Asian Makeup Reaction 2019

About female beauty. In the "before" shot, the model looks average; her skin is uneven, a little shiny. In the "after" shot, she's become completely different person: her pout is now glossy, sultry. Her hair is curled into ringlets. Her eyes are shaded and enhanced. Her eyebrows are shaped and filled. And her face is dramatically contoured to make her nose thinner, her jawline sharper, and her cheekbones higher; the difference is so great, in fact, that some commenters cried Photoshop. Again and again, commenters marveled, "She doesn't look like the same person." And a statement like that — when we're talking about beauty — has weirdly moral implications. For instance, one male commenter insisted that if men engaged in the same sort of transformation, it would be seen as deceitful:

Deceitful? Depends on what this type of makeup is trying to accomplish. There is obviously no innate obligation to present one's "real" face to society. Sequined eyelids? Oxblood lips? Go wild. Makeup has developed into a form of increasingly personal expression. Blue nail polish. Blue lipstick? Get it, you crazy thing.But historically — Cleopatra, Jezebel, and beyond — makeup has been (and still is) a means of making yourself more attractive to those with whom you're trying to procreate, if you wanna get biological. With makeup, a woman can mimic the signifiers of fertility (flushed cheeks, full lips) and all sorts of other alluring little traits, like sleepy-sexy eyes, a narrow nose, and whatever else society considers beautiful. Makeup is the thinnest and most common of the masks we wear; it is not a part of us, and it's important to remember that, but it serves us quite well when it comes to getting what — whom — we want.