an astonishingly low percentage of lesbians, let alone the general population.

Well, as a lesbian, I'm not going to say that I, my girlfriend, or anyone else I know gets wet for bright, rosy nips, but I do think it's weird how the comments in this post and many others almost invariably seem to relate to sex or sexual appeal on a purely heterosexual, or even heteronormative level.

I wear makeup every day. I love it. I wear it for myself, for fun and for self-confidence, for my girlfriend, etc. I don't know if men pay more attention to me as a result, because I don't care. Sometimes, sex and sex appeal occur as topics entirely without the question of the opinions of men. I think maybe sometimes we forget that.

Regardless, the marketing of this product and of the idea that a nipple should be "ripe" or "rosy" is...

Why the fuck would you call a nipple "ripe"? Ripe? Like fruit? Fresh for the picking? Oh, look, a ripe nipple: Just gimme a sec here... *Pluck~*

This is funny. I'm a pale chick with light pink nips and let me say, my whole life I've wanted dark ones. Can't say exactly why - they're more mysterious? They seem less "innocent"? I dunno if nips can take on those kinds of characteristics.

Anyways, I think they should make stuff like this for men. I know a lot of white guys that have wished to have a black man's penis. There's a market here just waiting to get tapped.

Now I don't see this is any different than facial make-up. I have no argument if you're against that too. But there's no logic to say a woman should color her lips but not her nipples.

I think there is a logic--what's happening here is that in terms of being able to feel comfortable in one's own body without being encouraged to obsess about our ability to fit a certain model, looks-wise, women are losing ground. Lip and eye make-up, hair, leg hair--these are all things that are old hat. But now make-up companies are taking a new step in claiming our bodies, and that's worrying.

I don't get the sex-worker chic thing either. Strippers--at least the ones I've seen--also wear six inch heels. It would never cross my mind to do that either, and if my boyfriend doesn't like it, he can either deal with it or break up with me.

I am a bisexual that has had one boyfriend and one girlfriend. I never once thought about the color of my nipples and my boyfriend never mentioned them to me. But then my girlfriend did. She actually loved the color, which happens to be rosy, and was quite turned on by them. I share this to say that some people are concerned with nipple color and may enjoy a partner using it. But that aside, I think that this product is highly disturbing. Of course, most makeup disturbs me, and I think that this isn't much different from facial makeup.

In high school, any mention of my Cherokee background drew mocking laughter from kids who said I was "too white" to be Cherokee Indian... then I went skinny dipping with a bunch of girls. My big dark nipples really stuck out (no pun intended).

Um, I don't wear blush to look virginal or whorish. Cause I'm SO fair, sometimes I need help to look like I'm not a corpse, like my blood is actually circulating. When I bother wearing blush, my mother stops asking me if I'm feeling okay.
...Maybe I should have gotten into the Goth scene?

And yea, my nips pracitcally match my breasts (so pale they are almost blue from the veins running through,) but I don't think my boyfriend's noticed when my 38DD's are in his mouth!

Um, I don't wear blush to look virginal or whorish. Cause I'm SO fair, sometimes I need help to look like I'm not a corpse, like my blood is actually circulating. When I bother wearing blush, my mother stops asking me if I'm feeling okay.
...Maybe I should have gotten into the Goth scene?

And yea, my nips practically match my breasts (so pale they are almost blue from the veins running through,) but I don't think my boyfriend's noticed when my 38DD's are in his mouth!

Um, I don't wear blush to look virginal OR whorish. Cause I'm SO fair, sometimes I need help to look like I'm not a corpse, like my blood is actually circulating. When I bother wearing blush, my mother stops asking me if I'm feeling okay.
...Maybe I should have gotten into the Goth scene?

And yea, my nips practically match my breasts (so pale they are almost blue from the veins running through,) but I don't think my boyfriend's noticed when my 38DD's are in his mouth!

Um, I don't wear blush to look virginal OR whorish. Cause I'm SO fair, sometimes I need help to look like I'm not a corpse, like my blood is actually circulating. When I bother wearing blush, my mother stops asking me if I'm feeling okay.
...Maybe I should have gotten into the Goth scene?

And yea, my nips practically match my breasts (so pale they are almost blue from the veins running through,) but I don't think my boyfriend's noticed when my 38DD's are in his mouth!

That stuff is meant for nipples?

Damn, and I just thought it was the only form of lip colour left for people who don't want greasy, sticky, shiny lips...