http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1039275/Introducing-Guy-liner-Manscara--new-metrosexual-make-just-men.html
Introducing Guy-liner and Manscara - the new metrosexual make-up just for men
By Dan Newling
In an increasingly metrosexual world, perhaps it was just a matter of time.
But yesterday a high street store announced that it would start stocking makeup designed just for men.
'Guy-liner' and 'Manscara' to enhance the eyes of the male in your life, will appear in Superdrug this week.
Taxi Man
Joining the ranks: Superdrug is launching Taxi Man the first high street male cosmetics range
Yesterday, the company's director of trading Jeff Wemyss insisted that its cosmetics - branded Taxi Man - are not just for transvestites.
He said: "These days you can be macho and wear make-up. If you look at people like Russell Brand and Robbie Williams, they both wear make-up and they are both very red-blooded men.
'Men are more obsessed with their appearance than ever before. There is no longer any pain in being seen to be vain.'
He added: 'We believe there is a real market for cosmetic products. The majority of our customers are women and we believe that these products will be bought by women for their partners, as well as by men themselves.'
Russell Brand
Make-up role model: Russell Brand is famous for wearing eye-liner and mascara
The cosmetics' creator Peter Kelly said: 'We've developed essentials any guy would borrow from his other half.
'It's about subtle make-up rather than wanting to create the drag queen look.'
A spokesman for the company said that 'Guy-liner' pencil is chunkier than the female equivalent and therefore easier for men, who have bigger hands, to use.
However, it was less clear how the 'Manscara' differs from normal mascara.
In recent years the men's grooming market has boomed as men become increasingly less ashamed of been seen to take care of their appearance.
According to business analysts Mintel, the UK market is worth £700m annually and is predicted to grow to £820m next year.
Until now most of the business has been for products such as shave cream, hair care products and moisturisers.
Yesterday Lucy Mines, the Daily Mail's beauty editor, cast doubt on whether the new men-only range of make-up would catch on with British men.
She said: 'I can imagine how some of the products, such as concealer, may be popular with men who want to hide blemishes.
'But I would have thought it unlikely that straight men would want to wear eye-liner or mascara. When I asked my male friends whether they would wear it, they all replied with a very firm "no."
'However, a few years ago you would not have found many men admitting to wearing fake tan and now that is something that you see quite a lot.
'But I think it will be a very long time indeed before it is generally accepted practice for men to put on some eye-liner before coming into the office.'
[roll]
New product: "Package-ing Tape" for concealing unwanted bulges.
Quote from: ODrides on July 28, 2008, 09:26:47 PM
New product: "Package-ing Tape" for concealing unwanted bulges.
Those bulges are out of style? Should I stop stuffing a sock down my pants?
Just makes it easier to locate douchebags to laugh at... [popcorn]
Quote from: someguy on July 28, 2008, 09:30:32 PM
Those bulges are out of style? Should I stop stuffing a sock down my pants?
Slabs of Bacon is still appropriate though.
well...
is this... uh, do men think....
yup. i've got nothin'. [roll]
QuoteYesterday, the company's director of trading Jeff Wemyss insisted that its cosmetics - branded Taxi Man - are not just for transvestites.
When you have to make a statement like this, you know you're going to have a hard time selling your product.
Im sorry but if this is the dude they are using as a "role model" and he is "famous" for wearing eye make up.... NO THANKS
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/07/28/article-1039275-00E000E900000578-760_233x423.jpg)
he is F@#$ing creepy looking!
Quote from: Vindingo on July 28, 2008, 10:27:41 PM
he is F@#$ing creepy looking!
I'm told this crap started in New Jersey.
Has he never heard of combs, or is he cultivating a horde of Tribbles on his head?
Things like these are what make me miss Venezuela the most. This shit just wouldn't fly down there, anybody using that would not make it three blocks out of their house...
Quote from: Vindingo on July 28, 2008, 10:26:44 PM
Im sorry but if this is the dude they are using as a "role model" and he is "famous" for wearing eye make up.... NO THANKS
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/07/28/article-1039275-00E000E900000578-760_233x423.jpg)
Whoa..wait a second!
If you put sunglasses on that guy's head..he looks exactly like
Serpico!
[cheeky]
too much teasing at the back......Bad Stylist! Bad Stylist!
i don't know. there are time when i jsut don't feel pretty enough. maybe makeup would help me feel better about myself.
and pick up guys. ;)
btw, you have to get IZ's recipie for facial scrub. it leaves your skin feeling so soft and smooth. :-*
I hate to admit it, but I had eyeliner on for Halloween last year ( I went as Chris Crocker, blond wig and all) and it worked. I had women in orbit around me all night. They all commented on it.
Just sayin'
Quote from: KnightofNi on July 29, 2008, 07:53:10 AM
you have to get IZ's recipie for facial scrub.
Whatever "fountain-of-youth". Not all of us are born with beautifully-smooth, pasty-white skin like yours.
Do you use your own
ginger-extract on that?
:-*
Personally, my tastes in men wearing make-up lean a little more towards Little Richard.
