Kim Jong-il has issued guidelines for applying makeup.:

Makeup should be applied in consideration of the tasks for the day, the magazine said, being light enough to look natural when women go out in the day and only more colorful if they perform on stage or “dance in the open air” at night.

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But it exhorted the daughters of North Korea to use makeup to “look beautiful, elegant and sound, bearing in mind that they wear it not to adorn themselves or flaunt their looks but to play their role and take responsibility as flowers of their society, community and family.”

Mrs AsiaPundit says "you should never actually look like you’re wearing makeup, unless you’re a teenager and can get away with it."  That’s the biggest endorsement of any of Kim Jong-il’s proclamations that has ever been made in the AP household.

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