I have been trying to find a natural looking makeup for myself and every singe one looks like shit I followed tutorial and and i look awful I tried different colours and it looks shit but every time I watch a video on how to do makeup it looks fucking perfect on them ahh and why does my makeup look so crackly it fucking huts to see I and when I do end up getting it right it highlights my masculinity features why. im starting to break because of it ðŸ˜
Because those women making popular tutorials are makeup hobbyists.
It’s like asking why all the kids who practice music regularly are so good at playing music. Well—they practice.
I’ve met PLENTY of cis women with terrible makeup. They make tutorials too but they probably aren’t coming up because they’re not as good as the other girls.
Keep practicing and you’ll get it!
Yes and not only do they practice, many cis women have been practicing with makeup since they were in their early teens if not younger. Many trans women haven't had that same opportunity: when I started learning makeup it was very obvious that a lot of women my age had a couple of decades' experience on me!
Practice is one key, and giving yourself grace to not be perfect at something that you've only just started learning is the other.
I knew girls who were under age 10 who'd started messing around with makeup. A lot of parents discouraged it, because wearing makeup was a sign of loose morals in any girl under age 16, but they did it anyway.
OP is 21, which for women is an eternity not doing anything with makeup, unless they are from a very conservative religious background.
Also, I totally love your flair.
Or were a bit of a tomboy growing up, which annoyingly my older sister was and so couldn't give me any tips when I transitioned.
Yeah, but the girls I was friends with were wearing makeup by 12 years old. If most of your friends when you were a pre-teen were girls, you could have picked it up from them.
Most of what people need are just the basics. I have age spots, because I'm old, and I barely care about concealer anymore. I've lost a lot of my eyelashes to old age, so I don't even bother with mascara or eyeliner. I should up my eyebrow pencil game since my eyebrows are also going bald, but I'd have to buy eyebrow scissors, which I'm too lazy to do anyway.
10+ years of practice
I think these days girls are starting with makeup before they are 10.
If my experience buying Christmas gifts for my niece is anything to go by, these days girls younger than 10 are expected to wear makeup, have a skincare routine, and run a side-hustle as a manicurist
At least kids are expected to have jobs again, like when I was a child and I had to 80 hours a week in a coal mine just to eat a scrap of bread.
I’m too old to have walked to school uphill, in the rain, with a headwind, both ways.
Well, yeah, but I grew up in the 90s and this is nothing new, hell my siblings and I would put on makeup for fun at age 7 (though we weren't allowed to go to school with it)
Considering a lot of influencers are in their early 20s posting makeup vids online, that gives them 10+ years of practice
I remember middle school girls - 12 to 14 for people outside the US - being utterly scandalous for wearing (gasp!) lip gloss to school.
Times have changed.
A 30 year old woman, if she spends 10 minutes on makeup each day, has spent about 1200 hours doing makeup in her life.
That's a lot of practice.
Because they have been practicing all their lives with makeup it becomes second nature while is trans girls have to learn from scratch from whenever we start transitioning from
Practice, practice, practice!
Time and practice girliepop. I’ve been doing my makeup since I came out 5 years ago. Just gotta keep at it
I’d recommend looking for tutorials by other trans people. Not only might it feel a little more comfortable since they are coming from a similar learning process- there also specific tips for de-emphasizing features that you won’t get watching cis girls.Â
I wouldn't learn makeup from someone who's trans unless it's Nikki Tutorials, who was established as a makeup expert before she was blackmailed into coming out.
I wore makeup a lot in my 30s and 40s because I had a job where looking good was important. When I got into my late 40s and 50s, I had stopped wearing makeup. I'm in my 60s and I'm out of practice for the more advanced forms of shape-shifting. One gets good at doing makeup by doing makeup.
A lot of makeup tricks which are learned watching trans tutorials only work for still photography. I have naturally prominent cheekbones, but the trans tutorials for faking cheekbones look very unnatural in real life, which is why cis women aren't going on about faking having checkbones, and instead show how to work with not having prominent cheekbones or full lips. I still have full lips. I very, very carefully draw my lip liner, then apply lipstick because I can just paint what I've got. I've seen more horrible advice about applying lipstick from trans content creators than I can count.
