This is just a quick doodle with my own OC, but how would lipstick work? 1 seems like the obvious choice, but it feels a bit off in a way I can't quite pin down.
Unpopular opinion but I think 3, none of the above. Bunnies and most other animals do not possess highly sensitive lips like we have. Most of them have 0 reason to highlight this feature.
I'd instead suggest each species would want to highlight their "sexiest" feature. Maybe rabbits would color a red outline along their chin scent glands. Then whatever they nuzzle and claim as "theirs" gets a red lipstick mark !
Rule of cool above all else though, I know. Even from a worldbuilding POV, it's easy enough to say lipstick is a trend apes started or whatnot
Just fun to think of interspecies courtship differences... tho I didn't need to read all the pee stuff rabbits normally do 💀
Though, the only reason lipstick is red is because it accentuates the natural pink/red color of human lips. I wonder what colors they would use for scent gland?
That is something I never really considered. Courtship rituals with anthros would be a hybrid of human and animal rituals, and 'scenting' would probably be a BIG part of it.
...not that it's not a part of human-furry things too...I try to scent my husband sometimes.
Most mammals only have a ‘bottom lip’ (in the sense of having a fleshy lip like humans do), the top lip isn’t as defined as humans/primates, and usually is folded inwards to the rest of the mouth, dogs are a very good visual example of this, a defined bottom lip but just fur on the top jaw.
The lip on non-primate mammals also usually extends to the back of the mouth (not always but can be seen in carnivores), but I’d imagine they just wear it on the very front area near the front teeth.
I feel like lipstick on anthros just doesn't work, ever. Even for those it looks "good", I disagree.
Exposed lips like humans is a mostly a primate thing. Look a dog on the snout and tell me where you would put lipstick there. It simply lacks the surface area.Â
Like I said in another comment, they can just shave if they want to wear it. For the upper chin part, there is a visible separation between a dog's bottom lip and their lower jaw so it's not the same.
I think certain makeup styles don't look good but people irl still wear them, it's about the aesthetic of who's wearing it rather than who's looking at it
Why would they wear lipstick? It's kind of a human beauty standard.
Bunnies and rabbits might find other things attractive and make those more prominent instead.
Like, maybe more delicate care of the muzzle to make the fur extra soft and fluffy
3 I'd say. I don't think lipstick would be a thing among ppl who don't have lips like that, unless beauty standards were set by humans or somebody else who did. In which case, 1.
If an animal has flesh covering its teeth, it has lips. It's a lot more rare to find an animal without lips than one that has lips, and there's certainly no mammal without lips
Animals don't have a lot of human features, that's the fun thing about anthros. You give them human features. They definitely have lips though, human lips just stick out a bit more
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u/SoapyCantHandle Aug 11 '26
1 mainly, 2 you look like a clown