Wop Bam a Du Wop, Be Wop Bam Boo!
Quote from: Grio on July 29, 2008, 08:50:32 AM
Personally, my tastes in men wearing make-up lean a little more towards Little Richard.
Wop Bam a Du Wop, Be Wop Bam Boo!
So like....really really old?
So does this mean, in the world of Rock 'n Roll, that the once poplar look of this: (http://thegoat.backcountry.com/blog/files/2008/05/poison-cat.jpg) is going to go in the opposit direction, like this: (http://lh4.ggpht.com/__w-15JuPMpY/Rs3Otr_M7SI/AAAAAAAAA7A/mlYWtQFbl8Y/7104015014%5B1%5D.jpg)
I'm growing a beard...that's it! It's the Mountain Man look for me from now on.
Quote from: lauramonster on July 29, 2008, 07:50:45 AM
too much teasing at the back......Bad Stylist! Bad Stylist!
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Bad Hair! Bad Hair!
Quote from: Monsterlover on July 29, 2008, 08:04:00 AM
I hate to admit it, but I had eyeliner on for Halloween last year ( I went as Chris Crocker, blond wig and all) and it worked. I had women in orbit around me all night. They all commented on it.
Just sayin'
i'm curious to know what those comments were... YES... i'm nosey ;D
Emo and goth boys around the world can now rejoice because they won't have to steal their girlfriend's eyeliner.
Quote from: Vindingo on July 28, 2008, 10:26:44 PM
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/07/28/article-1039275-00E000E900000578-760_233x423.jpg)
Is this the band guy from Forgetting Sara Marshall?
Quote from: IZ on July 29, 2008, 08:40:46 AM
Whatever "fountain-of-youth". Not all of us are born with beautifully-smooth, pasty-white skin like yours.
Do you use your own ginger-extract on that?
:-*
we all know you are the "metro" one around these parts. [cheeky]
Quote from: Monsterlover on July 29, 2008, 08:04:00 AM
I hate to admit it, but I had eyeliner on for Halloween last year ( I went as Chris Crocker, blond wig and all) and it worked. I had women in orbit around me all night. They all commented on it.
Just sayin'
back before i realized i should be backstage being a techie, we would go out after shows (theater) and i could never get all the makeup off. there were always plenty of comments. not all of them were favorable though.
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e185/vandals404/Social%20Distortion/SocialDistortion2.jpg)
do you think they will come out with mens lotion?
this guy wore make up too
(http://www.tonyskansascity.com/tonyskansascity/bufallobobscreenshotsotl.jpg)
Quote from: someguy on July 28, 2008, 10:29:28 PM
I'm told this crap started in New Jersey.
That was the chicks teasing their hair...
I think it's pretty safe to say that this dude lives in LA or the Village
Quote from: DuCaTiNi on July 29, 2008, 10:13:05 AM
i'm curious to know what those comments were... YES... i'm nosey ;D
I can't remember them all, exactly. I was married at the time so it didn't really matter but had things been different, I know I'd have gotten laid.
[evil]
Quote from: Monsterlover on July 29, 2008, 11:11:49 AM
I can't remember them all, exactly. I was married at the time so it didn't really matter but had things been different, I know I'd have gotten laid.
[evil]
so you're looking forward to halloween ;D j/k ;)
FTR......first guy to ask me "if his makeup is ok" gets backhanded pregnant dog slap....
Quote from: someguy on July 29, 2008, 11:26:10 AM
FTR......first guy to ask me "if his makeup is ok" gets backhanded pregnant dog slap....
bahahahahaha [laugh]
I don't think Glam rock counts as a violation of all things homo-phobic. Those dudes get all the chicks (IZ_ yellow birds of course) they want and then some.
I try to keep an open mind and have even been enlightened to the wisdom of a post shave cream or skin scrub/lotion- it just feels good, especially after spreading drain rock all day, dropping trees and cutting them up, and a variety of otherwise excessively "manly" type activities.
However, I can't see how any guy could go to the cash register for genuine man "make up", with his head held any higher than when he had been sent to scour the ladies only aisle for just the right product(s) for his mom. Maybe I'm just not ready for the natural order paradigm to be bent this far. [cheeky]
Quote from: IZ on July 29, 2008, 07:39:03 AM
Whoa..wait a second!
If you put sunglasses on that guy's head..he looks exactly like Serpico!
[cheeky]
was thinking the exact same thing adam...
Quote from: Ash on July 29, 2008, 01:46:49 PM
was thinking the exact same thing adam...
[laugh]
LOL..Vin's going to change his avatar now!! ;)
BTW..that guy was on Graham Norton on BBCA a few months back. I don't know if he's a rocker or a comedian or what but he reminded me of the kid from
H.R. Puffinstuff.
wasnt that the guy in forgetting sarah marshall?
Quote from: IZ on July 29, 2008, 01:50:15 PM
[laugh]
LOL..Vin's going to change his avatar now!! ;)
<------------- :'(
Reminds me of the Manzeir.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqsRB9kEYEU