Make-up Defined

It's not whether a woman uses make-up or not, it's the amount she wears that matters.

It has always been a trending topic: WHO LOOK BETTER? women who wear make-up or those who keep it simple. Many say keeping it natural is better and some say I prefer her with make-up on. But definitely actions speak louder than words and so, here are the facts that study and research have contributed to the world of women and make-up.

Our generation has been discriminating women who wear make-up. Their basis, they wouldn't look good with out make-up on. According to Christie Wilcox, the author of The Science of Make-up, the manipulation of one's face with the use of make-up has dated back to the early 3500 BC (found in Egyptian and Sumerian Tombs) and the use of body paint to be dated about 50,000 years ago. 

So to say if women have been trying to use makeup to make themselves look good about 50,000 years ago then, modern science must have really hit the jack-pot developing make-up for women this century.

In Christie's article, she says that there are two reason why women use makeup. To look healthier and to give off a sign that one is fertile. It simply is survival. Humans, particularly women lack the ability to show signs of fertility using make-up enhances this ability we lack. 

Today, scientific study has now defined what particular look which attracts the opposite sex..


FAIR COMPLEXION... for a healthier look
        DARKENED EYES and RED LIPS... for a more synergistically feminine appeal
               PINK CHICKS... to show off blushing fertility

So what fault does trying to look healthier and looking for suitable partner cause so much discrimination. 

Likes and shares of women with makeup have tallied up to top the ranks of beauty. Studies have also shown that men see women to be more competent wearing makeup on. None the less more presentable in work places. According to an article by Catherine Saint Louis, Up the Career Ladder, Lipstick in Hand. 

Ironically, this discrimination possible insecurity. 

Women should be aware of only the amount of makeup they put on their face. Wearing the right amount of makeup will define your purpose. Wearing enough on the right occasions make a woman not stand out, but instead be noticed for a purpose. It's just like wearing bar make up for work, seriously? Wear it with purpose.



"We are drawn to makeup because it taps into our primal urge to enhance our femininity, distinguish ourselves from men and prove that we are a catch" - Christie Wilcox

I believe in the words of Christie, let us define make-up once more for ourselves and the rest of a world. Makeup as it's purpose not as a show off to garner likes. Makeup as woman's confidence and not of persecution. Let us not be hypocrites to the fact that makeup indeed brings out beauty.