Michelle Phan is the ultimate YouTube beauty guru. With more than 765 million views and 4.6 million subscribers, she is one of the network's most followed people. The success eventually helped her land lucrative deals with Google and L’Oréal. And she just launched her own makeup line, to boot.

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Phan's legion of loyal fans swear by her makeup and lifestyle tutorials, calling them "inspiring" and "beautiful." She makes it a point to explain each step in detail, allowing makeup newbies to follow along easily. But what if those neophytes are men? We got three men to recreate the look in Phan's smoky eye tutorial.

It ended with mixed results.