Progress Report

   After the research and discussions from Wednesday's class, I feel much more confident about my project idea.  I'm going to explore makeup/beauty products from a critical perspective, and how they abstract the face.  Although I believe makeup isn't always a negative thing, this project is more concerned with what makeup hides and changes, versus what it enhances.  Cindy Sherman's experimentation with different character types helped broaden the boundary for my makeup ideas, while Bruce Nauman showed me makeup as a dehumanizing process. I scrolled through countless youtube tutorials and makeup looks, but I think my idea will be most successful if I recreate runway makeup.  I don't want to use special effect makeup because that would look too costume-y, but I want something more dramatic than a person's 5 minute makeup routine.  Runway makeup illustrates exaggerated ideas of beauty that the community shares.  I've found most of these runway looks on Pinterest, which fascinates me because despite how odd (even ugly) the makeup is, Pinterest makes everything look perfect- perfect recipe, perfect nails, perfect house- and its audience is overwhelmingly female.

    Also, I wrote down a page of makeup quotes, which I will narrow down to include in the final video.