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Makeup is a self-treatment initiative

Expert Clinical Psychologist Haydeh Faraji emphasizing that the use of cosmetics is one of the most powerful and accessible ways of manipulating the social appearance, said: “Makeup is a self-treatment initiative”.

“POSITIVE IMPACT AREA OF MAKEUP UNLIMITED”

Indicating that how they look for women is of paramount importance, Faraji said: “Women can use many ways to change their appearance and manipulate the social perception they create in other individuals. Makeup was also one of those roads throughout history. We now know that make-up affects both self-esteem and social perception, and that make-up is associated with the positive evaluation of both the woman herself and others, but the multiplicity and perhaps the limitlessness of the surprisingly positive domains”

“IT IS CONSIDERED THAT THOSE WHO DOES MAKE-UP IS MORE POPULAR”

Faraji stated that the results were surprising in the studies where there were asked to associate the photographs with personality traits and characters, and added: “Participants considered the owners of their face paintings to be cleaner, tidy, more feminine and more attractive, but also think that these people are more reliable, social, more relevant, more polite, more self-confident, more organized, more popular. Similar studies have shown that people in women with makeup are associated with more positive character traits, have higher status and even perceive them as having happier relationships and more fulfilling life. Not only the evaluators but the participants to be evaluated also have the opinion that the photos with make-up will be more admired and higher scores will be given”.
 
“INDIVIDUALS WITH LOW SELF-CONFIDENCE TAKE HELP FROM COSMETIC PRODUCTS”

Faraji stating that make-up has a positive effect on self-esteem said: “Contrary to popular belief, however, make-up may not always be an indicator of high self-confidence. Low self-assured individuals receive help from cosmetic products as a self-treatment intervention”.
 
“MAKE-UP IS A MASK IN DAILY LIFE”

Faculty member of the Istanbul Gelisim University Expert Clinical Psychologist Haydeh Faraji, stating that contrary to the general opinion, makeup is not always directly related to the desire to attract attention, added: “Studies examining personality characteristics and make-up behaviors show that those with introverted personality traits can be more in the group that is doing makeup. They use make-up as a ‘mask’ that is accepted in daily life and uses make-up to manage the attention rather than attracting attention.”