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07 March 2007

Nipple tint. WTF? (SFW)
post by: Specklet at: 14:09 | 47 comments
I dated a woman for a while who had inverted nipples. I hadn't seen those before, or since.

That's all.
posted by cmonkey 07 March | 14:17
As soon as I saw the words nipple tint I thought....Raymond Burr Nipple Rouge! It was a running gag on SNL in the early 80s.
posted by iconomy 07 March | 14:19
That story is so old, I can't believe NYMag bothered to print it. Benetint has been used/marketed as nipple tint since the beginning of time. If they just now put it on the box to get some press, that's great, but did NYMag really have to fall for it?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 March | 14:21
Call me crazy, but I think nipples look great on their own without tinting, painting or aluminum siding (piercings can look hot on them, but I digress). Although if you used several different color tints to draw realistic eyeballs on them, that would be kinda cool.

cmonkey: same here, dude.
posted by jonmc 07 March | 14:26
I saw a male belly dancer one time with gilded nipples. It was a little weird.
posted by mygothlaundry 07 March | 14:27
Teeps, I'm not surprised you are well-versed in the world of nipple tint, given your penchant for lip gloss...
posted by Specklet 07 March | 14:28
I like the NOW lady's response. "lol dumb. ABORTION."
posted by brainwidth 07 March | 14:28
I love the idea that the Supreme Court is spiraling out of control in part because women are distracted by nipple aesthetics.
posted by mullacc 07 March | 14:28
It's not so much that I'm well-versed in the world of nipple tint; but I follow makeup, and back many years ago when Benetint was big, there was a story that it was originally made to be used as a nipple tint. Perhaps they're reviving the story to get some press, dunno.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 March | 14:31
The Gilded Nipples would be a great band name. I'm just saying.
posted by jonmc 07 March | 14:34
WTF, people? What kind of person thinks a product like this up, and what kind of utterly shallow, vapid cretin would buy something like this? If this story is so old, I guess enough people are buying the stuff to keep the company manufacturing it. I despair of this planet, I really do.
posted by TheDonF 07 March | 14:38
"While women are spending their energy, time, and money getting their areolas just the right shade of pink, the Supreme Court is getting more conservative and closer to taking away our long-fought right to reproductive choice.”


OMG! Lots of women (just like their male conterparts) are pretty damn stupid. Film at 11.
posted by pieisexactlythree 07 March | 14:40
What kind of person thinks a product like this up, and what kind of utterly shallow, vapid cretin would buy something like this?

Benetint was/is? sold as a liquid blush and lip tint. So, it's not a totally crazy thing to buy. I used it a few years back; it's nice.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 March | 14:42
what kind of utterly shallow, vapid cretin... etc.
TheDonF, I guess you must have missed the post a while back about anal bleaching.
posted by pieisexactlythree 07 March | 14:44
It's not that surprising, really. In Japan there's a product called Nippless (laugh it up!) that's basically just band-aids without pads that keeps erect nipples from poking up against a blouse. Hell, in the US and elsewhere women and men actually shave their pubes! And some men denude themselves of back and even chest hair. None of these is more vain or less understandable than nipple makeup.
posted by Hugh Janus 07 March | 14:50
"While women are spending their energy, time, and money getting their areolas just the right shade of pink, the Supreme Court is getting more conservative and closer to taking away our long-fought right to reproductive choice.”

Oh, hogwash. These things aren't mutually exclusive. You can abort Clarence Thomas's fetus in the center of the Washington Mall AND still paint your nips a dashing shade of AskMe green - at the same time!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 07 March | 14:52
TheDonF, I guess you must have missed the post a while back about anal bleaching.

Thankfully, yes :)
posted by TheDonF 07 March | 14:53
Hell, in the US and elsewhere women and men actually shave their pubes! And some men denude themselves of back and even chest hair. None of these is more vain or less understandable than nipple makeup.

I'd say that all of that is pretty silly. Naked bodies are beautiful enough without topiary. NTM, all that grooming seems to turn the nude form into just another prepared suit of clothes, losing the quality of revelation inherent in sexiness.

