Talk:Fancy Lady Day Spa/@comment-98.202.86.212-20120209024758/@comment-3338975-20120628025644

From what the show's creators said in the DVD commentary for the episode before they went here, I think that the reason why they had so much make-up caked on their faces was because the Fancy Lady Day Spa pressed them into buying "the full package" to "feminize" them as much as possible, telling them that "more is always better" in terms of how much make-up is applied so that they'll think it's worth "worth" the extra expense paid - basically scamming them out of their money, because they end up looking garish rather than more pretty. It's just good business to do that, as long as one's customers aren't too discriminating, and Toph and Katara were just looking to have a good time being girls for once (which the spa plainly took advantage of by pushing the "girliest" package on them) and not really paying attention to those details as perhaps they should have (Toph probably wouldn't have gotten her feelings hurt later on by the cliquish-snob Star if they had).

When they applied make-up themselves (as they had to when they disguised themselves as upper class ladies in order to get into the Earth King's party in "City of Walls and Secrets"), however, they tend to be more subtle about it, and I think they both look fine http://piandao.org/screencaps/ep34/ep34-530.png here.