[tangofiction]

Seen in traffic: a Mercedes stopped at a red light. The middle-aged male driver in a smart business suit gets out a pair of tweezers, adjusts the mirror -- and proceeds to fix his eyebrows.

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[CryBaby]

Я в метро как-то видела мальчика с покрытыми бесцветным лаком аккуратными ногтями... Но ему до описанного тобой персонажа еще далеко, конечно. ))

[tangofiction]

Heh -- I've seen guys with painted nails quite a few times, though usually it's a bright blue/black/green/violet or something, not skintone.



I've even helped a guy pick out a shade of lipstick once, for the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras -- but that's an entirely different kind of guy.



Tango

[Стэн]

Tango

Er, and what is Mardi Gras? :-D

[tangofiction]

Стэн

It's a very big local event which started in the 70s as a protest march for gay rights. Nowadays it amounts to something like the Santa Claus parade, except there is no Santa and all the floats have a gay theme. It's also Sydney's biggest street party, and hundreds of thousands of people take the chance to wear a lot of glitter and feathers and watch the parade or just go out to a club. The clubs are always packed on Mardi Gras night.



Tango

[Стэн]

I've found an interesting link. It turned out, there is such notion as "Метросексуал" or a "modern man" (dunno how translate this term to English).



Here is a link (in russian):

http://daniel.ru/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=10;t=965;st=0

[tangofiction]

Стэн

Oh yeah, I was going to say in the first post that this was obviously a "metrosexual", but then decided to stick to the facts.



About "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" -- it seems really strange to me that someone should ask gay men for advice on how to appeal to women. Of course, I've never really gone in for makeover shows of any kind, for women or for men.



Tango

[Стэн]

it seems really strange to me that someone should ask gay men for advice on how to appeal to women



Tango, surely, it would be wiser to ask a woman this question. :-D