The Impact Makeup Can Have On Us
GCE Lab School Systems & Models By: SC
Question: How does wearing/not wearing makeup affect a person’s self-esteem? Research: According to Jennifer Crocker, PhD, “People who base their own self-esteem on what others think and not on their value as human beings might pay a mental and physical price”. This can affect how one may feel about themselves. Human beings like to evaluate and examine themselves and others. Appearance can be a large piece of that. Self-esteem can be referred to as peron’s global judgements and competency regarding one’s self worth (Harter, 1988). Cosmetics have been around for at least 7,000 years. The use of cosmetics has recently become more embedded in society’s culture of women. Sarah Greenwald, from FEM News Magazine said, “Makeup started out being only for fun and now it has changed for some, a necessity rather than expression”. The increase in beauty products, and makeup in general has become more of a demand. With media more accessible, makeup is being marketed everyone. The impact of makeup is shown through the thousands of beauty influencers on YouTube and Instagram. Hypothesis: We hope to show the significance of makeup in today’s society through interviewing women who self-report about their own makeup usage and their self-esteem levels. Materials: Google Form Target Audience - In order to complete this experiment, we had to interview women that have some opinions on makeup. Our target audience was all ages, but women only. It is becoming more likely for men to wear makeup as well, but for this study, our focus was women.
Procedure: 1. Created a Google Form that was sent out through email and texts to 20 females. 2. The Google Form was open for responses for 3 days. 3. Created a graph based on the data.
SC, G oogle Form (2019).
SC, Responses (2019).
Questions: By asking this question, I thought it was important to see the age differences. I thought basics were important to know about each participant to compare... How old are you? When did you start wearing makeup? By asking this question, I wanted to get an idea of each individual's preference with makeup, and how it plays into their lives... How often do you wear makeup? Do you prefer to wear makeup? Do you enjoy doing your makeup or is it a hassle? By asking these questions, I tried to get more of an idea on how self-esteem may or may not be affected with makeup... Do you personally feel more confident when wearing makeup? If you aren’t wearing makeup, do you feel self conscious? Do you notice when others are wearing makeup?
Figure 1
SC, Pie Chart ( 2019).
In this pie chart, participants were asked to fill out the category in which fit them best according to how often they wear makeup. The data shows 40 percent of the 10 participants wear makeup everyday. 20 percent of the participants only wear makeup when going out and the other 20 percent is worn when going out. This data from the pie chart shows more participants wear makeup on a daily basis.
Figure 2
SC, Line Graph (2019).
In this line graph, the participants were asked to record when they started wearing makeup. This was an important piece of the study because it shows that most of the participants start wearing makeup during pre teens. The highest percent of 20 was at age fourteen and fifteen.
Conclusion: After completing this case study, it has been clear women are wearing makeup more often daily that not at all. The majority of participants recorded makeup to be a hassle to do everyday, but it’s still apart of some women’s everyday life. The participants that recorded wearing makeup everyday ended up showing a lower percentage in self-esteem as well. In doing this study, if I could reach more people for data it would’ve been more helpful to show the proper data. I do believe the conclusion of this was accurate, but the evidence could have been proven with more opportunity to analyze.