Make up

FAKE?

Well this photo is unedited and it's real for sure. You can see my pimples, lol. What's making me fake is the make-up. Without the make-up, i am nobody, am i? Why make up so important? Tho i'm working in sales force but i dont make up everyday. I'm kinda lazy type of person, who only focus on my eyes make-up whenever make up, many times i do not put on any foundation also. But i know this attitude has to be changed, soon enough.

I've attended a make-up competition organized by Mary Kay Malaysia, invited by a make-up artist in Penang. Still got two classes to go before can go photoshooting. Winner will be entitled a set of cosmetic kit from Mary Kay worth RM250 and also a total make over for magazine photoshoting. I do not hope for getting the best but i wish to learn some techniques to take care of my face and some make up skills from this experience, of course. =)

Well, lately there's a lot of hater published their opinions on those ladies who did plastic surgery. I mean, real scepticism. I always blame it all on guys. Why? This could takes me hours talking on it. In conclusion, guys love pretty women, dont they? So why make up matters？Read an article about it. =)

Yet another reason to read Kristen Arnett’s wonderful Makeup Memo column, if you aren’t doing so already: apparently, makeup matters. A lot.

According to a study headed by a Harvard Medical School assistant professor, not only do people perceive you as being more attractive if you wear makeup, but they also identify you as being more competent – and likeable and trustworthy.

I get the attractive thing. I don’t know many (or actually any) women who look better sans makeup than they do with a little concealer and mascara. But is it just me, or do you find it pretty unfair that I need to literally put on a different face in order to be deemed capable, amiable and reliable? I’ll tell you right now; the days that I wear makeup to the Truth In Aging office are few and far between. But Marta seems to find me an adequately competent employee.

Still, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. And now that I think about it, I wore makeup every single day for at least the first two weeks of work when I started at TIA – perhaps enough time to let that first impression sink in? Is this study telling us something we already know? I have worn makeup to every interview I’ve ever gone on in an effort to look good. I often look tired without a trace of makeup on, and maybe a little sloppy, perhaps even a little lazy. And I can definitely see how tired plus sloppy plus lazy might add up to incompetent in the eyes of an employer.

All right, so makeup makes me seem prettier and more competent to others. But more likable and trustworthy? I still find the basis of those characterizations to be unfair.

And here’s more stereotyping for you; if you do don a glamorous night-on-the-town makeup look, people will find you even more attractive and competent than if you’re wearing simpler makeup. But you will be judged as being less trustworthy, ladies, so I suppose the sexy smoky eyeliner is best kept out of the office, unless you want your boss to think that you’re the one who has been stealing the company’s office supplies.

It’s not just your boss who will judge you, either. Even newborns have a preference for attractive faces.

So maybe this is one of those “if you can’t beat them, join them” sort of lessons. Or we can even view this whole makeup-must positively, as one of the study’s researchers does: “This means that makeup really can be seen as a tool in a woman’s arsenal that allows her to actually control the way the world sees her.”

Or maybe we can all take a page out of Kristen Arnett’s book; yes, as an international makeup artist, she’s adorning faces with cosmetics all the time. But she also knows the truth about real women, and the truth is, we should be confident about ourselves in our natural state. And when we do put on makeup, whether it’s every day or once a year, it should be about improving our own perceptions, and not the perceptions of others.

Anyway, stay pretty girls.
Cheers.