In Other Words, No More Than a Quarter Inch Deep

[Speaking of 1 Peter 3:3] “Women in the Roman world used to really ‘crank up the volume’ in their personal appearance. The problem addressed by Peter is not hair-arrangements in themselves, or the perfidy of pony-tails. No, Peter is directing his attention to women who were ostentatious, making a display of themselves. The women of that day would braid jewels into their hair, and then sprinkle it with gold dust. Peter is saying that Christian women are not to display themselves in such an immodest way. Some Christians hold, thorugh a misunderstanding of this passage, that ‘it is a sin to wear make-up.’ Peter is teaching that it is a sin for a woman to look like she fell face-down into her make-up, or like she puts it on with a trowel” (Her Hand in Marriage, p. 50).