Essay on make up

Thursday 6th October

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Essay about my passion

In the context of an essay, I must to address the subject of a passion that liven up. I must warn reader, that before I started writhing this essay, I did not think I really had one. I have noted that I have a rather special relationship with Make-up. According to me, Make-up is not considered a good passion in the society. In effect, when we compare a person who expresses an interest about English literature, we would describe that person as intellectual and open-minded. Contrary to make up, where we will place a person in a superficial, egocentric category. It’s difficult for me to say I like make-up. I censor myself.

First of all, I grew up in a family where women were very stylish/coquette. From a very young age, my mother allowed me to wear make-up, but I had some rules to respect because, “school is not a fashion week”. When I went to high school, limited myself with concealer, mascara, lip gloss and blush. It was mostly around Halloween when I would play with colors to make funny or terrifying characters like Clown.

It’s only last year that I really started to play with colors, techniques, and textures to go to go university. This period was marked by academic failure. I did not like what I was doing in class. I was confused about my orientation; It was a very difficult period for me, marked by the loss of self-confidence, sadness, and anger. According to the professors of high school, the excellent student in high school who was close to perfection, became a mediocre student, who was getting zeros in university. To think about something else, I started to escape into the world of make-up. I loved to apply it to my lid colors. It lightening up my day a bit and gave me a goal in the day. These goals were varied, it could be to try out new techniques or such as to do something related to a movie, I saw the day before. My imagination was running wild. I was finally taking some time for myself, I was not letting the darkness engulf me anymore. Many people complimented my work, so I became a little more confident. But one day, a old person starred at me on the bus, and said loudly “what’s with the paint can, you are so shallow”. From that day, it was difficult for me to wear make-up, even though it was the only thing that liven up and brought me out of the dark tunnel in which I had lost myself due to my education.

In principle, I can understand this type of judgement linked to the superficial and egocentric side because with make-up, often, one "improves" one's physical appearance. But, in my opinion, it is much more than that. Indeed, being interested in the field of make-up and more broadly in cosmetics is not reduced to taking a brush and spreading product on your face. My relationship with make-up can certainly be "practical", but it is also "theoretical" as long as I sometimes read the press releases of certain brands, to inform myself about innovations in cosmetology. I also enjoy analyzing advertissements and I hope that with the studies I’m to do, I will be able to perceive the marketing strategy behind a beauty product. I also watch documentaries about the history of cosmetics, which is very interesting. For example, cosmetics helped psychologically the broken bones of the

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