http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/01/02/natural_beauty_more_oppressive_than_makeup.html
Amanda Marcotte writes and article on January 2nd, explaining that is makeup has become a public realm, does it damage the woman's self-esteem? She begins her article explaining that the New York Times had a debate. She continues her article to say that the contributors didn't make they debate interesting because no one asked the real question that was "Why men don't get to have any makeup fun." She uses an example of Thomas Matlack, who is from the Grood Men Project, when he talks about his wife's grooming habits, he says that he doesn't mind his wife to wear makeup as long as she knows that he loves her when she has nothing on. She continues to say that the Tumblr boys beat him to it, by using handwritten signs that "natural" beauty is better then any other. Marcotte ends her article by saying that even though she doesn't use makeup all the time, she refuses to believe that women roll out of bed looking "perfectly natural."
In Marcotte article she expresses her thoughts of the "natural" beauty that the media portrays. In this article Marcotte starts with a very natural and straight forward tone of voice, when giving examples of med who have said that their wife's best features are before she puts on everything else. She explains that the boys on Tumblr beat Matlack by writing signs, expressing how girls don't need makeup or nice clothes to be beautiful because they are all beautiful. She uses a picture of a boy from Tumblr, the lighting on the picture gives emphasize on the boy with the sign and has a very serial image. It also has a bit of irony to the picture, because even though the boy is saying that girls are all beautiful without makeup, he, himself is wearing makeup of some kind. Marcotte ends her article with a very stung point and showing her point of view by saying "I refuse to embrace the fantasy that women just roll out of bed looking this way."
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