| abstract | - Basic Trope: A lesbian character who sports an attractive-to-straight-men appearance, typically pairing with another.
* Straight (not in THAT way): Alice and Betty have faces ripped from a fashion-magazine.
* Exaggerated: Lesbians are the only feminine women in the world.
* Lipstick lesbians are portrayed as even more attractive than straight women, because Girl-On-Girl Is Hot.
* Justified: Alice likes the style.
* Alice lives in a country where lesbianism is persecuted and has to at least appear straight to avoid imprisonment.
* Inverted: Butch Lesbian or Manly Gay
* Subverted: Betty ditches the makeup as soon as she's escaped a social event.
* Double Subverted: ...because she didn't like said event. She then puts it on again.
* Parodied: Alice reads the magazine tips on "how to impress your man!".
* Alice reads men's magazine tips on "how to impress women!"
* Deconstructed: Alice and Betty are deeply closeted, because the deceptively sleepy little town where they live would turn nasty if anyone found out that they were a couple.
* Reconstructed: Alice thinks the butch angle is stereotypical and played-out, deciding she can still be gay and feminine.
* Zig Zagged: Alice and Betty are glammed up the first time we see them...at a formal event. In the next episode, they're in flannel and hiking boots...for a camping trip in the mountains. Neither style turns out to be typical of either; Alice usually looks like a stereotypical Granola Girl, while Betty is a Perky Goth.
* Averted: Neither Alice nor Betty is a lesbian.
* Alice is The Ladette, 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 Fan Service, and believes that Girl-On-Girl Is Hot as long as the girls look pretty.
* The writer wishes to avoid Unfortunate Implications or stereotypes associated with typical depictions of the Butch Lesbian, instead going to the other extreme.
* Lampshaded: "Well, excuse me for liking to look pretty!"
* Invoked: Alice and Betty, usually Chapstick Lesbians, decide to glam it up for a Halloween party.
* 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 and Betty to be ultra-feminine as Fan Service or as a legitimate attempt to avoid the Butch Lesbian stereotype."
* Played For Laughs: In-universe, wearing makeup and dresses is masculine, while having short hair and playing football is feminine. Everyone treats them like Butch Lesbians.
* Played For Drama: Alice's desires to conform and be 'normal' conflict with her 'alternative' sexuality, causing her much angst. Back to Lipstick Lesbian
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