Essays on Lipstick

Sustainable production refers to the process of creation of goods and services while ensuring that the energy and natural resources are conserved, pollution is minimized, economically viable. Also, the product has to meet the health and safety standards of the employees and as well the end users (Jabbour, 2015). All industries are striving to ensure that the damages to the environment are maintained at minimal levels possible. The cosmetic industry is one of the areas that have large manufacturing plants and use of chemicals that can be harmful to the environment and the final users. There are deliberate efforts ...

About the product

The product chosen by us is a lipstick, which even though is a highly traditional cosmetic item, but still has a lot of relevance and market amongst the female consumers. While the lipstick is used as a beauty enhancement product for the lips, but over the years, the product focused is also aligned with skincare of lips as the female consumers are now more meticulous about the quality of lipstick as well and not just colors. It is considerable that there are many cosmetic brands offering the product, thus increasing the competitive landscape in the market. Many leading international ...

Introduction:

The Walt Disney Company is one of the most exalted brands on a global level, with every individual affected by the company’s utilization of content, services and consumer products one way or the other. Marketing is the most important tool that helps Disney promotes their most creative, innovative and entertaining experiences and products, to generate the need and demand effectively (About Walt Disney Company, 2016). One of the most celebrated characters of Disney is Cinderella and the following report will focus on the evolution of this legendary character through time and the marketing impact to create and maintain ...

In terms of both our vocations and hobbies, we often aspire to become great. What happens, however, when this very desire consumes and overtakes us? The 2010 film "Black Swam" starring Natalie Portman as a high-profile ballet dancer, shows its viewers that unchecked ambition can be a dangerous and ultimately deadly thing. This message is achieved primarily through the film's use of detail-heavy camerawork, its character depiction, and its embrace of magical realism and distortions of reality. The main character Nina loses her identity, herself to become perfect and on this way to the culmination of her transformation she ...

Origins

The New Romantics is a subculture movement that emerged from the working class youths of London. The movement began in the late 1970s and lasted to the later parts of the 1980s. It was associated with a new music wave and unique fashion. The fashion aspect of the movement emerged out of “Billy’s”, a club that was located on Dean Street, London. This nightclub held famous events which were called Bowie and Roxy Music nights. Young people found punk rock unattractive and wanted something different. It is this unique blend of post-punk and fashion that grew into the ...

Hegemony is formed by particular institutions or groups within capitalist society in what Gramsci identifies as civil society. Apparently, hegemony helps in securing the dominance of the most powerful class of individuals or a group of society. It does so by even determining what is identified as “common sense.” The concept of ‘hegemony’ as introduced by Gramsci into the British cultural study brought the rethinking of popular culture (Katz, 2006). This occurred in various ways. One, it produced a rethinking of popular culture. Secondly, it was considered as a key site for the production and reproduction of hegemony. Capitalists, ...

Executive Summary

This is a sales promotion report focusing on the L’Oreal and Bourjois brands to determine the effectiveness of selected sales promotion methods. It begins with the analysis of the cosmetics market within which the companies operate to shed light on the background of the companies’ operations. An analysis of the target markets, segmentation, and positioning will help in indicating the effectiveness of adopted promotion strategies in attaining set promotion strategies. The paper will also assess the promotion strategies adopted by both companies and offer a comparison. This will highlight the major differences in marketing approaches of the companies ...

Introduction

Gender is one of the themes that Morrison explores in her novel Sula. Gender roles help to create unevenness in terms of the power balance between women and men. This unequal balance of power that is prevalent in the social environment of her characters in Sula ultimately becomes a part of them. The impact of this is that it becomes nestled in the psychological conflicts they encounter and experience. In this novel, these psychological conflicts play out on the sexuality platform. The sexuality of the characters results in the internalization of the unequal balance of power between women and ...

This essay critically explores the claim that school is a significant site in which sex/gender is produced. The claim derives from a broadly social constructionist position, namely one that views sex/gender as being the product of social meanings and practices rather than something biologically given. The essay begins by outlining the social constructionist critique of the biological account of sex/gender. It then reviews recent research on gender and schooling to explore the extent to which the social meanings and practices that make up life in school may be seen as producing relational forms of masculinity and femininity. In exploring these issues, ...

The first person is a sixteen year-old Caucasian girl. She is very tall and thin. She has bright orange medium length hair, wears black jeans and a lace see-through shirt. You can see her bra, which is black. She is also wearing converse all star black sneakers. She has a black hat on her head and her nail polish is also black. Her makeup is discrete. As for jewelry, there is a silver bracelet on her right wrist.

I believe that she wants to be treated like an individual and that her style is eccentric. I don't know what her personality is ...

Throughout Clarice Lispector’s novella, The Hour of the Star, colors and sounds are used to convey a feeling or message. The story is a very sad story about a young misfortunate girl from North-east Brazil who is suffering from tuberculosis. The story is told through the perspective of a male writer who is struggling with the young girl’s suffering. Lispector used an array of colors and sounds to entice emotion from the reader. This use of colors and sounds were both well-developed elements in the book, and these elements will be discussed throughout this essay. The primary sound “bang” was ...

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2: THE X SCENE

Part one Dusk. Pounding sound of heavy rain. Fully dressed, X lies on the bed, gazing at the ceiling. After a moment, X gets up slowly and walks to the dresser. She stares at the mirror, at the woman that she has become. With calculated but daring movement, she opens the drawer and stares at the black, hidden weapon. Almost immediately, with a reflex action that is forced by her emotions, she turns her eyes away and concentrates on making herself look good, just like instructed. With dignified movement, she opens the make-up drawer and selects what she thinks befits ...

