It takes time to figure it out. There are loads of videos on YouTube and Tik Tok talking specifically about feminizing makeup for trans fems. The key is really to learn about where to place concealer and color corrector, how to blend foundation, if you have hooded eyes where to apply highlighter and eyeshadow and eye liner. It’s a lot to dig into. I’m very much still learning makeup myself, but I try and break things down into bite-size bits that I can work on. Coming out at from “I do not know how to do my makeup” and having a direct goal of “I want to know how to do my makeup” was too much for me, personally. Instead I try and research individual things, like eyeliner and how to best apply it for my eye type. Learning what concealer patterns look best on me has been a big one lately.

Buy what you can at the drug store, not that they’re usually very cheap anymore but still. Get into it, find content creators who talk about makeup that you like. I love watching get ready with me and get unready with me style videos because it shows you the whole process of makeup application from beginning to end. And there’s soooo many creators out there making.that kind of content, loads of trans fems as well.

I completely feel you on the discouragement of putting on makeup and seeing that it didn’t do exactly what I wanted it to, that I didn’t look like how I imagined I would. But thats where learning comes in, where getting interested in it comes in, where practice comes in. Keep at it, and make changes and see what other trans women do and with enough work you can get it too :)