My dissertation thesis:
An investigation into how the modern culture of compulsive beauty is affecting the identities of young women today, due to an expanding pervasive gaze of surveillance and increasing technological advancementThis can be translated into simpler English as follows;
Basically, I'm interested in looking into the reasons why young women seem to feel increasingly pressurised to look a certain way, in order to meet the expectations of what our modern society has created and exposed to us as the 'normal woman'. The idea of creating an image of oneself to reflect a kind of fabricated desire of the imagined-self through make-up application is prominent.
I will be addressing how young women use make-up, and how vital it is in terms of self-esteem and matters of psychology. This blog will be a running commentary of the research I carry out, though more centrally it will pay heed to my own reflections of how I use make-up in order to create a seemingly 'natural' outer identity for myself.
In particular, I will reflect on the 'no make-up' days that I will specifically adhere to, giving written feedback as to how my outer identity essentially affected my inner identity (i.e. my personality, behaviour, confidence etc). I will be using photographic evidence throughout this investigation, and the occasional video log - that's if my face can face it!
