You Say Sissy I Say Sexy: The 16 Best Uses Of Guyliner

By Joanna Robinson | Posted Under Seriously Random Lists | Comments (63)

Here’s a random and jest fer fun round up of some dudes rocking my favorite accessory: Guyliner. Some a fictional, some are not. Some are gay/trans/bi, some are straight as the proverbial arrow. But all look fantastic. Yes, yes, even old Captain Jack.

Alan Cumming

Billie Joe

Lafayette Reynolds

Rudolph Valentino
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Richard Alpert (Many have claimed this is just what Nestor Carbonell’s eyes naturally look like. I will remain unconvinced until I wake up next to him some morning. So, Nestor, if you want to set the record straight, you know my number.)

Noel Fielding

Khal Drogo

Eddie Izzard

Jack Sparrow (In the first film, before he became so entirely cartoonish.)
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Brian Slade

Ewan McGregor (No, not just as Curt Wild. Man loves his recreational Guyliner.)

Nizam (Worst movie, best liquid liner.)

Spike

Bowie

Alex (This is really more Manscara than Guyliner.)

Azazeal (Inarticulate noises.)

Joanna Robinson doesn’t think you would actually say “sissy.” She knows you’re better than that.

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Nestor has mentioned in at least one interview that his eyelashes are ungarnished (that was the first non-word that came to my head). Man, Spike was SO HOT in that episode of Buffy. And I would rather do Eddie I in drag. He rocks the eye makeup.

Posted by: Julie at July 5, 2011 4:05 PM

Cillian Murphy?

Posted by: Natalie at July 5, 2011 4:05 PM

Richmond! I love Noel Fielding.

Azazeal was the best part of that dreadful "Hex."

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at July 5, 2011 4:11 PM

Yay Noel Fielding. I say more Noel Fielding at Pajiba.

Posted by: Zirze at July 5, 2011 4:14 PM

Tim Minchin. Tim Minchin. Tim Minchin. Add to your list and to your heart, apply liberally and frequently.

I guarantee you that in two years, this site will be totally gay-bones for Tim. Here's a little taste for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw&feature=related

Mmmmm. My bunk, hold my calls, etc.

Posted by: StoatCat at July 5, 2011 4:19 PM

I, too, like a man in "guyliner."

Posted by: tamatha at July 5, 2011 4:20 PM

@StoatCat I can never be gay-bones for that hair. Sorry.

Posted by: Reina at July 5, 2011 4:31 PM

Is Joanna ovulating? There have been a lot of "lists" in the last few days.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 5, 2011 4:33 PM

As an Italian girl, familiar with the unfairness of Italian guys' insanely thick eyelashes, I'm going to have to put in another vote for Nestor Carbonell just being blessed with dense black lashes. It ain't right, but it is true.

Posted by: noodlestein at July 5, 2011 4:35 PM

Do I need to get checked out? I totally thought that was a really good shot of Steve Carrell up top.

Posted by: Laura at July 5, 2011 4:35 PM

I just googled for big pictures of Nestor Carbonell and found a pretty high-resolution one here, looking at that, I believe him when he says he's not using eyeliner. You can definitely see skin between the eyelashes and there's no black liner there (look especially at his left eye, on the viewer's right, and the space between some of the lower lashes there).

Of course, just because he's not using eyeliner, that doesn't prove he's not using mascara! But I doubt it, it's not really that hard to believe someone could have lashes like that naturally, and he looks like that in every picture and every role, even when he was Batmanuel on The Tick!

Posted by: Jesse M. at July 5, 2011 4:37 PM

@Reina-

Suit yourself, more for me!

Get lost, Weird Al, you had your chance.

Actually, stick around for fifteen minutes, I have an idea for an "improv game" after Tim and I are done here...

Posted by: StoatCat at July 5, 2011 4:37 PM

Oh yay, another website perpetuating the myth that Nestor Carbonell wears guyliner.

He doesn't. There is no debate. He just has pretty eyes. Why is this such a hurdle to jump?

Posted by: Skyler Durden at July 5, 2011 4:38 PM

It's almost like you want me to be in lesbians with you...

It's ok if you add Jared Leto to this. No one will judge you. Ok, well *I* won't judge you.

Also,
DROGO 4EVA!

Posted by: Lainey at July 5, 2011 4:48 PM

Oh no! Someone is perpetuating misinformation about an actor's eyelashes! Will no one think of the children? I shall pen a sharply-worded missive on my most importuning stationary to my Alderman(woman) at the earliest opportunity.

Oh dear, oh dear. There really is nothing for it:

Release the Kraken!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at July 5, 2011 4:49 PM

Oh, Alan Cumming. I secretly love you the best, and your guyliner.

