Basic Trope: A lesbian who is at least as feminine as socially expected of women, if not more so.
- Straight: Fashionista Alice likes pink and textile work, wears her hair long, and is lesbian.
- Exaggerated:
- Lesbians are the only feminine women in the world.
- Lipstick lesbians are portrayed as even more feminine than straight women, because fanservice.
- Alice has long hair, uses elaborated dresses, makeup, and is a Girly Girl in general, she even would humillate a Princess Classic, and she has been with many women, and she's a Chick Magnet!
- Downplayed:
- Alice is bisexual, and very feminine.
- Alice and Betty are bisexual girls in a three-way relationship with Bob, and Alice and Betty still act very feminine.
- Alice is lesbian and engages in few boyish activities, but otherwise acts very feminine.
- Justified:
- Alice likes the style. It has nothing to do with her sexual orientation.
- Alice just really loves and enjoys femininity in general, regardless of weather it's in her wardrobe or the people she dates.
- Alice lives in a country where lesbianism is persecuted and has to at least appear straight to avoid imprisonment.
- Alice lives in a time period where tomboyish behavior were looked down upon, and her family raised her to be stereotypical feminine girl. But they didn’t consider that Alice might be a lesbian.
- Inverted:
- Butch Lesbian.
- Wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like Butch Lesbians.
- Alice is very butch, but she is a straight woman who is Mistaken for Gay because of society stereotyping her.
- Gender-Inverted:
- Manly Gay or Straight Gay—gender conforming gay men.
- A straight woman with the gender presentation of a Butch Lesbian, causing just as much misunderstandings as a Lipstick Lesbian in the same setting of the story would.
- Subverted: Alice ditches the makeup as soon as she's escaped a social event.
- Double Subverted: ...because she didn't like said event. She then puts on makeup suitable for home.
- Parodied:
- Alice reads the magazine tips on "how to impress your man!".
- When heterosexual Tomboy undergoes Girliness Upgrade, she starts developing attraction toward other girls during this process.
- As a trope name suggests, there's the magic lipstick that can turn any girl into the Chick Magnet.
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice is glammed up the first time we see her… at a formal event. In the next episode, she's in flannel and hiking boots… for a camping trip in the mountains. Neither style turns out to be typical of her; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical Granola Girl.
- Alice is bisexual, but still count as the bisexual equivalent of this trope because the main relationship during the course of the story is with a woman.
- Averted:
- Neither Alice nor Betty is a lesbian.
- Alice is The Lad-ette, whether or not she is a lesbian.
- Alice is neither particularly masculine nor feminine.
- Enforced:
- They've signed a bombshell actress for the part.
- The writer wishes to provides Fanservice, and believes that Girl on Girl Is Hot as long as the girls look pretty by men's standards.
- The writer wishes to avoid
Unfortunate Implications or stereotypes associated with typical depictions of the Butch Lesbian, instead going to the other extreme. - The gay wedding market is growing, and the wedding industry wants even those to still look feminine in media, given that a) wedding dresses cost more than tuxes, and b) they can sell two engagement rings.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice, usually a Chapstick Lesbian, decide to glam it up for a Halloween party.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "I am a strong proud modern woman and I am not going to turn myself into a Barbie doll clone for any reason, but especially not so I can facilitate your masturbatory fantasies about me and my girlfriend!"
- Discussed: "Why can't any of the lesbians we know be all Rita Hayworth smoking hot instead of always wearing flannel?" "…why am I friends with you?"
- Conversed: "I have to wonder if the writers designed Alice to be ultra-feminine as Fanservice or as a legitimate attempt to avoid the Butch Lesbian stereotype."
- Implied: Alice is feminine and Ambiguously Gay.
- Deconstructed: Alice is deeply closeted, because the deceptively sleepy little town where she lives would turn nasty if anyone found out.
- Reconstructed: Alice thinks the butch angle is stereotypical and played-out, deciding she can still be gay and feminine.
- Played For Laughs:
- Alice and Betty approach each other wearing fur coats, and both do Sexy Coat Flashing to each other.
- Alice realized she was gay during her Princess Phase, when she had a lot of trouble finding a Save the Princess story, where the Princess Classic damsel gets saved by another princess.
- Her Camp Gay friend is really bothered that Alice knows more about showtunes than he does (not because he's gay, but because he's a genuine Broadway fanboy).
- Alice ironically has a Manly Gay boyfriend, bonding over how they're both actually homosexuals.
- Played For Drama: Alice's femininity causes no one to believe she's really a lesbian, causing her much angst and making it hard to get a girlfriend.
- Played For Horror: Bob is running for his life after he finds out that Alice is part of a satanic cult of lesbian witches.
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