Posted on 10/20/2016 8:51:06 AM PDT by rey
One of the most compelling people on Instagram these days is a guy who matches his makeup to his snacks.
His name is Tim Owens, but online he goes by Skelotim, and he is a bald, perma-stubbled man who knows his way around a contour kit. Last week, he posted a video of himself applying dark purple eye shadow, sky-blue eyeliner, fluttery fake lashes and a bold grape lipstick. Then, after shooting the camera a succession of saucy glances, he raised a packaged Smuckers Uncrustables peanut-butter-and-grape-jelly sandwich, revealing his culinary inspiration for the days look.
Watching Skelotim at work is mesmerizing. He slickly sets his makeup routine to pounding pop music, transforming from a regular dude into a sparkling vision of the fabulously strange. Its just like Cinderella twirling around and around until she finds herself wearing a poufy blue ballgown, except Skelotim is changing into a Flamin Hot Cheeto. In the age of the selfie, what more appropriate canvas is there for an internet artist than his own face?
Skelotim is one of a handful of young men who have primped and preened their way into the female-centric world of Instagram and YouTube makeup artistry. Angel Merino (1.2 million Instagram followers), a celebrity makeup artist, rocks glam, high-gloss looks and possesses an almost supernatural grasp of flattering camera angles. Jake-Jamie Ward, YouTubes 24-year-old Beauty Boy, favors a more naturalistic approach; his popular video primer Makeup for Men includes tips on blemish concealing and beard navigation. And Patrick Starrr films elaborate makeup tutorials for YouTube (where he has 1.7 million subscribers), then heads over to Instagram to post pictures of himself frolicking in Las Vegas and Bora Bora.
No matter what these guys are doing, it feels a little bit electric. A man celebrating himself in makeup is subversive.
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One of my favorite pictures from my Dad’s copy of “LIFE’S Picture History of WW2”.
Thank you for posting that. I grew up having a huge crush on that MAN.
You forgot Twisted Sister. What about Boy George? We can certainly say the same of effete artists over the ages who did great artistic things.
Is there a difference? The groups you mention certainly brings it mainstream and legitimizes it. I would not group KISS, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Bowie, into the mentally healthy group of individuals we wish to emulate, yet their popularity encourages emulation. I would also suggest that while the groups you cite may be to your tastes or that they may have produced a catchy tune or two, they are hardly artists in any real sense of the word. They are merely part of a perverse pop culture whose work will be forgotten. Why do these alleged artists dress in this manner? Why can they not stand on talent alone? Perhaps they have none? Just like the lost souls in this article; to create your own person of real character and true talent is a difficult thing to do. It is much easier to superficially affect the facade and scream, “Look at me!” As C.S. Lewis would say, “Men without chests.”
That is so damned depressing for society in general, never mind the military.
With the feminization and open homosexuality being force fed the military, what is going to happen when we go against a real foe, and our troops have to endure conditions like Peliliu, The Ardennes, or Chosin engaging in hand-to-hand combat in fighting holes?
I swear, I have a bad feeling about this. It isn’t going to end well, and the scum who forced it on us are going to be unavailable for comment or retribution.
Who is “we?”— not ME.
Steve McQueen!
Those were the days, my FRiend.
I don’t know much about him, but he didn’t seem the same as the Hollywood types we see today.
Interesting reply and interesting challenges you face. Keep me in mind when you post about what you do, private replies are most welcome.
I am homeschooling a child trying to avoid much of what challenges you in your position. I often think, if we spent half as much time on true education instead of these alleged “social issues” we would produce some very intelligent students.
I think the “gender” issues will leech into sports ruining both high school and eventually collegiate sports programs. I have big reservations about these sports programs to begin with, though we take advantage of them.
I think a lot of this nonsense comes from growing up in a home with no strong male role model.
Or, quite often, any men at all.
I have worked with so many young adult men who grew up in a house with no male presence. They whine about every little thing that happens they don’t like. They seem to have the expectation that everyone will feel sorry for them or tell them how right they are to be upset. You can tell their complaining always worked with Mommy and Grandma and Aunt So-and-So. It’s really unattractive on a strong healthy young man.
That man has a giant rectal prolapse where a mouth and lips should be.
True misogyny - women aren’t beautiful or good enough to set the standard for women’s beauty.
Now seen with men being used to hawk women’s cosmetics.
Previously seen with transgenders (men in dresses) as the female standard of beauty. Androgynous model Andrej Pejic made headlines for starring in a bridal show, but it isn’t the only one.
Stealthily seen for years where homosexual fashion gurus said women had to be starved into looking like prepubescent boys to be considered beautiful.
In that particular photo she doesn't look bad.However,it's difficult to believe that her *** or her **** are naturally that big.And as for traveling with $10 million of jewelry...yikes! However,it's easy to believe that she's connected to the effort to get a guy who just about beheaded the mother of his children off the hook.
Thank you...I did not know Steve McQueen served...
Another interesting thing most people don’t know, Jimmy Stewart, as a Brigadier General flew in a combat mission in Vietnam.
Young men circa 2016
“’Beauty boys’ undo makeup gender stereotypes”
No, they don’t.
WOW!
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