User blog comment:Bluegear93/Custom Shepard/@comment-68.45.190.47-20111105044720/@comment-4004783-20111106093424

You missed my point. The point was that female Shepard should be able to look beautiful without people questioning her competence. Makeup is not the most important aspect here.

But since you wrote such a lengthy paragraph about it anyway... It's a little funny, considering that Jack, Miranda, Kasumi, Liara, Samara/Morinth (and Ashley in ME3) all wear makeup (plus Miranda finds time to style her long hair regularly) without it interfering with their combat abilities. It may not be realistic, but it is canonical in the ME universe, so we just have to accept the fact that some characters like to spend time on their appearances.

tl;dr: Don't single out just Shepard if you're going to complain about something like this.