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WHY

Pop Culture
MAKE-UP?

Amy Weed
Flash Staff Reporter

A typical morning of a high
schooler would be: wake up,
get out of bed, brush a comb
throughout their hair, get
dressed, eat breakfast, and leave
for school half awake. But there’s
a step that’s been missed that
85% of Fraser High School girls,
who have been surveyed, take:
applying their choice of make up
for reasons of feeling better about
themselves to experimenting with
their looks.
“Make-up is a perfecter. It’s
pretty much the only thing I like
putting on my face,” Mikayla
Winbigler said.
66% of girls at Fraser wear
makeup to school every day and
spend a small chunk to a larger
piece of time every morning. 29%
Activities Done For Apperance: Depicts activites done for ones own apperance excluding the applicaonly wear makeup to dress; 5%
tion of make-up. Please note that the FHS girls surveyed chose multiple activites and not just one, so the total
never wear it.
percentages will not add up to the total number of students who took the survey.
“Maybe a half hour, forty-five
minutes, cause I do my hair in
the morning to. I wake up at four
in the morning to do that and
then to make my younger siblings
breakfast,” Shay Ryan said. “I
always wear make-up and try to
look my best when I go outside
cause you never know who you’re
gonna meet. You could meet your
future husband outside. It could
happen.”
Reasons for wearing the
‘perfecter’ range from ‘to
feel better about yourself’ to
‘pressure’.
“I started wearing make-up
in seventh grade. Because my
sister told me ‘if you do your
make-up the same every day
and you do your hair the same
way every day you get made fun
of,” Winbigler said.“In seventh
grade I started getting made fun Products Used: Depicts products normally applied according to the FHS students surveyed. Please note that
of for not wearing make-up, so I the FHS girls surveyed chose multiple products and not just one, so the tota amount will not add up to the total
number of students who took the survey.
started wearing it and was like’

Whatever.’ They didn’t really stop
making fun of me afte ȁ$