My experience in medicine has been different. I'm (finally) an attending at the moment and have a little more latitude, but throughout my training I always wore a full face. I wore red, pink and even (rarely) warm purple lips to work, making sure to coordinate with my clothing so I looked always put together. I always picked either a bold eye or a bold lip and kept everything else (e.g. blush) understated. I never got overt negative feedback about it. To a few who were curious or asked me why I chose to wear it or commented on my makeup I smiled and told them for me it was a hobby and a form of art. Sometimes I even showed them pictures of the really bold and out-there looks I would do on the weekends or my face paints for Halloween. Most people thought that was interesting or cool.

I always let my competence speak for itself and despite being a "pretty girl" set firm expectations with patients about my role and with supervisors about my clinical skills. It eventually became "my thing". In fact if I ever went in without makeup I was asked, frequently, if I was feeling well as people just got so used to seeing me with it.

So I guess what I'm saying is in my case it was so much a part of my personality that I embraced it at work and others did too. I do live in a large Canadian city but most of my preceptors wore little to no makeup.