Why do rockstars wear makeup

Wearing black at the opening allows the artist to slip in out of the shadows at whim, like a batman, while calibrating his anxiety. Dress Comfortably Avoid wearing dresses or shirts that restrict your arm movement as it will make it hard for you to move through the crowd. It is best if you try on the attire first and see if you feel comfortable enough to wear it to a concert. Skip to content Miscellaneous. February 18, Joe Ford. After all, it was the moment David Bowie ditched his image as just another long-haired crooner from Brixton for the otherworldly and heavily made-up Ziggy Stardust that he experienced a meteoric rise to fame.

Contemporaries and collaborators Mick Jagger and Marc Bolan also exhibited a flair for cosmetics, using daubed-on eyeliner and splashes of glitter to set themselves apart from the average frontman, finding, in the process, that femme-ing up their looks only heightened their masculine edge onstage. Robert Smith and, later, Marilyn Manson enjoyed the imprint their powdered porcelain skin, dark black eyeshadow, and blood-stained lips left on the streets.

Of course, glam rock was not the first case of men wearing makeup, either. And where would dancer Vaslav Nijinsky or actor Rudolph Valentino have been without the transformative power of makeup? With each album his paints change, ranging from black and white war markings to paints of open wounds on his face.

Either way, he looks extremely scary. Rather than just opting for skeletal white and black, Iero daubs on the rouge and an amalgam of other colours. With more hairspray that Russell Brand and the dress sense to match, they clearly didn't have much taste. Naff, but extremely memorable. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Havok has released a resplendent fashion line over recent years. Now called Paden, it was originally called Glitterboy — perhaps that says enough.

In a good way. Despite toning down the amount of makeup he wears, the singer still holds on to the black eyeliner. Extremely affective. In our opinion, it's a rather fetching look.

He never steps out without a healthy daub of eyeliner too. Keith Flint — GOOD - He may only wear a black eyeliner, but coupled with his green spikes and facial piercings, the video shoot for Firestarter is one of music's enduring images of the late nineties thanks to Keith Flint.