I went for a 3h male makeup training session with Lachowski's & Lucky Blue Smith's Makeup Artist

[damiki]

- Brows - my natural brows are literally blonde, so basically not visible at all. Earlier I just dyed it to black, but I still thought I miss density, so I was literally decided full in for the microblading (basically tattoing missing hairs). Of course I wanted it all black Damn, I would ruin my whole image if I wouldn't speak with him. Instead of dyeing or microblading he advised me to do precise pigmentation and hair strokeing using brow definier in blonde colour. At first I was skeptic, but the result was truly stunning. Harmonious, natural, elegant and tidy. Not this black out of place, uncanny thing that I wanted to continue with in the first place, beacuse autistic content I've consumed told me to do it. Muh phenotype, muh high contrast bullshit.

More on this I good long straight eyebrows but in sunlight they are so blonde density is so-so. Is minox+microblading and dying them a bit darker brown color a good idea?

 

[MaartenVaanThomm]

You are looked at like you are nuts/gay if you wear makeup as a man and you aren't appearing on TV or in the movies.

Oh, wow, I haven't knew that the simple fact if there is a camera in front of you or not, magically transforms you into a gay Solid argument bro

what does precise pigmentation mean?

That you are coloring only your brow hairs, not your skin. On skin you precisely draw a hair immitation that is short and thin. Never go for full shadow on your skin, this looks very fake and very female.

More on this I good long straight eyebrows but in sunlight they are so blonde density is so-so. Is minox+microblading and dying them a bit darker brown color a good idea?

Minox - nerver. This shit is dissolved in alcohol, so you rape your skin. Also, after you stop minox, you will lose your gained density. Minox in 2023 is laughable for any purpose.

I wouldn't go for micorblading, you have almost no control over the final result and it is permanent in a very long time (up to 2 years). You could be fucked up by wrong colour, wrong shape, faulty process etc. Too much risk when you can achieve the same using brow pencil and gel/mascara/pen which you can wash off everytime you fuck something up.

Dye is a good solution, but you need to take proper colour. Even if cosmetician will fuck you up with the colour, then it fade away in 2-3 weeks, so chill.

I would go for dye + makeup if I were in your boots.

 

[wastedpotential]

That you are coloring only your brow hairs, not your skin. On skin you precisely draw a hair immitation that is short and thin. Never go for full shadow on your skin, this looks very fake and very female.

Can you please explain what kind of equipment you use for coloring your brow hairs and drawing the hair imitation? I'm a noob when it comes to makeup

 

[pcmaxing]

wearing makeup is ghey

can you explain the eyebrow thing alittle better? No idea what you did

 

[mtcut3plush]

Stfu and get off looksmax

why are you so pressed

 

[BritleArmsBagyPants]

moonshine™ moonshine™

 

[Deleted member 29167]

ffs i hate these retards calling it gay. we're literally on a looksmaxxing forum bro who cares if its "gay" if nobody finds out.

good thread but i would also want a dude to teach me. i dont want girls to end up finding out i use makeup, that'd be social suicide

 

[TheAnomaly]

Let's be real.

In the tiktok era and lookism culture widely spreaded, there is literally NO A SINGLE FUCKING REASON not to boost your appearance using the makeup. You think it's gay? That's your business, no one really cares and study shows girls find more attractive guys boosted with the light makeup vs. no makeup and you almost need to be a walking tiktok filter 24/7 to catch cute girls attention, that's how fucked up the market now is.

My lifelong battle with acne seems to be finally won, so I was looking for a pro male makeupist who can teach me how I could achieve light, natural and undetectable makeup customized strictly for my needs.
I've googled a little and found out one guy. Saw his portfolio and was amazed: he works/worked with Ewan McGregor, Adam Lambert, Francisco Lachowski, Lucky Blue Smith and many more.
I immidiately called him and ask if he could perform a paid workshops/training session just for me in his studio. He was really happy and enthusiastic to do that, I got an email and we proceeded with the details. It cost me approx. 250 EUR.

My impression is huuuuge:

• It showed me the direction where I should go with my general looksmaxing journey and it was lifechanging beacuse some of my preferred future choices turned out to be totally wrong speaking about boosting the looks (and I made them mostly using knowledge of this site!). He worked with world class models (Chico/Lucky) for companies like Chanel, Gucci, Max Factor, Nivea, Oriflame, Avon, Sephora, Adidas, Netflix, Samsung, Tommy Hilfiger and definitely his advices were 100% on point regarded to my plans and I would be looking fake, gay and uncanny if he wasn't there to stop me.
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• It showed me how much the fuck the skin is important for the general appearance. It's a total numer one without any doubt. Hair is the second place.
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• Single even out the tone/colour, proper matte-to-glow ratio and blurring the skin texture makes a FOOKIN day and night difference.
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• With this top notch makeup on me I look 9-8 years (YEARS) younger. I look young, I look fresh, I look healthy and relaxed.
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• The effect will be even larger if you don't have skin texture (atrophic acne scarring), but even with scars effect is totally worth it.
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• The most difficult part is choosing the right: skincare products that you put under the makeup and makeup products itself.
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• It takes time to master it, but the learning curve is not that steep when you were coached by the top of top professionalist.

