Pop music was a big thing back in the mid-late 90's and early 2000's. Many young girls (and some boys), would want to dress up like their favorite 90's pop star and play as if they were the band. But that was not the only "look" in the 90's. There were also many others such as grunge for example. But music and style were not tghe only things popular in the era, television became a well popular thing. When the television show Friends debuted, many people wanted to look like Jennifer Annisten and have what is known as "the Rachel look". "Consumers become increasingly sophisticated. A desire to enhance one's natural beauty with lighter, less visible formulas results in a scientific approach to cosmetics that appeals to users. Cosmetics no longer just cover-up but are 'light-reflecting' and 'wrinkle-defying', too.The battle to rid the body of cellulite with expensive creams and body-toners dominates, while the growing interest in celebrity looks sees top make-up artists such as Bobbi Brown launching highly successful independent ranges.Supermodel Iman, frustrated by the appalling lack of ranges to suit women of colour, succeeds with her own make-up line. Meanwhile, Isabella Ross
ellini, famously dumped by Lanc me for being too old at 43, launches her own Manifesto range, designed to suit women of all ages."-http://burlesquebaby.blogspot.com/2008/02/100-years-of-make-up-part-10-1990s.html
ellini, famously dumped by Lanc me for being too old at 43, launches her own Manifesto range, designed to suit women of all ages."-http://burlesquebaby.blogspot.com/2008/02/100-years-of-make-up-part-10-1990s.html
3 comments:
Coming from the artistic point of view, I feel as though all of the young girls were changing their hair, make up and beauty to feel more like the pop stars and beautiful women on TV. Beauty was a glamorous way to help a woman feel "better" about herself so she would go buy new clothes, change her hair color or try new make up ideas to enhance her ego. The pop stars and TV show actresses showed to the girls that it was almost okay to change their natural self to become more beautiful like them. Socially, the wide spread media and pictures streamed everywhere and the girls wanted to be more like these pretty woman on TV. The pop stars and actresses seemed to have become the new role models and it spread through out the nation. They would develop these new hairstyles and make up products that would make lips, one shade lighter, hair a little darker or skin a little softer. Science advancements in developing all of these new products forced society to change in a way that seemed to have erased natural beauty.
-Alisha Rickert
It's weird for me, being that I'm a guy to understand the true value of having to use makeup other than being in a play or dressing up for Halloween. it seems though back then it wasn't as bad, with makeup and trying to look pretty, as in the sense of starving ones self, or changing the way one had to look on screen. but then again i think things stared to get out of hand maybe around 1995 up till now. but then again what the heck do i know im just a dude.
I think that society of the past was more concerned with women altering their beauty because of the way how beauty was portrayed by the mass media. People wanted to be skinny when the culure was accepting of this kind of trend. Beauty was never about people accepting themselve for who they really were, but it was about how the society said beauty should be.
Post a Comment