![]() ![]() Which for some women is like, ‘Oh my god, that means I have to get up six and a half minutes early, forget it.’ And other women are like, that’s not a big deal. I timed it, and it takes me six and a half minutes to do my face. And it was interesting to see where people put themselves on the old scale of high-maintenance v low-maintenance. I’d go into an interview thinking, OK, so she does about the same amount of beauty work that I do. My default assumption, for better or worse, would be to take my routine as a kind of standard. I started thinking about beauty from a place of personal exploration. What was it like to be constantly coming up against the knowledge that maybe your own practice isn’t the standard beauty practice? You did many, many interviews for this book. I think the number of women who wear makeup, every day or on occasion, is higher than 63%. Certainly most women, I think (though there are plenty who don’t) have some kind of makeup in their bathrooms. ![]() I was surprised too! I don’t remember exactly how the study worded the question, but it may have been about wearing makeup regularly. One of the things I was most surprised to learn from Face Value is that only 63% of American women wear makeup. ![]()
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