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Makeup Essay

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Makeup is universal, and the concept of beauty is constantly changing along with new and upcoming trends. When new music videos, games, or movies and shows premier, makeup artists and lovers of makeup use that as inspiration. On social medias like twitter and instagram, people share their work. For example, about a year ago an app called Pokemon Go was popular. Furthermore, on twitter individuals shared their makeup looks based off of different pokemon. In addition, when new Disney movies are released, such as Frozen or Moana, people will not just create a makeup look, but articulate abstract art on their eyelids. I personally am a self taught makeup enthusiast and learned the skills and techniques I use today from watching youtube, and …show more content…

However, freshman year of high school arrived, and I got an iphone. After installing apps such as instagram, twitter, and youtube, a whole new world of social media and what was popular and trending arose. While scanning through apps, I stumbled across amazing makeup artists on youtube. Youtube is an evergrowing community on the internet. In 2017, there are many brilliant makeup artists, such as Nikkie Tutorials, Manny Mua, Jaclyn Hill, Jeffree Star and more. Those are just a few of the artists I watch. The amazing thing about time and trends throughout the years, is that you can literally see how these trends in makeup are changing by looking at these videos from the beginning to end, like a timeline. Artists such as the ones I listed above are the sources of many of the trends that we see on social media today. I never took the time to notice just how many things that I do with makeup is because of these youtubers and social media. For example, I had no clue what highlighter was until about two years ago. If I did not see my favorite youtubers use this product, I most likely would never have bought it. This is the concept that I noticed with most beauty trends. Makeup looks such as winged eyeliner (which my father will never understand the sorcery behind), contouring, fake eyelashes, and

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