Artificial Women

Of course, the use of cosmetics to "enhance" one's facial features is usually complemented by the wearing of sexy lingerie and fashionable outer clothing to add "glamour" and "sex appeal" to these same individuals' often-less-than-spectacular anatomies. Of course, lighting, photographic tricks, airbrushing, and plastic surgery finish what makeup, hairstyles, and fashionable clothing start, likewise emphasizing the fact that so-called glamour girls are often less glamorous than they appear to be. The end result? Artificial women.

Makeup typically starts with the application of foundation makeup, which Wikipedia defines as "a flesh-toned cosmetic applied to the face to create an even, uniform colour [sic] to the complexion, and, sometimes, to change the natural skintone [sic]." Such makeup is also known as "body paint" or as "pancake makeup," after the brand name Pan-Cake, introduced by Max Factor.

According to Wikipedia, foundation makeup is available in four degrees of opacity: sheer, light, medium, and full. Each is able to conceal a greater degree of skin problems, from "contrast between" skin "discoloration and the rest of the skin tone" (sheer) or "slight blotchiness" (light) to "freckles, discolorations, blotchiness, and red marks left by pimples" (medium) and "birthmarks, vitiligo, hyper pigmentation, and scars" (full). Essentially, foundation makeup is a mask.

After applying foundation makeup, women or shemales should apply face powder "to set" the foundation, Wikipedia informs its readers, and they may apply it again, as a touchup, "throughout the day to minimize shininess caused by oily skin." (Yuck!)

Once milady or miladyboy has donned her "foundation" makeup and perhaps powdered her nose, she's ready to construct the rest of her artificial face. Eyeliner "is used to define the eye" by outlining the organ's "contours.