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Pictures of gay men wearing makeup2/10/2024 The market for male cosmetics products is growing and evolving and this study serves as an initial step in understanding the effect of makeup on the perceptions of male faces. Following work on female faces, future research should examine the effect of makeup on several other traits in male faces. These results provide the first empirical evidence that makeup increases attractiveness in male faces. This was true for both male and female raters, and whether analyzing the data using a by-participant or a by-face analysis. Before Bowie sang I’m an alligator, he learned the art of kabuki makeup from Japan’s most famous onnagata. The male faces were rated as higher in attractiveness when presented wearing makeup, compared to when presented not wearing makeup. Of course, glam rock was not the first case of men wearing makeup, either. Two hundred participants then rated those 40 images on attractiveness. Each man was photographed twice: once without any cosmetics applied and another time with subtle cosmetics applied by a professional makeup artist. Twenty men were photographed facing forward, under constant camera and lighting conditions, with neutral expressions, and closed mouths. We therefore sought to examine whether the positive effect of makeup on attractiveness can be extended to male faces. Makeup is commonly attributed with increasing attractiveness in female faces, but this effect has not been investigated in male faces.
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