Men like Red Lipstick

Men like red lipstick. Just ask them the next time you put on a brownish lipstick or a barely nude color. Of course this only goes for men who like their women in makeup and not the ones that claim, "honey you look better without all that stuff."

They also like red nail polish. I don't wear a lot of makeup but for years I went to the nail salon every week, through several relationships and various jobs. Boy friends, husbands and co-workers all seem to like red polish. Personally, I like the clean look of a french manicure and when my nails are short (all that typing!), I like to wear pale, barely there polish. Without question, those never get a rave review. I've even had men exclaim, "Why on earth do you women spend all that time and money if you can't see it?" Put on a sexy red and the response is usually, "Wow, you look nice!"

Men tend not to notice mascara unless you put it on very thick, and when you do that they don't like it much at all. Same goes for face makeup. Overall, they just want you to look naturally sexy. The laugh is they will still look at that girl made up to kill.

I've only ever met one man ever who preferred his wife to wear pants instead of dresses and skirts. Men like legs, period. Even if they say, "I'm a breast man, I wasn't looking at her legs I swear babe." They look, and look at legs of all shapes and sizes. Of course if your man is an "ass man," he's going to like it if you wear tight jeans or shorts, no question about it. My advice would be to ask your guy straight out what kind of man he is, but be forewarned. If you ask, be prepared to hear, "Hon, your legs sort of remind me of my college roommate's legs only shaved." We women don't appreciate that kind of blunt honesty when it comes to our physical features.

Your man doesn't like it if you talk through his favorite Star Trek episode, even if he has seen it 9 times. If he mutters something, it's wisest to just sit there and nod. If you can't take seeing it for the 9th time, find something else to do. The same advice goes for football games, Sci-fi movies and the weather channel. I don't know what it is about the weather channel they love so much, but trust me, it's not the time to babble on about what to have for dinner. They don't mind an occasional scream during a horror movie, it makes them laugh and feel incredibly brave, well, next to you anyway.

Since I mentioned dinner, I might as well let you in on a man secret. Dinner is as much about timing as it is about what cut of steak he prefers. It's Sunday, there's an important game on, March Madness or one of their other obsessions. Dinner has got to be planned for either before the game or after; unless he doesn't mind being served his meal in front of the television and you don't mind taking the risk of it landing on your new rug during an exciting moment.

I'm not going to tell you the way to your man's heart is through his stomach; keeping an immaculate house; not throwing out his Led-Zeppelin t-shirt or his high school football jersey; because you know those important things. It's the little things, that matter more than you would think, somehow. Don't ask me why, men are from Mars and women are from Venus after all aren't they? There's no explaining somethings.