Posted by: MM at July 5, 2011 4:50 PM

Alex wore FAKE eyelashes, not mascara or eyeliner.
He is seen in his room in one scene removing them for the night.

Posted by: mothy at July 5, 2011 4:50 PM

I can barely process all of the hotness on this list. May their Sephora carts runneth over.

Posted by: jM at July 5, 2011 4:57 PM

THANK YOU for the Khal Drogo! I must also submit Gerard Butler in Attila.

Posted by: weetiger3 at July 5, 2011 5:02 PM

I went to high school with a kid who had the perma-liner like Nestor. It's a shame that he was kind of jocky/preppy because he was also short with spiky hair. He would have been a great goth kid.

Posted by: Internet Magpie at July 5, 2011 5:02 PM

I don't mean to be THAT GUY but as a life long Green Day Fan, I have to correct you. His name is spelled BILLIE JOE, not BILLY JOE.

(You're not "that guy" in the slightest. I am ashamed, Billie Joe is a local boy, I should have known better. Noted and corrected. Thanks!!--JR)

Posted by: junierizzle at July 5, 2011 5:03 PM

The Dothraki have no qualms with eyeliner. They're nomads of the grasslands, and therefore have no trees with squirrel holes in which to hide their make-up. Drogo looks anything but slapdash.

Posted by: branded at July 5, 2011 5:17 PM

I'm sorry, but any guyliner list that does not have TIM CURRY on it, is useless.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 5, 2011 5:20 PM

Can I just say that the inclusion of Jason MomomomomomomoMOMOMOa around here has me so very, very happy.

Seriously, I could look at the guy forever.

I know he's married (to Lisa Bonet, wtf?) but this and his utter unattainability does nothing to deter me.

Posted by: meh at July 5, 2011 5:26 PM

No love for natural guylinered George Clooney?

and btw...

I HATE MEN IN MAKEUP. I hate men in drag, especially lipstick. It makes my tummy topsy-turvy

just my opinion folks....move along.....nothing to see here....

Posted by: kirbyjay at July 5, 2011 5:28 PM

Where my Adam Lambert at? Momma likes AL and thinks he's super cute and sexy. Yes and I know, gay. Whatever. I am an equal opportunity cougar.

Posted by: wsapnin at July 5, 2011 5:32 PM

Ahhhhh. How I love you for including Ewan McGregor. And the others, but mainly him.

Posted by: Melissa at July 5, 2011 5:40 PM

Poofta.

I just like saying poofta...

Posted by: MRod at July 5, 2011 5:52 PM

Batmanuel!

Posted by: Mrod at July 5, 2011 5:56 PM

In high school I was working on a production of Hamlet when I had my first guys-in-makeup experience. Things were awakened.
/drool

Posted by: Patty O'Green at July 5, 2011 6:07 PM

I was going to correct you on Nestor until I saw your caption under his picture. Unlike the rest of the peeps who were gettin' all grumpified about you perpetuating the myth of Nestor's lashes, I would like to say I admire the adorable and clever way in which you you beckoned Monsieur Carbonell to your boudoir.

Posted by: Jessie at July 5, 2011 6:10 PM

I believe Carbonell--MrFig has eyes just like that, and in the right light it looks like he's got eyeliner on.

And with the exception of Carbonell, McGregor and Momoa, I find every other photo up there a big dud. Not because of the manliner, mind you. They're all just kinda fug to me anyway.

Posted by: Figgy at July 5, 2011 6:12 PM

i second the inclusions of jared leto and adam lambert. because, um. yes. ...also, reading this (okay gawking and drooling over it) makes me sad that my fiance grew out of his gothy guyliner phase before i ever even met him. sigh.

Posted by: betsy at July 5, 2011 6:58 PM

wsapnin: Yes.

Lambert is one sexy little over emoting man. "Whataya want from me??" Oh I think you know sir I think you know.

Posted by: E-Money at July 5, 2011 7:04 PM

I'm surprised to see no love for Robert Smith. WTF?

Posted by: Carolina Girl at July 5, 2011 7:20 PM

You forgot Tim Minchin!!!

Posted by: ruru at July 5, 2011 7:31 PM

Posted by: wsapnin at July 5, 2011 5:32 PM

CO-SIGNED. Mmm mm mm mm mm.

Also: YES. Lainey is correct. There needs to be moar Jared Leto. MmmmmMMMmMMMmMMmMmMmMM.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at July 5, 2011 7:31 PM

I was all prepared to give this list a resounding MEH. And then there was Spike. The world is saved.

(Ok, and maybe Fassbender. I am still on the fence, probably pending Jane Eyre.)

Posted by: Samantha at July 5, 2011 7:35 PM

Every man should put on full make-up at least once in his life, just to see what women go through.

