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[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

They just cannot join a female space and not try to center the entire thing on themselves, can they?

I agree that these narcissists always have the center themselves everywhere they go, but I don't understand how makeup subs are female spaces. Long before the outbreak of today's transmania, males were very prominent in the makeup field as makeup artists, inventors, manufacturers and marketers as well as wearers/consumers.

The modern-day makeup industry was started by a Polish man named Maksymilian Faktorowicz (1877 – 1938), also known as Max Factor Sr. From Wikipedia:

As a founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, he largely developed the modern cosmetics industry in the United States and popularised the term "make-up" in noun form based on the verb.

He is also known for doing makeovers for starlets and giving them their signature looks; his most iconic works include Jean Harlow's platinum hair, Clara Bow's bob, Lucille Ball's false lashes and red curls, and Joan Crawford's "Hunter's Bow", or overdrawn lips.

There were and are zillions of other guys like this. Such as the makeup artist and photographer François Nars who started NARS Cosmetics in 1994.

[–]VioletRemi 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Nothing strange in fact that industry aimed on controlling how women must look is held by and "invented" by men.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Back in the 1920s when these modern fashions took off, mostly because of cinema, very few women had professional careers so men did many jobs we now think if as women's.

The hairdressing industry is also held and "invented" by men for much the same reason.

I notice that many rad fems who drag others for wearing makeup themselves colour and style their hair. What's the difference?