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“I worry because in Nigeria we don’t see a lot of men who have (an) interest in make-up.
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And so he is bothered that he might not reach his full potential in Nigeria. When he became confident enough in his abilities, he began to practice on other people’s faces.Ī male make-up artist is not a common phenomenon in Nigeria, says Jameen Jude, another male make-up wearing MUA based in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, whose journey to becoming one developed purely out of self-interest.
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The more he bettered his skill, the more his passion grew. He decided to teach himself he watched a lot of make-up tutorial videos on YouTube and Instagram and would then practice on his face. But the teaching was more theoretical than practical and he couldn’t learn anything. Like, how do people go from this to this?” So, he attended two make-up tutorial classes. Michael Okoh (better known as The Kohh), a 22-year-old make-up artist based in the ancient city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria, about 130 kilometres away from Lagos, was fascinated by the make-up transition process highlighted by the before and after picmix trend of 2015/2016. I can go out there and take anything, because if I can wear make-up in a society like Nigeria, what is stopping me from achieving my dreams? I feel really good, even to class I’ve won make-up, and I attend a very catholic school,” he says. “I feel like I can do anything, I can conquer anything. Thus, much of Nigeria’s youth population tend to groom in gender-conforming styles.įor Enioluwa, who is now a Masters student at a private university in Lagos, wearing make-up is his way of expressing himself. Male students are sometimes sent out of classrooms for braiding or locking their hair. You’d often find big signposts at university gates, cautioning against what is termed indecent dressing. Institutions like universities that should be progressive are not exempt. Churches would go as far as to send their worshippers back home if they came dressed or groomed in a way they consider immodest or ill-befitting of Christians. In a conservative country like Nigeria where dominant Pentecostal churches propagate doctrines that abhors make-up even for women, it is unheard of. Men or boys grooming with make-up is not a norm anywhere in the world. “Because it is not something that is really popular in Nigeria, to kinda be popular for it is quite surprising.” He had just been fascinated with make-up and did not mind sharing how he came about his minimal look on social media. When he began making make-up tutorial videos for men on Instagram in 2019, a year after he had graduated from university, he never thought he would ever influence for beauty brands, he tells Dazed. Today, the 21-year-old is a beauty influencer with over a hundred thousand followers on Instagram, and has been nicknamed ‘lip gloss boy’ (reapplying lip gloss as he delivers a punchline has become a motif of his comic skits) by fans, even though he would rather be called ‘beauty boy’. He was in the company of his female friends and while they applied different shades of foundation and concealer just as they had watched Jackie Aina do on YouTube, he thought to do the same. Enioluwa Adeoluwa was in his first year in university the first time he tried make-up on.