The symbol can come in various shades and colors depending on an individual preference. It usually comes in the shape of either circles or squares and can last a few weeks depending on the excessiveness of the use. The product is foundation make-up. It’s a popular symbol in today’s culture and is used widely across a variety of people. Foundation/blush make-up is a symbol within today’s 21st century society as it arises a culture dependent on materialistic notions and purchases. Its particular occupants are women of many ages and therefore possess and reflects a certain degree of femininity.
Foundation presents many connotations, such as beauty. The idea that this product is a symbol of beauty and a presenting this notion that without this particular symbol within your life you aren’t considered “beautiful”.
I believe this due to the mass amount of pressure and enforcement that has been associated with make-up in general. Looking at people such as models who constantly enforce this idea to society, by the amount of make-up they wear.
It also connotes a sense of power, due to the various shades of color that it can come in, expressing a lot about an individual. For example, by wearing red, people associate this with power and therefore seeing a woman as being dominant and forceful.
A big connotation that foundation/blush make-up reflects is the idea of covering up or hiding something. Even more importantly it comments on the culture and society we live in now, and how e are masked by these materialistic notions to see true meaning within the world and how we are controlled and hidden by certain aspects in society. the idea of putting foundation/blush make-up on as a means to cover up suggests the idea of blending in and how everyone needs to be the same to be apart of the “norm” and to cloak our identity in a sense.
Foundation/blush make-up may seem as another materialistic object used for own personal reasons, but in a broader sense it comments on the type of society and culture we live in now.
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