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[trans-ireland]

Makeup tips for FTM people!

Hey kiddos Liver here, 

Although makeup is seen to be a “traditionally feminine” thing (which is bullshit) it can be used to make your face more masculine! It can also boost your confidence by hiding things like spots (which can increase on T), under eye circles ect.. Of course, there's not a thing in the world wrong with those things but some people may choose to cover them. 

So let’s start with the very very basics, what kind of stuff will you need? I’ve put in bold the stuff that is vital, everything else is pretty optional. I get most of my makeup from Pennys because its hella cheap, you can also check out Tesco and boots because they do some pretty awesome deals! Speaking of deals, go to dealz! They have really really cheap makeup (as do simular discount stores but dealz tends to have more banded stuff). 

-Face cleaning stuff

If you wanna put on makeup you need a clean face. I cannot press this enough, clean ya god damn face boi. Grab yourself an exfoliator (try to avoid microbeads) a cleanser and a cleanser that removes makeup like cleansing water. This is a really good video about all this stuff but it is UK based. 

-Moisturiser 

You gotta make sure your face is all soft and smooth to put the makeup on.

-Primer 

 Primer is a base for your makeup, it will help it to look smoother, cleaner and stay longer. I use Catrice Prime and Fine. There are loads of different ones but I would 100% recommend one that is mattifying! 

-Foundation 

Foundation evens out your skin tone and acts as a base for the rest of your makeup. I use a Catrice one but the name has rubbed off. Make sure you get one that matches your skin tone. Again there are many types of foundation but I recommend one that again is mattifying. 

-Setting powder 

Setting powder is gonna keep everything in place as well as help you look way more matt. I actually use baby powder for this because it matches my skin better. 

-Concealer 

As the name suggests this hides stuff like spots blemishes and dark circles. I use the Essence concealer stick. 

-Contour kit 

This is one of the most important parts of masculine make up. This is what you use to create false shadows on your face in order to look like your face is square and dudey. I use this one.  You could also totally use a dark brown eyeshadow. 

-Something to fill in your eyebrows 

AMAB people tend to have unshaped thick brows so filling yours in will achieve this look. I’d also recommend not plucking them. I use black eyeshadow but you can also get eyebrow kits and pencils. Whatever you find suits you. The rule when picking color is to go one shade darker then your head hair. If you have dyed hair like myself you can do whatever you want, I go with black for contrast but you could do brown or blonde or match the color of your hair.

-Stuff you apply this all with! 

I use this set of brushes but you can get brushes both in kits with the stuff you’re getting (ie. eyeshadow, cuntour kits, eyebrow kits, so on). Pennys do sinular and sets of brushes for cheap and they actually decent! 

 Okay now you know what you need but what the hell do you do?! Stuff in italics is optional! 

1. Wash that face boi! 

2.Moisturise, give it a few minutes to absorb into your skin. 

3. Put on your primer! I like to use a makeup brush for this, pretty sure its a blush one. Wait a few minutes for it to absorb. 

4. Put on your foundation, I like to go downwards so I’m brushing all the lil hairs on my face down. Make sure it’s all blended in. 

5. Conceal wherever you wanna. 

6. Grab your contour kit and an angled sculpting brush. It’s pretty much impossible to explain this with words so here is the tourial that thought me. 

7. Fill in your eyebrows as desired. 

8. Put setting spray all over your face and neck. 

And BAM you’re done and looking fine af my man! 

So, that was the very basics but here are some more tutorials that might help you out! 

Masculine Make up Tutorials 

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[transgenderteensurvivalguide]

Jay says: some masculine makeup info for anyone wondering about it!

[pey-arts]

Comm for flameshuken on fr

[dynamicsymmetry]

Good stuff.

[tarysande]

Guys, I edit professionally. This list is legit. Incorporating these suggestions before you hire an editor will save you A LOT of money. Even if you did these and nothing else, you’d see significant overall improvement in your work.

That said, you don’t have to overthink these things when you’re writing a first draft. If you write, “she said angrily” in a first draft, you can always revisit the phrasing in a second draft. I mention this because overthinking style can lead to a loss of momentum, and losing momentum is why so many people never finish a draft. Give yourself permission to write fast, write messy or ugly, and edit your draft into beauty later.

[mageofseven]

Hmmm. Some good points I should keep in mind

[tikkety-tok]

This is what Rasputin would've wanted.

[teaboot]

I feel like I'm being seduced like one of those fancy rainforest birds

[gentletrees]

M a u s 🐭 🌱 🌿

[scribblygryphon]

it’s been a year.

