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"We&amp;amp;#8217;ve said it before but I&amp;amp;#8217;ll say it again: there&amp;amp;#8217;s a definite difference between &amp;amp;#8220;girl pretty&amp;amp;#8221; and &amp;amp;#8220;guy pretty&amp;amp;#8221;. You know, you&amp;amp;#8217;re into that over-the-top manicure (you know we can&amp;amp;#8217;t get enough of &amp;amp;#8216;em here!) but guys actually prefer a classic French. So what happens when you&amp;amp;#8217;re dating someone (short-term and especially long-term) and realize your guy, well, isn&amp;amp;#8217;t a fan of some of the things you love to wear? When you&amp;amp;#8217;re dating someone (and especially when you&amp;amp;#8217;re living together) you&amp;amp;#8217;re bound to have disagreements. Some will be minor and some will be deal breakers. Luckily J and I have only encountered the girl pretty/guy pretty thing thus far. J&amp;amp;#8217;s biggest pet peeve? Red lipstick! Yeap, he hates the stuff. He&amp;amp;#8217;s said it&amp;amp;#8217;s for selfish reasons, like not wanting to get it all over his face or mouth. And he&amp;amp;#8217;ll only kiss me on the cheek or forehead when I do wear it. As if! But I do get it, so I usually reserve my red-lipped days for work (the Glamour office is trend-friendly!) or girls&amp;amp;#8217; nights. He also has an aversion to bangs, but I&amp;#x27;ve just finished growing mine out so I&amp;#x27;m OK with skipping that trend for a little while. Not so bad, right? I still wanted to see if my friends were dealing with similar stuff in their relationships, though. Turns out, they are: &amp;amp;#8220;I have this red hat that my husband absolutely HATES! It looks like a hat you could wear at the Kentucky Derby but with less flare. Everyone else told me I looked cute in it, but after a few beers he told me I was embarrassing him and I looked dumb. I guess romance went out the window a while ago! But I&amp;#x27;d totally rock the hat again. Trust me, there are things he wears that don&amp;#x27;t exactly make him look like George Clooney. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not like it&amp;#x27;s an everyday hat so he&amp;#x27;ll have to just get over it!&amp;amp;#8221;&amp;amp;mdash;Jennifer &amp;amp;#8220;So my boyfriend is into the whole &amp;amp;#8216;the more natural, the better&amp;amp;#8217; mindset (which is totally awesome by me), so he isn&amp;#x27;t super into it when I put lots of makeup on. He doesn&amp;#x27;t mind when I do get made up, but he says he &amp;amp;#8216;doesn&amp;#x27;t get&amp;amp;#8217; why I do it. The thing that gets him the most is packing on black mascara. He says it doesn&amp;#x27;t look natural at all, and turns my blonde lashes black, &amp;amp;#8216;so everyone knows that they&amp;#x27;re fake.&amp;amp;#8217; What?! Haha. I still wear it but only on date night now.&amp;amp;#8221;&amp;amp;mdash;Katie &amp;quot;My ex really hated this one jacket I had. So, toward the end of our relationship, I used to always wear it just to spite him. But that&amp;#x27;s another story, haha!&amp;quot;&amp;amp;mdash;Heather &amp;amp;#8220;My girlfriend loves to wear mascara and I hate it. I like less makeup. And her eyelashes look like spiders when she does it!&amp;amp;#8221;&amp;amp;mdash;Matt &amp;amp;#8220;My husband hates my self tanner because of the smell, but I still use it on nights I know we aren&amp;amp;#8217;t going to get busy! And he hates costume jewelry because he buys me expensive, real jewelry and gets mad when I wear the fake stuff instead. I still wear the costume stuff around him but try to mix in some of the nice jewelry too.&amp;amp;#8221;&amp;amp;mdash;Christine Well, there you have it. Guys and girls just cannot agree on absolutely everything. It&amp;amp;#8217;s not natural! But it&amp;#x27;s good to see my friends sticking to their guns on what they like. I may talk a lot about my &amp;amp;#8220;lovey dovey&amp;amp;#8221; relationship (how annoying!) sometimes but I&amp;amp;#8217;m 100% for girl power (ever since my Spice Girls days). Like a trend? Own it! If your guy&amp;amp;#8217;s a keeper he&amp;amp;#8217;ll stick around through color-blocking, cat-eyes and coral lips. Would you miss out on a trend if your guy weren&amp;amp;#8217;t a fan? Do you feel a struggle (especially while long-term) to keep your own identity and interests while still feeling sexy and &amp;quot;pleasing&amp;quot; your guy? I&amp;amp;#8217;ll admit it, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll wear what I want but always think about what J will find attractive too. At the end of the day, it&amp;amp;#8217;s about keeping the balance between what makes you happy and what makes this other, super-important person in your life happy. And, let&amp;amp;#8217;s be honest, red lipstick is not a deal breaker so rock it if you like it! More Guy Pretty vs. Girl Pretty: * Guy Pretty vs. Girl Pretty: Plaid Shirts * Guy Pretty vs. Girl Pretty: Maxi Dresses * Guy Pretty vs. Girl Pretty: Statement Necklaces Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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