A month ago I posted this: Men are generally much uglier than women because they don't take care of their appearance and then they complain about women being picky

In it, I was saying this:

Also, I got a secret for you: you can use make-up as a dude. How do you think masculine models have such perfect skin?

There was an incredible amount of comments about how weird or delusional I was being for mentioning that men could use makeup, and how men who use makeup will always look weird and bad.

This, in my humble opinion, was just those people talking with a lot of assurance but without any knowledge on the topic of makeup (like thinking they can always notice makeup, when they probably can't.)

Well, a new study just got out confirming my point

Each man was photographed twice: once without any cosmetics applied and another time with subtle cosmetics applied by a professional makeup artist. Two hundred participants then rated those 40 images on attractiveness.

The male faces were rated as higher in attractiveness when presented wearing makeup, compared to when presented not wearing makeup.

This was true for both male and female raters, and whether analyzing the data using a by-participant or a by-face analysis

Now I know the favorite past time of many, many people on this sub is to keep quoting studies which conclusions they like while disparaging studies which conclusions they don't like. But yeah, sharing this anyway.