It feels like Something to me that cis women doing makeup tutorials always use gender neutral phrases like “this just helps me feel more like a human being” or “it just makes me feel like I look more like a contributing member of society” while trans women doing makeup tutorials generally just say “It makes me feel more like a woman—I mean I already am one but you know just more feminine less dysphoric and all that”
They’re ultimately getting at exactly the same feelings aren’t they? The cis women in these videos are saying they feel inhuman until they get dolled up by doing an elaborate painting on their face. They often won’t even show an actual bare face without makeup at the beginning and if they do they bemoan how terrible they feel looking at their own face without makeup. It’s dysphoria! They see themselves in the mirror and feel so gross they don’t even feel like a human being equal to other people in their own life until they use thirty different products to perfectly give themselves a new face of their own creative design. Their makeupsona. Their chosen face.
Because the cis women feel more confident that they’re already women inherently they express their insecurities in a gender neutral manner. “I feel like a gross feral squirrel” or something. Whereas trans women are more insecure in their womanhood and frame it as not being woman enough. But it’s the same feeling ain’t it?