Words alone can not adequately express the deep sense of gratitude that I have for my grand mother. My greatest affection for her and her influence on my personality dates back to a few decades ago when she used to pick me up from school while my parents were so engrossed to their jobs. I particularly treasure these memories because during that time, my grandmother used to work for a sewing company that used to specialize in the production of very beautiful curtains made of ribbons. In many occasions, my grandmother used to work from home. During those days, I ...

Introduction and Company Background

First of all, in the scope of this paper it is essential to refer to the background of the NARS Cosmetics - the business entity, which manufactures the cosmetics and the products for skin care. This business entity has been established by François Nars, who was photographer and make-up artist. The start up for this company was 12 lipsticks, which were offered to the customers at Barneys, New York. Since the beginning of the operational activity of this business entity, the set of multi-use beauty products has been developed. Fabien Baron has created the minimalist packaging and since ...

The use of make-up is a common thread throughout a variety of different cultures, although different cultures use make-up for a variety of different reasons. However, the ornamentation of one’s face and body for religious or social purposes is an action that is very common. Today, in the Western world, it is mostly common for women to wear make-up outside of certain specific events, like the theater; however, the reasons why women wear makeup seems to be varied based on age, race, and cultural identity. I. HISTORICAL USE OF MAKE-UP Make-up can be applied to all parts of the ...

Lipstick Jihad is a book written by Azadeh Moaveni and centered on revisiting the forgotten memories of the Iranian. In this book, Azadeh Moaveni is presented as the daughter of immigrants from Iranians who was initially born in California just three years before Islamic Revolution began. Moaveni is portrayed as a memoir of Iranian growing up in America and thus American in Iran is her only account of how her childhood would have been if she grew up in her homeland (Moaveni 7). She moves back to Iran in her quest to search for her Iranian identity. According to this ...

Azadeh Moaveni’s literary work, Lipstick Jihad, is a mirror image of the underground youth culture which prevails in the land of Tehran in response to the hard-line restrictions of the religious helms. She interprets it as a form of jihad or religious war with these conservatives who constrict the society with their directives. She is outraged by the moral policing of the authority and is taken aback by the cynic resignation of her companions who live back there. The author delves deep into the gazillion restrictions which are placed on the women folk of the society in Iran. The work ...

Presentation and Analysis of Ann Petry’s ‘Like a Winding Sheet’ – ‘Presentation and Analysis of the main character’s, Johnson’s, portrait – Depiction of his emotional and physical reactions and outburst and interpretation of the causes provoking them – How justifiable are his actions? [The author’s name]

Abstract

This paper will present you with an analysis of a man’s portrait and psychological profile. This man is called Johnson and he is the main leading character in Ann Petry’s short story ‘Like a winding sheet’. The essay will depict the emotional and physical reactions of Johnson as performed during the plot ...

- Biographical Information Ann Petry was born in 1908 in the state of Connecticut. She was among the first African American women authors in the United States. Petry was born of a poor black family. It was not until she was a bit older that her family was able to attain some economic stability. Her father was a pharmacist while her mother engaged in business. Being from the minority, Petry experienced different elements of racism and discrimination in her own society. In her article “My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience” which was published in 1946, Petry explains some of the incidences ...

Economic Recession and consumer behavior surround the "lipstick effect"

In the times of recession the consumer behavior also changes and especially for women the change can be observed as women cut their luxury spending from buying expensive bags and clothes and using the saved up money on lipsticks etc. It further establishes the point that women might spend more on beauty products in times of recession due to the reason that there are fewer financially strong men in the society. All these points gather up to a common hypothesis which can be stated as “Economic Recession and consumer behavior surround the lipstick effect”. Lipstick effect can be termed as a ...

After reading “Wound in the Face” by Angela Carter I will never apply lipstick or lip gloss to my lips, without considering the deeper issues that Carter raises in what appears, at first, to be an essay which merely comments on the changing styles of women’s cosmetics (and specifically lipstick) in the decades of the twentieth century. She starts her essay by examining the faces of models in adverts taken from magazines of the 1070s and has a strong response to the vogue in cosmetics: “It scares me” (Carter, 142) – and the rest of the essay explores the reasons for ...

Introduction

Feminism is the philosophy of believing that women have equal rights on political, social, sexual, intellectual and economic rights as men. This entails philosophies, doctrines, theories and movements that concern and try to fight the oppression of the women. Women in the past have rose against their oppression of not being given equal rights as to their counterparts, the men. From the time of the cave man, women have been considered to be the inferior sex, being given roles of lesser value compared to the men. Women were considered to be caretakers of families. They were to stay home, ...

Geek Chic: Smart Women in Popular Culture

The book, Geek Chic focuses on how women fit in the culture of the society by being smart (Sherie 2007). It has been divided into various chapters but our focus will be on only four chapters. These chapters are the introduction, lab coats and lipstick, you can see things that other people don’t and pretty smart.

Chapter 1: Introduction

The introduction chapter of this book focuses on the intelligence of the people living in a society and also gender. It also focuses on the actions of media regarding women and fashion. The media has been attributed to making girls more attractive. The ...

The Postman Always Rings Twice

“The Postman Always Rings Twice” is a novel set in 1934 and is authored by James M. Cain (Hoopes 13). The novel was fairly successful but not of good reputation among publication houses and was considered as one of the most significant crime novels of the 20th century. Gripping and concise (not more than 120 pages long), the novel's combines sexuality and violent behavior which was astounding at that time. However it resulted in the book getting banned in Boston. However, its startling theme has earned the book a rank in Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (Modern Library 98). The ...