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[psocoptera]

Just had an interesting conversation with saxifrage and trysha about wedding photography, in which it was argued that one needed to wear makeup in wedding photos so as to not appear weirdly bleached or washed out. It occurred to me belatedly that many weddings involve at least one person of a male identification, who in our gendered society are not generally expected/pressured to wear makeup. Do men usually look washed out in their wedding pictures? Do they usually *wear makeup* for their wedding pictures? Or is this whole "washed out" thing something that only applies to women, because of our expectations of how they'll look (from seeing other pictures of women who were wearing makeup)?

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[carnap.livejournal.com]

My guess, based on my qualifications in the form of total ignorance of the black art of photography, is that it's mostly about social expectations.