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It can be said that human beings need to perceive their own body and appearance in the endlessly changing criterion for social beauty and engage in appearance management behavior relating to their physical defect and appearance. Middle-aged men have recently taken mounting interests in appearance management, which indicates an intention to raise the appraised value of them. Accordingly, it is thought that it is important to find out the scheme for bringing about the phenomenon that men's appearance management spread in social terms can satisfy the past oppressed expressive desire for their appearance, not lookism, and have a positive effect in society. This study attempted to assist the men put in midlife, a turning point of life cycle, in finding out their appearance through detailed observation and diagnosis. And at a point in time that an aging society spreads now in social terms, it is thought that it is important to find out the scheme for bringing about the phenomenon that middle-aged men's appearance management can satisfy the desire for expressing their appearance, not simple lookism, and have a more positive effect in society. Accordingly, this study attempted to investigate the recognition of the individual level inherent in middle-aged men, the period of discovering their figure, and the degree of evaluation about their appearance management behavior and of male make-up recognition in relation to male appearance recognition in terms of self-understanding.