/just my opinion
posted by jonmc 07 March | 15:00
Benetint, that's nothing! I got mine done with luminescent tint, very, very useful in the dark..... Enviornmentally friendly....
no need to put on the light...

everyone's a winner. Let's hear it for glow in the dark nipples!
Yah!
posted by Wilder 07 March | 15:02
That's great. We'll use you as a beacon next time we're lost at sea.
posted by jonmc 07 March | 15:04
... aw shucks don't think they're big enough for that... SOZ!
But I think I could probably keep you afloat...
the Mae West way!

Crazy day at work with the scandal of potentially unemployed junior docs in the UK finally hitting the press....
need to go to bed, now.
(naturally guided by said nipples)
posted by Wilder 07 March | 15:12
I have known about Benetint forever, but I didn't know it was used for nipple tinting. I have a knockoff from Target, it doesn't work as well. I only heard about anal bleaching last year. A co-worker of my husband was reading one of Jenny McCarthy's "Mommy" books, apparently she partakes in anal bleaching.

I don't tint, bleach, or defoliate south of the noggin.
posted by LoriFLA 07 March | 15:17
Is it safe for nursing mothers - 'cause you know, Mrs. Plinth's birthday is coming up and there's a new baby and all.
posted by plinth 07 March | 15:22
Amusing article regarding Anal Bleaching.
posted by econous 07 March | 15:23
Reminds me of the disturbing "Pennies from Heaven" movie starring Steve Martin. He keeps trying to get his wife to put lipstick on her nipples.
posted by jeremiahbritt 07 March | 15:31
I don't tint, bleach, or defoliate south of the noggin.

I take it back. I shave legs and underarm. I'm not that natural.


Is it safe for nursing mothers - 'cause you know, Mrs. Plinth's birthday is coming up and there's a new baby and all.

:) I think the nipples darken during pregnancy and nursing so the baby can hone in.
posted by LoriFLA 07 March | 15:32
>>That story is so old, I can't believe NYMag bothered to print it. Benetint has been used/marketed as nipple tint since the beginning of time. If they just now put it on the box to get some press, that's great, but did NYMag really have to fall for it?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 March | 14:21

benetint is so old that my grandmother uses it.

If you've never used it before (it seems like none of you have even heard of it, save for me and TPS), it sounds better than it really is. It's a liquid-stain make-up that soaks into the skin, as opposed to powder/liquidy make-up that sits on top of skin, which is appealing if you don't like the mess of make-up, but I personally find it unhealthy: I don't like inks or stains soaking into my skin, thanks.

Also, a lot of women don't have agreeable skin on their face that properly allows the absorption of it, so it tends to just stain the fingers when blended it into the cheeks instead. I found it very hard to blend smoothly, too. the applicator is the same as a bottle/brush for your fingernails, which is so super-super-unsexy when you apply it.

Also, it's an ugly shade of pink/red that they use in the benetint formula, and I find that it really only works with very light blond hair/blue eye women who can get away with wearing pink shades (as opposed to orange, coral, deep reds, and browns that go better with like 90% of most women's coloring).

As for the nipple thing, duh, you buy something that gives you a sexy, pink flush on your womanly flesh, well: 1+1=2.

the good thing about it is that there is a nice rose scent that they add to the liquid, and one bottle lasts like forever. and it's only like $30 bucks for a large amount of fluid, so go for it.
posted by scala di seta 07 March | 15:32
I've used it. It's gross on me. I hate the way cheek stain makes my skin look....windburnt.
posted by iconomy 07 March | 15:37
Yeah, I really don't get it. I just use Faux Nipples.
posted by Hellbient 07 March | 15:38
Oh, there's extensive historical, even ancient precedent for this... as well as labia tinting.

I'm actually very surprised that it's taken this long to ping. Not a new idea at all, yet I'm still too cheap to buy a decent mascara - not likely I'm going to spend 30 euros (or whatever) to tart up my (already perfect) nipples.
posted by taz 07 March | 15:39
I hate the way cheek stain makes my skin look....windburnt.