So, a couple of tips from me after the workshop and doing full routine few times:

1. Skincare is still the most important step. It's fundamental and it defines how good makeup you can do. It's no point doing makeup if you have active acne, all face covered in red bumps, whiteheads and in general having a pizza face.

2. Your makeup should ENHANCE, I repeat: ENHANCE your natural traits, NOT ALTER them. Two perfect examples on me:
- Skin tone - I am very pale and always wanted to darken my skin tone, get this trendy tanned look. In general due to lifelong acne problems and post inflammation my face skin tone is still rosy, red with orange/yellow undertones while my neck, hands, ears are just naturally pale - Fitzpatrick 1. I could blend my make up to appear Fitzpatrick IV, but it would look fake on me unless I will cover my whole body with the bronzer. But then I will look like a british chav So it was crucial for me to accept my natural skin tone and blend make up up from the body to the face making no contrast at all. At first, I thought it is way to pale/faint. But turned out it was just my brain impression beacuse I was soooo used to my "carrot-ish" face. My family and people around were positively impressed. So if you are FP 2-4 then I am jelaous, but if not, I recommend just to accept your trait and make it individual and "aesthetic". He also enhanced all my freckles (I'm ginger with wavy hair with highlights done and it just compose so fuckin aesthetic).

And no, melanotan is just not a longterm solution I will not be picking this up.

- Brows - my natural brows are literally blonde, so basically not visible at all. Earlier I just dyed it to black, but I still thought I miss density, so I was literally decided full in for the microblading (basically tattoing missing hairs). Of course I wanted it all black Damn, I would ruin my whole image if I wouldn't speak with him. Instead of dyeing or microblading he advised me to do precise pigmentation and hair strokeing using brow definier in blonde colour. At first I was skeptic, but the result was truly stunning. Harmonious, natural, elegant and tidy. Not this black out of place, uncanny thing that I wanted to continue with in the first place, beacuse autistic content I've consumed told me to do it. Muh phenotype, muh high contrast bullshit.

Combining this and right makeup tone made my look very pretty boish, yet masculine and natural instead of uncanny, bronzed 2012 british chav. That's why you need to listen me and filter out many autistic crap from this site.

3. If you have oily skin with large (but clean!) pores and some texture from scars you will need:

- Low molecule HA serum
- 'standard' high quality moisturizer
- mattifying moisturizer
- light, watery SPF
- mattifying primer
- foundation (ideally two types to mix)
- concealer
- translucent, matte setting powder
- brow definier in a pencil with triangular end
- translucent brow gel
- makeup sponge aka beauty blender
- fluffy brush for powder
- smaller brush for foundation application
- matte, translucent lip balm
- I also have freckles pen

4. Right moisturizing is a key to avoid dry flakes wearing makeup long hours. Low molecule HA serum+ right moisturizer is a must.

5. As a male you need to manage the glow and matte effects on your skin. Going either full glow or full matte will give you fake unnatural look. More over shine will enhance your texture problems. Full matte will give you old lady look on the other hand.
So, in short, you should keep in matte the T-area: lower cheeks, nasolabial folds, nose, forehead, chin and neck. Glow should be kept on high cheeks (especially on zygos), undereyes and small temple area.
To keep areas matte you need mattyfying moisturizer and mattyfiyng primer. For glowy areas use your standard moisturizer and skip primer.

6. It's harder but I recommend to start it right away: use two types of foundations: one should be lighter and full matte, second one should be darker and with satin finish. You mix those two to get the perfect match for your skintone and best balance between matte and glow for the foundation.

7. It starts to give final look after 30 mins when your skin fully absorbs all the layers and it starts cooperating with your skin. It becomes invisible from now on and magic happens.

8. High hygiene of the face, tools, products is a must. Take this seriously.

9. Double cleansing, moisturizing, retinol and exfoliation is a must to keep your base skin appearance as good as possible to sqeeze out even more boost from the makeup.

10. My bone performance is good enough to have hollow cheeks since I hit low BF%, but it is not really recommended to go into contouring world for me. Try contouring if you are FP 2-4.

