The purpose of makeup
Why do we go to the parlor and got ourselves makeup? Or why do we wear makeup in the first place? I guess the obvious answer is to make and look ourselves beautiful, to make ourselves pretty. Now the question is how to make ourselves beautiful and pretty.
For me, the answers are a bit longer. I believe that everyone and everything in our life is beautiful in its own way. All you have to do is to look for it. So, if a person is already beautiful, how do you make him/her more beautiful or prettier. Well, you can present him/her in a way which suits him/her and you can highlight his/her best characteristics in a way which will highlight him/her. This will show his/her uniqueness in an unparalleled way since every person is unique in this world.
To me, that should be the ultimate purpose or goal of makeup. To highlight our beauty and uniqueness profoundly.
The reason I am writing on this particular issue because recently I have seen several women and girls to wear makeup in a way that actually hid their original beauty. Also sometimes, there were professional makeup artists involved in the whole process. These professional artists converted the women and girls in a way that can only be described as artificial and lacking authenticity. After makeup, these women and girls became someone else after the makeup and thus they were unrecognizable both figuratively and literally.
If we lost our authenticity and our genuineness, we lost everything and we are dead inside. Our face and physical feature are one of our genuine characteristics which are unique and cannot be found in another person. Whenever we wear makeup, we should keep this in mind. If there is professional makeup artist engaged, s/he should take a bit of time to understand the person and then engage in makeup. If we do not do this, then we might become lost.