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There, you’re thinking, we’ve lost our Jennifer!
Yes, you are indeed on the Transbeauté blog. Video games and makeup, but what’s the connection?
Reading Yohan’s rather unique testimony will give you the answer. A bold answer, and above all one that we can now see among the youngest generations of our time, well beyond the usual paths and clichés.
Video games, self-discovery through makeup, living your best moment of life: this is Yohan’s story! That of a boy who borrows women’s clothes and makeup to assert himself.
Let’s GO!
Hello,
I had trouble writing my testimony. In the end, answering questions one after another blocked me.
So I wrote a text, all at once. It partly answers the questions. I don’t know if it suits you.(…)
“There is one thing I especially love: video games.”
In the 2000s, I’m a teenager. I don’t like doing sports, I don’t like competition, I don’t like talking about sex. So I become uninteresting, even potentially “harassable” in the eyes of others.
You might think I’m not interested in girls just to tick the geek cliché bingo, but no. I want to be like them. Wearing super fancy dresses, makeup that gives them a rebellious look.
They appropriate their bodies, while I’m all pimply (soon bingo) and my look is: 3mm hair and white t-shirt + jeans.
Anyway, I can’t wear “girl” clothes, or it’s exclusion, harassment. Already, I can’t even fit the “boy” standards!
So I play video games, and I think I’m weird because I had never seen a transgender or drag representation. Well, yes, but always ridiculed in movies…
A jump in time: I’m now in my twenties, with a job, nice friends and… a depression that won’t go away.
The “world” tells me: buy an apartment and customize it however you want! The joy lasted 1 month. It tells me: find a car you like! Happy for 2 days. Find your dream job. 1 year. Find your dream partner! Well, that one annoyed me before I even started.
The reality is: I can’t enjoy my life.
Another leap forward, it’s 2019.
I listen more and more to what the LGBT community, what women have to say about our society. Also, the people who talk about it also love video games. Might as well combine the useful with the pleasant.
I listen to an episode of the podcast “Ludologies – Le design de jeux à impact social” (By Studio Dilettante).
It’s an interview about how to deliver an educational and societal message with a game.
The game they talk about is “A Normal Lost Phone” (developed by Accidental Queens).
A game where you discover a lost phone and rummage inside to find its owner (don’t do that in real life, it’s an invasion of privacy).
Spoiler: The owner is a young transgender teenager. (…) One moment in the game caught my attention.
The main character wears a skirt because there are no pants for a musical performance.
It’s the first time she wears one, she finds herself beautiful. The person with her points out it suits her well.
That very day I buy dresses. If I only wear them at home, there’s no problem.
Early 2020, I watch the YouTube video “Who are video game players?” (By Sofia from Game Spectrum) about masculinity in video games but also in the industry, in video game press, and on the internet.
The video’s message is very interesting but there is another event.
At the beginning of the video, she is dressed as a man, like in her older videos I had already seen.
Then in the middle, there is a transition. The transition in the editing but also hers.
She comes back, she’s wearing makeup.
She announces that what you see is really her.
I think it suits her well.
…
And me, would it suit me well?
Shortly after I buy foundation. If I only put it on at home, no problem.
Here comes the first lockdown.
We arrive at the first lockdown. I spend my days in dresses.
I watch makeup tutorials. I listen to testimonies of transgender women. I understand I don’t feel the same as them.
But that’s okay, for now, I think I’m non-binary and that suits me.
I want to wear dresses, skirts, high heels. I want to wear makeup— a little, a lot, too much.
Now it’s 2021.
I’m in a skirt, with a bit of eyeliner and mascara.
I’m going to friends’ houses, I’m a little scared.
I arrive.
Their immediate answer:
- Hey! It suits you so well! And your eyeliner is on point. Where did you find your skirt?
Well sorry, but it’s the best moment of my life.
Actually, everyone was understanding. Friends, friends of friends, close family, and also a bit more distant family.
I even found the strength to go out in the street, shopping in a dress and makeup.
I hated photos, now I take selfies at every new outfit.
A waitress in a bar told me I had very beautiful high heels. No one had ever complimented me on an outfit before.
For my birthday this year, I want a makeup. But a truly amazing one. Something I can’t do myself.
I search online. I find Jennifer. She’s a makeup artist, she has already worked with transgender clients.
All the comments are good and reassuring. She’s 20 minutes from where I live.
Well, let’s go!
The makeup was so beautiful I was a bit sad to take it off. I wanted to show it to everyone. I was on cloud nine.
So, today with this testimony I hope I can give back a little of what was given to me.
I feel like myself. Yohan, 31 years old, non-binary. And above all there are things I really love.
Pleated skirts, corsets, colorful dresses, 10cm heels, bright red lipstick… And video games.
Thank you all.
Thank you, Yohan! It’s amazing how makeup liberates!
I notice it at every session the moment you “discover yourself.”
A feeling of well-being fills you almost immediately, like a revelation.
Each person experiences it their own way but it’s always intense.
Whether it’s “just to see how it feels,” for a birthday, to assert yourself, for a costume party idea, or cosplay makeup, my (magical ??) brushes will reveal your feminine side.
Don’t hesitate to contact me, just for a session, to… see.
Psst: leave me your comment!
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