You missed the point completely. She has told that she doesn't wear make up. That means that anyone who looks at her face can see that she doesn't wear make up. Buying make up after seeing that someone doesn't wear it is, at best, thoughtless, at worst is an offense because it is like telling them "you should weat make up".

Part of my family used to gilft me "girly" things ignoring what I have literally asked as gifts for christmas. They did know I wanted books, legos and other things, but they gave me make up, clothes or cheap jelwery because they thought that I should wear that. It was a pasive-agresive way from them to try to change me. I saw that as what that was. My mother taught me to be polite and say thank you even if I couldn't care less about their gifts. I even pretended to use them in front of them because that is how my mother taught me you show appreciation for those gifts even if you didn't like them at all and weren't done in good faith or actually thinking about you.

Those family member wrongly believed that they "knew better" and that I "ended liking their gifts". I didn't. On the bright side of things, I learned to see the difference between the people that cared and tried to make you happy and the ones that try to mold you into something else. And when I grow older I sold many of those gifts to collectors because many were still in their packages o barely used and looked new. And then I used the money to buy comics.

My point is, those men weren't thoughtful. And expect the other person to be grateful that you haven't paid enough attention to them to look them in the face and see that you never wear make up is quite deluded. It would be like serving you a burned and unedible dinner and asking you to be grateful. You might try it to be polite. You might even eat it. But it is not the thoughtful gesture that it would have been if the dinner was actually edible. They tried and failed. Now imagine a dinner were you are alergic to everything. Another fail that shows the other person doesn't care.

Her point is that many men act as my relatives, doesn't realize or doesn't care when the other person is just polite and is not enjoying the gift/gesture. They just have decided that she should like it and be grateful in a way that catters to them.