I was 10 years post-transition when YouTube was created. Let's just say the trans content creators I saw on YouTube, or on various other places, were just horrible for real life.
I can’t say I know much out the makeup tutorial scene , but with so much out there I have to imagine there are at least a few trans creators who are just… good at makeup ? Especially if it’s for a day-to-day kinda look…Â
I'm sure there are some, but the majority of what I've seen from trans creators, whenever I've looked, is more targeted for still photography.
Like, contouring looks very unnatural from the side. It looks even more unnatural if the light isn't cooperating.
Practice. They start with like 12 and do it almost every day.Â
It's practice. I was looking back at some photos I took about eight years ago, when makeup was new to me. It's truly a mess! I'm no expert now, but I'm more familiar with what works with my face and I can make myself look presentable without too much effort.
As other say, many cis women have been practising since they were early teens. Additonally, many cis women would get good at one look, or using one set of products and just do that. So they are good at that look
Not all cis women do lol. I lot of cis women aren't great at makeup either. Some are even bad... or dare I say... terrible at makeup. The ones doing tutorials and shit are obviously good at it, like, you aren't gonna make a tutorial video about something you're bad at (well... I mean you might, but if it got popular, it would likely be about laughing at you being bad, not because its helpful).
Women who are good at makeup, have been doing it for years, possibly decades. Like a lot cis women start learning makeup "seriously" in their teens, and may have even "played" with makeup as kids or pre-teens. They've been doing it a long ass time for the most part. Its a learned skill, you don't just start good at it, it takes practice.
I've had cis women ask me how to do makeup after I post pics because they think I'm better than they are. The secret is... I started doing makeup when I was 13, I'm now 40. I've had 27 years of practice, learning different techniques, and keeping up on the latest trends. Its something I love, its an artform, its fun for me, which makes it "easy" because I enjoy it... but I wasn't always good at it. I spent years hiding alone in the bathroom "playing" with it as a tween/teen, and lemme tell you, it often looked horrible.
But yea... that's the unfortunate truth of it. The secret is practice. If you find a way to enjoy yourself, don't judge yourself, laugh about your mistakes... it makes learning easier as well.
Not sure about the rest of you but probably because, they had moms teach them and have been doing it longer 😜
Why do Warhammer content creators make edge highlighting look so easy? That's the real crime.
I'm guessing it's largely because they've had more time to practice. They were able to spend time playing with makeup in their teenage years, and they got good at it.
Meanwhile, I'm here in my 40s, and eyeliner is impossible.
well firstly take the advice of the other people here, but secondly, if you want to look natural dont use foundation. thats what I do anyway, I happen to like both wearing foundation and not, but its also one of the most stressful for me as an autistic person, like i only wear foundation if i have a LOT of energy. ANYWAY back to the point, if you want to look natural.. BE SIMPLE, dont do a bunch of crazy complicated stuff, just wear blush, mascara, little bit of eyeliner, and lip liner/lipstick
Cameras aren't eyeballs. You're looking from inches away, they're set further back and have filters
You should find guides made by trans women. There are specific steps in contouring/highlighting that are flipped compared to how cis women usually do it.
Experiment. Every keeps saying practice, but first you need to figure out what shapes and shades match your face.
Following tutorials will always lead to disappointing results if you don’t adapt the colors and techniques to your face.
Long before realizing I was trans, I would wear makeup (haven't figured out a way to incorporate it in my more current looks). I actually got pretty good at liquid liner (did that winged eyeliner look) from spending a lot of time practicing it and investing in makeup that worked with my skin type. As well as, at one point I did one of those one on ones from Sephora and it helped give me an idea on what skills I needed to work more on.
Just like with anything else, it always looks easy when you watch someone who knows what they're doing lol
Cis women had to practice and fail a ton, too. Just that they did that during their teenage years when everyone is cringe and they could spend hours upon hours in their rooms practising. I know more cis women who can't do shit make-up wise than I know ones who do.
If your make-up looks crackly, you either used too much of it or you haven't cleaned your face properly (including exfoliating). Or both. Also, don't get fooled by filters and such. It's normal to see pores even through make-up.