11. Safety razor shave everytime before doing makeup. You need to be as smooth as possible to get best absorption and invisible look.

12. Always do makeup in daylight in front of the window or buy a light lamp with 4500-5500K light temperature

13. Order: 2xcleanse, HA, moisturizers, SPF, moisturizers, primer, foundation, concealer, powder, lip balm, brow brush, brow strokeing with pencil, brow gel, freckles

14. Remove with cosmetic tissues/flakes with miceral water till no stained, then double cleanse your skin


GTFIH and start experimenting.

Impressive. What did you type in for your search? I’d be up for a similar consult. But I’m here in Cali.

 

[Icon]

I enjoyed reading this, good post. Saved it.

I do wear make up, but don't like to over do it as some pointed out it would be a pain in the ass to go through the same routine daily. I use concealer for my dark baggs since I am self employed and work on my computer a lot. So I don't care if I hide something that I wouldn't get if I were to be cavemen. But using a bit more when you go out or for a special occasion would be nice.

Skin is definitely extremely underrated though, I keep saying this. No one gets it how underrated it is. Even without using any make-up if you have god levels collagen your skin will look like a real life beauty filter in the sun. And these filters can impact your perceived attractiveness immensely. It also affects how light bounces of your face and can in subtle ways manipulate the shape of your face, after all vision is just a the interaction of shapes and light. Definitely take care of skin boyos

 

[anoncell]

why are you so pressed

Cuz if you’re not here to looksmax go somewhere else

 

[mtcut3plush]

why are u so pressed nigga ?

Cuz if you’re not here to looksmax go somewhere else

looksmaxx not faggotmaxx you stupid inbred

 

[vulcan_]

you are a girl. You are driving a

Every female around is artificially increasing their smv by clothes, makeup, hairstyle, boots, every normie around is heightfrauding with air forces, every normie is hiding their skull flaws with fluffy hairstyle... Etc. etc. I could repeat those examples for the end of the world. You need to understand that EVERYBODY IS FRAUDING and therefore you should do it too. Otherwise you are staying behind the pack. Nobody really cares if it is artificial as long as you simply look good with it.



You guys really have some problem with self-confidence and courage. All your fears wearing makeup is this childish worry that somebody will laugh you out. Just be mature and go you own way, those people will mean nothing in your life.

The honest answer is that - yes, probably more cautious, clever women could recognise that you are wearing makeup. Some will notice, some will not. In case of men, 99% will not notice as they have no idea about it. God, men in general in 99-100% are going to get caught for "no makeup makeup" on girls thinking they are natural lol.

But the point is that if she notice and you stand up, say "yes, yes I am" then you show your strength. If she make fun of you then call her out that she is childish, beacuse since when putting coloured cream on your face is something wrong? She do it as well. "Ohhh, but I am a girl <kardashian face>". "I don't know if you are a girl. You are driving a car/going to work/going to college/going gym, and those are men activities... " and laugh her off.

But in most cases she will be enthusiastic about this beacuse bitches know like no any other that if something is making you look better then you should use it without any fucking word.

What products you reccomending

 

[MaartenVaanThomm]

What products you reccomending

I've gone to the top professional beacuse it isn't something you can do for yourself out of the street with no experience. Every skin has different texturisation, oilyness, colour tone, undertones etc. You can blind buy products but it's a waste of time and money. Go to the professional and they will guide you which product is best for you.

I am using MAC Studio Radiance and Makeup4Ever HQ Skin foundations, NARS concealer, Irena Eris setting powder, Anastasia Beverly Hills brow pencil and NYX brow gel.

 

[vulcan_]

I've gone to the top professional beacuse it isn't something you can do for yourself out of the street with no experience. Every skin has different texturisation, oilyness, colour tone, undertones etc. You can blind buy products but it's a waste of time and money. Go to the professional and they will guide you which product is best for you.

I am using MAC Studio Radiance and Makeup4Ever HQ Skin foundations, NARS concealer, Irena Eris setting powder, Anastasia Beverly Hills brow pencil and NYX brow gel.

I talked with the guy and he said the same thing, will be doing

 

[Mezo103]

Bro makeup is just too non-NT ppl will eventually find out in ur social circle and its gonna be social suicide

 

[MaartenVaanThomm]

Bro makeup is just too non-NT ppl will eventually find out in ur social circle and its gonna be social suicide

I am on a new job now since like 2 months, wearing makeup everyday to the office and even the biggest office Jock and other 'cool' and 'masculine' alphas didn't noticed a shit If this would be noticeable I would hear some comments here and there from them, I am sure. But men don't know shit about makeup, so don't worry. If you ask them to show you a nice girl without makeup, they will show you a pic of a girl in makeup