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lol at the picture. I think men should be able to wear makeup if they want.
Quote from: Buddy on April 23, 2019, 05:09:00 PM
lol at the picture. I think men should be able to wear makeup if they want.
Yes, I agree. It depends on how well they apply it. Some know how to do it and what works for them and they can look great. Others don't. It's exactly the same for women.
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Quote from: hermes2015 on April 23, 2019, 05:29:56 PM
Quote from: Buddy on April 23, 2019, 05:09:00 PM
lol at the picture. I think men should be able to wear makeup if they want.
Yes, I agree. It depends on how well they apply it. Some know how to do it and what works for them and they can look great. Others don't. It's exactly the same for women.
Yeah makeup is a weird thing to be gendered. It's colored pigments for your face. If a guy wants to cover a spot or wear eyeliner then he should do it.
I believe people have the right to do what they want if they don't violate liberty of others.
Something can be socially rejected even if this is legal and don't violate liberty of others. In this kind of situations society must evolve.
Things that are socially rejected and legal depend of countries.
For example in the bible belt of USA transgender people are socially rejected even if being a transgender is legal.
Something can be socially rejected and illegal even if it don't violate liberty of others. In this kind of situation society and laws must evolve.
Things that are socially rejected and illegal depend of countries.
For example male homosexuality is socially rejected and illegal in the majority of Muslim countries.
Something can be non socially rejected and illegal even if it don't violate liberty of others. In this kind of situation laws must evolve.
Things that are non socially rejected and illegal depend of countries.
I don't know any example of this situation.
Something can be non socially rejected and legal.
Things that are non socially rejected and legal depend of countries.
In the majority of place in the world you can work hard if you want to and nobody will notice it.
LOL at the picture! :lol:
As for male make-up, why not?
Quote from: viocjit on April 23, 2019, 07:57:07 PM
I believe people have the right to do what they want if they don't violate liberty of others.
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Are we talking about drag queens here?
Quote from: Icarus on April 24, 2019, 01:09:44 AM
Are we talking about drag queens here?
No, I wasn't. I see more and more young, straight boys using some kind of make-up, especially on the eyes, plucking their eyebrows, and using lip gloss.
Quote from: Icarus on April 24, 2019, 01:09:44 AM
Are we talking about drag queens here?
No. More day-to-day use, rather than theatrical use.
Male ceremonial makeup in the Wodaabe tribe is quite stunning.
(https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/wodaabe-men-dancing-the-yaake-dance-picture-id174443954)
I use my wife's makeup to cover up little skin lesions (from the sun and being 66). Other than that, I'm my natural ugly.
There is just no accounting for fashion. I am flummoxed by the almost obligatory (according to the current gods of fashion) use of brown shoes with dark business suits. Go back just a few years and that would have been an unforgivable breach of acceptable business or even casual social dress. That would be a fashion offense appropriate to backwoods hillbillies. Not now.
And Girls...really....are you comfortable with all that facial stubble that seems to be the current fashion demand for men? . When I ask about comfortable, I am referring to physical contact situations. (Sigh) I am just out of the fashion loop and I do not understand why some New York fashion guru can or should dictate what I should wear or whether I need tattoos on my face. ass, ankle, or ear. Not to mention piercings. :foottap:
My wife, Elaine, is an E-bay power seller of cosmetics and candles. Her customer base includes a significant proportion of men.........or at least the customers have a masculine names. So pander to the buyer....whatever floats their boat.
Hey, why not? Pretty sure make-up won't make a man melt or anything. Lol. It's just another silly gendered thing for no reason.
I don't care enough to tell other men to wear or not wear make-up.
When I was younger I used to wear some make up, like black stuff mostly not the same kind as the meme in the OP, I thought it made me look the way I wanted to look and how I wanted to express myself. Some people were very much against it and were often loud and rude about it, which is something I don't think I'll be able to understand in a rational way.
I don't wear make-up any more, because now I care less about how I look and how I express myself through appearance. I just want to be comfortable.
When it comes to other people though, I may like or dislike things but I figure that's how they want to look and express themselves and I don't want to interfere with that.
I have not desire to criticize the fashion choices of the individual. To each his own. Some of the bizarre choices are a puzzlement to me however.
Damn! It must be painful to have a metal stud installed in the tongue. I have heard that there is a sexual component but have no way of verifying such a claim. Bear with me please, I was born 50 years too soon.
Me too, I guess. I served in the Navy, but never got a tattoo. The closest I ever got to cosmetics was wax, back when I had a handlebar mustache. My wife also wears very little makeup. She put on a bunch for our wedding so that she didn't appear to washed out by the camera flashes, but I don't think that it was really necessary. Any kind of studs just seem like a potential infection site, to me. But, to each their own. They'll find their "level" in a society based on a lot more than some cosmetic appearance...though I will say that a lot of people are harshly judgmental of them. When I was in supervision I always let the people assigned to me rise or fall by their own merits. I didn't take what had been told to me by the people who made the assignments at face value. A lot of flowers can be found when they are allowed to flourish, and the weeds rear their ugly heads early on.
No, definitely No!
There's a much wider variety of female makeup available.
Quote from: Icarus on April 26, 2019, 03:02:07 AM
And Girls...really....are you comfortable with all that facial stubble that seems to be the current fashion demand for men? . When I ask about comfortable, I am referring to physical contact situations. (Sigh)
It looks like stubble but it's actually manicured and oiled and fk knows what to attain lamb like softness, so I've heard.
Ask the next hipster you meet if you can rub your cheek against his manly growth.
Some men look good going for a more "rugged" style. Others, with a "baby face". ;D
There's always the option of painting a beard on with copious amounts of make-up if the stubble interferes with a relationship. :grin:
Facial hair can be advantageous. Even a short beard is claimed to block out 90% of the UV rays that would cause a sunburn. Pugilists (boxers) often have a short beard because they claim that it helps reduce the risk of facial cuts.
Good topic. Was just talking about a related subject with my wife this morning. (it's a whole 'nother ball of fish, tho)
First: I got no beef with people doing whatever they want - it's their body after all.
My personal preference would actually be that men not wear makeup... and that women not wear makeup as well.
Could be my years on stage. I see makeup as a way to hide your true self. Heck, maybe that's a good thing!
It is too late for me to matter but I have always found that girls with no makeup, or very little of it, are the sexiest of all.