True that. Also, your skin must be porcelain-like or I find that it highlights imperfections. It's good for lips, but it doesn't last.
posted by LoriFLA 07 March | 15:40
Yeah, I really don't get it. I just use Faux Nipples.

I like to go down to the Jersey Shore, stuff about 10 of those inside my trunks dive underwater and slap them randomly on my forhead and back, then surface and walk down the boardwalk saying "what are you lookin' at?"
posted by jonmc 07 March | 15:43
Heyyy, it's Johnny Nipples, long time no see pal...
posted by Divine_Wino 07 March | 16:02
wassup, skillet?
posted by jonmc 07 March | 16:05
A woman I know who is a breast cancer survivor has a reconstructed breast with a tattooed nipple. Problem is, the tattoo eventually fades, and she has to have it touched up about every 5 or 6 years. Then for a year or two, that "nipple" is a little darker than the other, then it pretty much matches for a few years, then it's time for touch up again.

I don't know why, but she cares about this enough to keep gettin' tattooed, when necessary, even though she says it's painful. Apparently, there are some people to whom the right shade of pink is vital.
posted by paulsc 07 March | 16:15
Where is ikkyu2 (aka Dr. Nipples) during this discussion?

Did you say Tinted Nipples?
posted by wendell 07 March | 16:15
How on earth would a tattoo look even remotely like a nipple? Or... did you mean she tattoos the areola?
posted by Specklet 07 March | 16:18
wassup, skillet?

You rang?
posted by Hugh Janus 07 March | 16:26
They do permanent makeup on faces, which is the same thing as a tattoo, really, so tattooing the colors on nipples doesn't seem that strange. I didn't know they did tattoos for nipples, but it makes sense.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 07 March | 16:26
Specklet, a surgical stitch, and, I think, a bit of cartilage raises the center of the area to form a "nipple," and it is then tattooed, along with a realistic areola. She said the guy who did her reconstruction spends 20 minutes per operation makin' a new nipple. Takes a couple hours afterward to get tattooed. She's been happy with the reconstruction, which was done in the same procedure as her mastectomy.

I've seen hers up close and personal, and it's astonishingly lifelike, when it isn't faded, or freshly tattooed. Boob wise, she looks as good now as she did at 18.
posted by paulsc 07 March | 16:31
I understand now. And yeah, I can see how that might be important to someone...
posted by Specklet 07 March | 16:32
When I was in seventh grade science class, I had a report to do on the lungs, and every time the word "alveoli" came up, I wrote, "areola." On purpose.

We had to present our reports to the class, and even though the teacher had circled the first "areola" and written, "I think you mean alveoli" in the margin, I persisted with my "mistake" when I read it aloud.

Nobody in the class got the joke (none of them had read their science and sex-ed textbooks cover-to-cover like I had), so nobody understood why the teacher was beet red by the time I finished. He was sweating when he announced to the class, "[Hugh] meant 'alveoli,' not 'areola.'"
posted by Hugh Janus 07 March | 16:34
On the first day of Hugh's school, beet red teacher also said "class, I think Hugh means to say Jah-nus", to which he replied "I think I know my last name".
posted by Hellbient 07 March | 17:21
does nipple tint taste good?
posted by shane 07 March | 21:23
I prefer less hairy guys....furry backs, ick!
posted by brujita 08 March | 00:55
Yes, a friend who is a breast surgeon insists on doing this herself ( the nipple tattoo) Many of the surgeons here have a nurse practitioner or nurse specialist trained to do it.
It seems to matter an awful lot to some of the patients, and I know the care and attention she gives this task after sometime gruelling mastectomy & reconstruction really pays off. I don't know how she keep her concentration levels (some of the surgeries last up to 7 hours) but she say that's the most relaxing part of the op. It's kind of a wind-down period for her.
posted by Wilder 08 March | 09:14
Interesting, I would have guessed they would wait several weeks.
posted by Mitheral 08 March | 10:27
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