Make-up can make someone average feel beautiful, make-up can change the way we look and the way we feel about ourselves. This post may seem hypocritical because I use make-up on special occasions and sometimes to work. I have used make-up on my wedding and even had fake eyelashes and the whole nine yards. However, I think we can also recognize that make-up is no friend to our skin. Think about the chemicals that are in that bottle of foundation: 

Homosalate: 9.0%, Titanium Dioxide: 1.8%, Zinc Oxide: 0.9%, Water/Aqua, Dimethicone, Talc, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Isododecane, Cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 Dimethicone, Isopentyldiol, Sorbitol, Tocopheryl Acetate, Phenoxyethanol, Sodium Chloride, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Magnesium Sulfate, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Hydrogen Dimethicone, Potassium Sorbate, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Lecithin, Benzoic Acid, Aluminum Hydroxide, Alumina, Dehydroacetic Acid, Propylene Carbonate, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Tocopherol, Ethylhexylglycerin, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Citric Acid, Gardenia Florida Fruit Extract, Nelumbo Nucifera Flower Extract, Nymphaea Odorata Root Extract, Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499).

Now the above ingredients sound like complete gibberish to me other than citric acid, gardenia florida fruit extract, and flower extract the other things I have not even heard of and here I am just putting it on my face. This is the foundation that I use, which is Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty line and I love how light it feels on my skin, but again I don't know what any of those words mean and I keep applying it to my face every time I go out. Some foundations are actually the root cause of acne. You can have a beautiful clean face and then you put foundation on and then you start getting blemishes and zits. 

Aside from all the chemicals, we need to consider the financial aspect of it. I love Selena Gomez that's one of the main reasons why I bought her make-up in the first place, I grew up watching her on Wizards of Waverly Place and I think it's cool that I am one year younger than her and she is now named a self-made billionaire. Anyways, the reason of her success is because of her beauty line. Every year we are spending, the average woman spends 40$ on make up a month. Sephora made 16 billion dollars of revenue in 2023. They make so much money every year because of how much we spend on make-up. 

Who told us that we needed make-up to begin with though? Who told us that we need to wear it to accent certain features? Here's the funny part it goes all the way back to 6000 BCE. The Egyptians were the first to introduce make-up, why? because it was thought that make-up was next to godliness, and it seems that the trend has never died down. Celebrities wear make-up at any event where they know the public will be because it shows perfection. No one wants to look up at someone who has imperfect skin or blemishes. Imagine if no one wore make-up to the grammy's or to your date night? It would be a strange world to live in. Even though make up is a scam I think that we actually feel better with some make-up on. Today, I had time in the morning to do my make-up and I did I applied all my favorite cosmetics today, I have foundation, highlighter and a little bit of mascara on today. Why? because I had a few blemishes on my face that I did not want to show, and I wanted my eyes to pop. It's fine that I give into the billionaire dollar industry. Then, I started to think about other situations or places the need make up in order to thrive. So, I thought about movies and television shows. Those movies or shows would not be successful without the make-up and costume design.

Movie sets require a lot of make-up a good 95% of the time because we need to make the audience believe that the actor is bleeding out or that creepy girl is truly creepy or that doll came to life or that women is rich or poor. 

We use make-up a lot in our daily lives. It might be a bit of a scam but let's face it we need it. 

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Make-up is a Scam

How we are scammed into buying cosmetics

Make-up can make someone average feel beautiful, make-up can change the way we look and the way we feel about ourselves. This post may seem hypocritical because I use make-up on special occasions and sometimes to work. I have used make-up on my wedding and even had fake eyelashes and the whole nine yards. However, I think we can also recognize that make-up is no friend to our skin. Think about the chemicals that are in that bottle of foundation: 



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