Posted by: The Mutt at July 5, 2011 7:41 PM

What. The. Hell? I declare this list to be a farce as Alice Cooper is not shown.

Yeah he is a little long in the tooth, but for eyeliner 80's-90's smolder you can't get any better!

Posted by: The Woo at July 5, 2011 7:49 PM

MmmmmMMMmMMMmMMmMmMmMM

You rang?

Posted by: MM at July 5, 2011 7:54 PM

I thought I had never seen Michael Fassbender in anything, and pictures didn't make him look very good to me.

But Fassbender played Azazeal in Hex? The penny drops.

Posted by: Three-nineteen at July 5, 2011 8:45 PM

Yay Noel Fielding. I say more Noel Fielding at Pajiba.
Posted by: Zirze at July 5, 2011 4:14 PM

Richmond's still alive!?

Yes, yes more of Noel Fielding all around!

And Eddie, oh how I'm still kicking myself for not seeing you in NYC when I had the chance.....

BTW, I really think that Billie Joe Armstrong is the only one who can pull it off...

Posted by: grace b at July 5, 2011 9:56 PM

Batmanuel!!!!! Spoooon!!

Love you, Nestor!

Posted by: klingonfree at July 5, 2011 10:26 PM

O and another thing: As a lucky woman married to a v hot latino man, I can vouch for the unlawfully thick lashes and that's-not-makeup-lookin-big-brown eyes. My son's got them too. Lucky bastard.

Batmanuel 4evah!

Posted by: klingonfree at July 5, 2011 10:41 PM

Hot.

That's all.

Posted by: Sara H at July 5, 2011 11:00 PM

Ooohhhh...Spike.

There may not be anything hotter than angry punk-god James Marsters.

Unless it was angry punk-god James Marsters with no shirt on, slamming me into the wall, right before he-

You can fill in the blank. I've got to go and find, um, something...

Posted by: JennV at July 5, 2011 11:06 PM

Spike? or BILLY IDOL?!

Posted by: Nick at July 5, 2011 11:26 PM

I am so completely with you on Tim Minchin, StoatCat.

Posted by: Uda at July 5, 2011 11:28 PM

How about some love for Jamie Bell here? http://jamie-bell-i.fullmoviereview.com/FMR_Images/actor_images/66/32/73266/Jamie_Bell-image-491947.jpg

I'm not that fond of a guy in guyliner per se but that photo is just stunning.

Posted by: noo at July 5, 2011 11:49 PM

my only fetiche (can you keep this list going forever?). ewan macgregor... damn.

Posted by: lady_w at July 6, 2011 12:01 AM

Uuiuuuuuuuuuuum. Lee Pace In The Fall? The hell ?

Posted by: Nadinen at July 6, 2011 1:40 AM

Glad I could help!

Posted by: junierizzle at July 6, 2011 2:09 AM

It's not sexy or sissy, it's sessy.

Posted by: James S at July 6, 2011 2:26 AM

Question: are handlebar mustaches and guyliner clashing statements on one man's face? I will endeavor to find out.

ALSO: I just talked to Nestor and he lost his phone AND your number. You better call him.

Posted by: Michael G at July 6, 2011 2:52 AM

The Blue October lead singer:

http://www.seanmoormanphoto.com/ColorPortraitStars/images/Copy%20of%20Justin%20Vocals%20Blue%20OctoberC3.jpg

Posted by: snapnhiss at July 6, 2011 7:17 AM

Eh?

David Tennant? "Fright Night"-trailer? No?

... I am profoundly disappointment.

Posted by: Rooks at July 6, 2011 8:09 AM

Uuiuuuuuuuuuuum. Lee Pace In The Fall? The hell ?

Posted by: Nadinen at July 6, 2011 1:40 AM

Oh, and second, third and fourth this as well.
This list is awesome (ohmygodsfassbender!), but incomplete.

Posted by: Rooks at July 6, 2011 8:12 AM

Faaaaaaaassbeeeeeeeeeendeeeeer

Posted by: Yodalicious at July 6, 2011 9:46 AM

Fabu list, Joanna. And, I'm so glad to see my No. 1 crush Eddie on a list SOMEwhere. Don't you just wanna bite him when he's in full makeup?

Posted by: Stinky at July 6, 2011 10:26 AM

Can anyone rustle up any pics of Raoul Bova in guyliner? Photoshopped is fine with me.

Posted by: Stinky at July 6, 2011 10:32 AM

Meh, with the exception of Richard Alpert, I say no thank you to all of the above.

Posted by: Austin at July 6, 2011 1:00 PM

So much hotness!

Posted by: Jifaner at July 8, 2011 12:00 AM

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