[sammymationsart]

Unus Annus Cryptids in Gravity Falls journal page style ⏳💀

[h3llsea]

a sweet moth with knockoff lolita clothes

[ariafawnart]

Small Shall Be Thy Savior (2018)

Album art for the band POLLEN This one is a tribute anyone who was ever told they were insignificant, or not the right color, not the right gender, not the right PERSON to do what they wanted or make a difference in the world. Growing up and seeking to become an artist, there were of course people telling me I could not accomplish my goals, but I think the biggest insult was being told that I could not make a difference in the world. I saw that the people saying this, often used it as an excuse not to even try. In this piece, hunters have ensnared a forest god. The ultimate fulfillment for their greed. And while the capture of such a creature might seem unfortunate to the average person, no one has bothered to try to free him. No one except the little girl. It took the mind of a child, innocent and full of hope, to have the courage to set the god free. When we relinquish that childish inner spirit, we lose so much potential for greatness. I wanted to paint a reminder that no matter who you are, you CAN make a difference. That even little things greatly impact the world around you. You need only remember that free little spirit within that made you so powerful when you were young, and use it. ~~~

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[cryptid-stimming]

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[hopeysl-deactivated20201028]

Ah but to be a waterdrop with googly eyes

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

This is how slimes and oozes should be animated

[endiness]

Fifty years. Who gets proof of concept like that?

[bummass]

Dove chocolate and Dove soap are two different companies who havent sued each other because they have different trademarks lol

[gaycism]

Damn and I really all this time just thought dove (the soap people) had a meeting one day and were just like “…. we might fuck around and make some chocolate”

[imaseawitch]

Finding out that Dove Soap and Dove Chocolates are different companies has the exact same energy as finding out that Michelin Tires and the Michelin Star Rating System (which rates the finest restaurants in the world) are actually the same company.

[moringmark]

[happifying-things]

um, excuse me

[izhunny]

SOUND ON

[maneth985]

Oh you don’t want the blind open? Then I’m opening two, bitch. What you gonna do about it?

[badasserywomen]

More witcher lasses. School of the wolf and viper. 

[ampervadasz]

Unmute !

[dog-huron-green]

Me cleaning the house in quarantine.

[officialdamonalbarn]

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

[officialdamonalbarn]

THANK YOU

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

somebody please explain

[dykemisspiggy]

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

[caecilius-est-pater]

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

[crtter]

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

[momentofmemory]

ahhhhh it’s my favourite painting on my dash!! strap in folks it’s nerd commentary time!!

so there’s like a billion and one things going on in this painting (because it’s the middle of the renaissance and they got a li’l excited) so let’s break this down.

first off, it was painted smack dab in the middle of the renaissance (1533) which means people-with-money are interested in two primary things:

Self-Knowledge

Knowledge of God

this is important and will explain 90% of everything going on (the remaining 10% is just the painter showing off).

okay, so first off it’s called ambassadors because on either side we have a)a stately, educated man of the world, and b)a religious figure head. who precisely they were was up for debate for like 300 hundred years and isn’t really the point. what is the point is that one of them represents the best of man, and the other the best from God; they therefore are ambassadors of these two facets, and to prove their excellence, we have all the items on the shelves.

on the top shelf we’ve got a celestial globe, a sundial, a quadrant, a torquetum, etc. these are all things focused on learning the up there, the things beyond this world but yet are still scientific that humans are categorizing.

meanwhile on the bottom shelf, we’ve got the awesome things of human learning on earth: a terrestrial globe, a book of mathematics for merchants, a lute, hymnal, etc.

the point of having all these things is to show off the glory of human excellence when it comes to learning and also the artist’s ability to paint details. you’ve got the full trivium of learning going on: grammar, logic, rhetoric; and then also the quadrivium: geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy. everything is balanced.

H O W E V E R.

holbein is also problematizing human learning even as he’s extolling its virtues. for example, we have a broken string on the lute:

the instrument settings on the polyhedral sundial are actually wrong:

and, most importantly, that mother effing skull.

so the skull represents a couple things.

first, perspective was all 👏 the 👏  rage 👏  during the renaissance, and the better you were at it, the higher respect you got. so if you could draw something like this (which a previous commenter is correct, it was hung by a staircase so you would see it as you passed by), you automatically got that sweet sweet street cred. also if you don’t think it’s impressive that he could paint this by hand, you try it because dear lord it’s not fun pls pls professor let us go back to normal still lifes we’ll never complain about onion skins and tomatoes ever again aaaaaugh—

um so second, this is a form of memento mori, or vanitas, meaning “remember you must die” and “vanity” (a reference to ecclesiastes), respectively. the point of painting these was to remind the owner that they are mortal, and that time is short — and that no matter how much human knowledge they accumulated (the shelves), nothing could stop death.

side note: the placement of the skull is also important. the skull is a reference to death, the end of life, so it’s placed on the floor. compare this to michelangelo’s creation of adam, which is a reference to the beginning of life, and is placed on the sistine chapel’s ceiling. 

for life you look up, for death you look down.

AND BECAUSE OF THAT, we get to the last thing this painting is hiding:

a crucifix, tucked away in the top left corner so that you can barely see it, but once you do, you can’t unsee it. because, once again, this is the middle of the renaissance: holbein wants to stress both the importance of human knowledge (plato’s know thyself), and its limits (calvin’s ‘man never has clear knowledge of self until he has seen God’s face’). remember knowledge, remember death, remember christ.

and remember how good of a painter he is he needs more patrons.

anyway i could wax poetic about this painting for literal hours (the one and only time i saw it in person i wound up explicating to random viewers bc i can’t help myself and y’know they were receptive), so yeah. there’s the cliff notes version.

[stephrc79]

How many of you just tilted your computer to make the skull appear?