Makeup Sports vs. No Makeup Sports

Both of them beautiful.

I made an observation the other evening while we were watching the Olympics. The women's sports seem to break down into those in which the athletes wear makeup and do their hair, and those in which they do not. So, we, of course started tracking, "Makeup sport!" and "No makeup sport, see?"

Those sports featuring lip gloss and mascara don't just categorize by the sweaty or wet vs. not as sweaty or wet sports like you might think; it's nothing so simple. For instance - water polo: no makeup, synchronized swimming: makeup. I thought it had something to do with an artistic performance angle as in gymnastics and synchronized swimming, but then the similarly heavy makeup seen in track blew that theory away.

Does it have to do with the length of time an athlete is performing? The longer you play, the more you'd sweat it off? Not so much - both soccer and basketball players can be seen wearing eyeliner, but not all of them. Then, in those briefly performed sports that favor the larger, big, women who yell like maniacs as they heave there's still no uniformity - weightlifters aren't wearing makeup but shotputters are (at least the USA women are).

I just dunno.