Beauty Houses' Next Step: Men's Makeup

摘要

When Yota Nakamura's girlfriend said he should spruce up his look, he went shopping. The 22-year-old university student in Osaka purchased toner, moisturizer, and a tinted face primer-yes, makeup-made by a Japanese brand called Fiveism x Three. Now Nakamura, a neuroscience student, is thinking ahead to next year, when he'll start a job as a consultant in Tokyo. He wants to make sure he has the right foundation and concealer lined up. "When I start working, I'll be meeting with clients a lot, so I think I would like to use makeup," he says. "Maybe it would be embarrassing to say you're using lipstick, but things like face primer or foundation? No one would think anything of it."