Blog 23: Exit Interview

Content:

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

My essential question is How does Makeup affect public perception. My answers are social media, how makeup companies decided to advertise and the general publics view of makeup. Between all three I would have to say that my last answer is my best answer, the general public view of makeup, because  it has all the concluding points that are really necessary for answering my EQ.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

When writing my finding three I realized that this answer gave me more details and time to focus on the "beauty" standard in our society and how it affects everyone (no matter the time frame it has always been there).  This answer was the one I was most interested in writing about because it even surprised me how deeply people are affected by this allusion.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
I feel the only problem I faced was coming up with a third answer. I didn't know what else I could talk or address in a third answer but as I began writing my other two findings then that's when it clicked to me. So I proceeded to write about how the public views it over all. It made sense to have that as one of my answers because my EQ does focus on how does makeup affects public perception and why not talk about the public views that are out there.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

A general source I would have to say is YouTube because it provided so many videos that covered a lot of what I focused on throughout my senior project. But if I had to choose a single video on YouTube I would choose Oprahs Light Girls documentary that talked about the skin color issue girls faced (being too dark or to light and turning to tanning beds or skin lightning creams) because it should me a different side of the "beauty" standard from another POV that I wouldn't know about. There's a lot that goes into understanding the beauty standard so it definitely helped my answer 3.
The New York Time was also another great source for my project since I found several articles that talked about the professionalism makeup plays in the work force and how people view it.