tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317328489765987306.post8838571031087848362..comments2024-02-21T02:24:53.174-08:00Comments on LA 'n' LA: Metro-SexualsLeahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05702536871190716658noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317328489765987306.post-63730627533156165962016-05-06T13:16:02.300-07:002016-05-06T13:16:02.300-07:00Try to see the "metrosexual" label the s...Try to see the "metrosexual" label the same way as you can pull off your awesome "butch" hat :).<br />I get the bad vibes the term can get as it might make sound the man in question as immature and conformist, that, striving for perfection, trying to achieve mass media launched beauty models.<br />He obsess over tan and is a culturist.<br />It has nothing to do with "crossdressing" or going for clothes and modes of expression regarded as typically feminine, if not marginally, but often tastelessly, like using cleavage or shaving just to show off their muscles, but without elegance.<br />Ok that is one of the many variation of the "MS" concept, the most basic and masscult one.<br />I personally think of it as a different mode of artistical expression to style, which of course unavoidably on styles typically regarded as feminine, hence "crossdressing", conventionally speaking, though adapted to a male body, but just because the style range of males only extends from purely functional and practical to unisex chic, but most of it is regarded as unisex. So whateve doesn't particularly highlight the body or such, is unisex. Of course now the unisex chic is slowly expanding in potentially more edgy clothes allowing lot of experimentation, but I already go for wide necks or boat neck which can hint either shoulder, sometimes overlaying a tank top :).<br />So if I'm metrosexual, I'm atypical, as being into a reformed or refined alternative scene style with glam elements, so yeah, exactly, a bit of eye makeup including eyeliner and eyeshadow, slightly defined eyebrows. The ever present leather jacket, black nails and, sometimes, boots.<br />As for tan, I neither strive for tan nor paleness. And I'm straight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com