photo credit: Robert Couse-Baker

For a lot of beginning crossdressers, you are just starting out, not yet part of a community, and you are looking to find information or websites that show you how to teach yourself to put on your own makeup. Part of the joy is just to practice with different looks and styles. Just find pictures of a style and coloring that you like and copy it. Keep on practicing until you get it right. Then try another style.

You have to remember that the way that a woman puts on makeup is very different from how most guys apply it. One good idea is to buy some beauty magazines like Cosmo, Vogue, or even Skin Two and zero in on the very dramatic makeup. That’s what is needed to make guy look like a girl. One thing is beard cover. Another is purplish or greenish color under the eyes. Your face is your canvas and in some sense you are painting a pretty picture. There will be frustrating moments. But you will find that it will be worth it when the first time you do it right and then put on your wig and you are just stunned by your heavenly look.

One helpful thing that you can do is a take photo of your face after you apply the makeup. This will help you to see how others will see you. This way you can make a note of what works and what does not. The typical male make up problem is doing a good job in covering your beard area. To do this you want to use some of the heavier concealer type of make up foundations. Coloring the area with a yellow cast seems to help also.

If you read a lot of posts on forums about crossdressing and drag queen makeup, you will find that a lot of drag queens just get makeovers in at the cosmetic counter at department stores. Sometime even in male mode. And, usually no one says anything! Most of the make up clerks work on commission and they are almost always willing to help out as much as they can. Don’t be too afraid to go to a makeup counter and explain the clerk that you’re a drag queen, and you want to learn how to do your own makeup. If you are honest with her, you may just find that you have a new friend. So, don’t think that you are the only crossdresser who does this. One tip is that the makeup counters are usually the least busy in the early evening. This is the dinner hour when most women are either making dinner or putting on their own makeup to go out for the evening. Even better is Friday and Saturday. These are the best times to go.

Here is a lovely drag queen makeup video tutorial.

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