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The trouble with visual kei is that if you're not Asian it's hard to pull it off, quite honestly! It's all about the eyes and the eye brows. If you don't have Asian eyes then it's pretty hard. But that's what makeup is for!
I'm an American. I love VK fashion, and when I'm styled in that fashion people do confused me for being Asian. It's the flat iron straight hair and the VK eye make-up.
What I like to do is:
01. Paint my face white with Ben Nye Geisha white makeup, then I use a white setting powder. I do this twice for a nice flat white face. If you don't want to be painted white, then just get some foundation. Liquid is harsh on the pores, Bare Minerals foundation powder is the way to go! Pricey, but it lasts a super long time and will not clog pores or feel gross.
02. My eye brows are half plucked off so I can get the angle correct. I used an wedge brush/eye liner brush and black powder to paint them in. I find the brush easier to use for the thin fine line I need for my eye brows. What a true VK person does is shave off the eye brows and pencil them in, but achieving symmetry can be difficult!
03. I pick a style of eye shadow to apply. Shading is key! A basic cat eye is a good start, or heavy shading on the outer or inner eye. Basic VK style is the blacken out the eye lid and a painted on fake eye lid crease above that. This is because most Japanese don't have a crease to their eyes. I've done it, and it's still as effective. I see drag queens do it all the time!
BETTER HAIR!
04. You absolutely CANNOT look visual kei without the right hair! Use Remmington Blow dryer with ions to dry hair, then use Remmington flat iron with ions - with use of a straightening gel. Get a TEASING COMB, this special comb has teeth that will catch your hair when teasing, I swear by it! And a mighty strong hairspray like Treseme Tres Two extra hold, or their freeze spray. Use during teasing, then do a go over spray after teasing. Got 2b Glued sucks! It doesn't hold my hair up for more than 1hr. Treseme lasts me all all night long.
This is me:
Hizaki is the easiest eye makeup to do, this is the basic anime eye. Paint on pink eye shadow above the eye lid. Paint eye lids black, then paint black heavily to the outer eye of the bottom lid. The outer eye has a hard rounded look to it. (You can use tape under the eye to keep your black eye shadow from getting out of hand when you're perfecting that part of the eye) Her eyes are in fact lined all the way around. Use a liquid eye liner for that, so you can get that Asian looking dip on the inner eyes, but paint on a thin line when you do that. Then glue on fake eye lashes to the lower and upper eye lid. Her eye brows are penciled in to match her hair.
I can tell that Teru's eyes are painted the same way. But his eye liner does not go all the way around the eye. So you will have to achieve the illusion of an Asian eye with the liquid eye liner from the top eye lid only by bringing down the dip of the eye.
I hope this helps you, I did my best to explain it.
This is me again:
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Originally Posted by YoshimiTheEthereal
I am wanting the Visual Kei look, but I am really struggling to get my makeup to look right. I've been trying Hizaki and Teru's style from Versailles, but it doesn't look right somehow. I think it's because I'm Caucasian. Can someone please give me some tips and help on how I can get the Visual Kei look without being Asian? Or even the Oshare kei look?
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