Wanting a relationship but social anxiety gets in the way of starting one

@Cielle The advice I gave a friend was along those lines. He was more confident when cosplaying than "being himself". I had to remind him his cosplaying as a character he likes was simply him bringing out traits that he didn't think he had. Now whenever he's in a situation that unnerves him, he'll bring out that more outgoing character.

@boundbyluck: ...I honestly don't see the problem when guys want to wear make-up or treat their skin better. I don't see them as shallow if they want to maintain their looks... Do you have like a traumatizing past with these kinds of guys or something? Or are you compensating for something and you have to show the world you're a MANLY MAN.

@Jinsei: Well, my friend never acted as the character he was cosplaying as (because he thinks RPing is weird), but because he's very pretty and he was good at cosplaying, a lot of girls approached him. @waffle: Are you focusing on any certain talent? I know I tend to get crushes on my youtube friends because they sing well, and it makes me want to talk to them even more.

Not really anything that involves other people seeing like I work on cars but its not something youd know unless you talked to me which like I said I kinda just exist at this point blending into the background

@ cielle lol, not at all there is no problem about giving a damn about their aesthetics, I just find it ridiculous to the levels some take it and to each their own, but alas that is my concept of it. I never said they were ALL shallow mind you, I wrote that some are just really shallow and care only about their looks. As if they were male models at a GALA event and they just can't stop looking fabulous in front of the imaginary cameras. I have friends like this, and they BORE ME to no end, since their entire conversation is about how to make "us" the "cromagnons" look better. I have an old school type of concept for aesthetics cielle, and I FEEL COMFORTABLE being this way. so I can not understand guys who spend 4 hours before going out to a bloody pool bar with only 3 or 4 other men who really don't care about aesthetics that much. The guy is a good buddy of mine, but his insistence on the metrosexual thing is a tad annoying, also the freaking handbag or manbag -_- ... a woman carries a purse men don't I grew up with this concept and I still believe it. And we always laugh at the comparison ... he is the pretty guy in our group, and we are the cromagnons. and its the way it is, let the new generation deal with that crap, ill stick to my old concepts. and BEFORE you think the old concept of man is "MACHO" Macho men is a concept of men who need to try and be alpha, amongst other men without ever there being any need of competition. The ones who need to show the world they are the biggest, loudest guys in a place, as if that is the most desirable trait.

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@cielle I'm anti makeup on men and women -_- (Unless for cosplay or halloween or any costuming).

I like makeup T-T. I feel like it gives off the impression that you present yourself in a somewhat more "professional" way. Kind of like your care about how you look and you put effort into how you carry yourself. Same can be said about no makeup too I guess lol