Hey everyone! How's your writing process going so far? I've added a second scholarly source to my research and I continue to keep finding more relatable information in regards to women and makeup. The newest article I found discusses the "real" reason for why we wear makeup, and that's to help us feel confident and gorgeous. Women have been wearing makeup for many years now, and many cultures all agree upon one thing, that makeup helps us to accentuate our natural features. For example, women tend to have redder lips and darker eyes compared to men, so in turn, women will use makeup to help draw out these features. Pink cheeks also make a woman appear to be more healthy which is why so many women wear blush. Another important factor for how bold or light we wear our makeup depends upon the event we're going to. A woman who's going to a wedding may do her makeup differently whereas if she's just going to work or to a job interview. This last part is basically common sense that most of us women know, but it does play a huge part in determining how we do our makeup. I know I still have much more research to do from here but I just wanted to share my process with you guys so far. Hope your research processes are going well too! See you all Tuesday!!

Hey guys here's the link to the article about makeup that I was talking about in class today! It's a really short read but has a really powerful message.

http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lewisu.edu/stable/23056501?pq-origsite=summon&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

So I was scrolling through the app Ifunny, not sure if any of you guys still use it or have used it but I think it's hilarious! Anyways, I came across this image and immediately knew I had to use this for our visual rhetoric project. The image drew me in because you can obviously tell the woman views herself as an alien or some hideous creature without make up on. More often than not, if a woman or girl wears makeup on a daily basis then decides to not wear it one day then she may feel as if she doesn't look as great as she usually does. I'm one of those girls that wears it on a daily basis and I like to have fun with it, using winged eyeliner one day or a different shade of eyeshadow another day. I feel like it's an easy way to change up your look when you're bored. If I decide to go without makeup then I feel as if people stare at me in a different way or they'll either say "you look tired" or "you look sick" which makes me question why I ever left the house without makeup on. I know online you can find millions of pictures, quotes, and sayings that say all women are beautiful without makeup and that we shouldn't care what other people think about us but I honestly don't feel like my usual self if I'm not wearing makeup, which is sad to say. I started wearing makeup around 7th and 8th grade and it's been a habit of wearing it everyday since then. Of course I won't bother to put any on on my days off because that would be pointless, but I think it's fun to play around with different looks especially if I'm going on a date or to a special event. There are some girls who never wear makeup and still feel confident, which is great for them! But I'm not one of those girls and that's why I felt like this image was so relatable and humorous because that's exactly how I feel if I don't wear any makeup. Hopefully some of you girls can relate as well!

Hey everyone! I know we're kind of coming towards the end of our informative and surprising essays, but I can honestly say this paper and the workshops we've had have really helped me to progress more as a writer. All of the articles I used to help write my paper were found on Google and I never really even considered adding a scholarly article into my research. But I feel like doing this as an assignment not only helped me to better understand our library's resources, but it also helped me to appreciate the values of using a scholarly source. Some of the pleasures that came out of using a scholarly article in my essay was that I know this information is from a credited source and not just some opinion article found somewhere on the Internet. The person who wrote this article obviously put a lot of time and research into writing this piece and I found the information to be very useful to add into my essay. I feel like this source makes my essay sound better and more professional in a way. Some of the challenges I faced while using a scholarly article was finding one that interests me as well as fits in with my essay topic. I must've spent a good forty-five minutes to an hour just searching for an article that I wanted to use in my essay. It took a lot of investigating and I read so many different scholarly articles but I finally came across one that I really enjoyed. Another challenge I faced was how to address the article in my essay because there were no authors mentioned within the article, so I really had to spend extra time on my attributive tags. Although I faced some challenges while finding a good scholarly article, I found the process and the use of one to be very beneficial. I hope all of your essays are coming along well! See you all next week, have a good weekend! :)