Engaging and informative, All Made Up will expand the discussion around what it means to participate in creating your own self-image. This book also holds space for complicating factors, especially the ways that beauty standards differ across race, class, and culture. Rae Nudson is the author of All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian, which uses historical examples to. Johnson, Rae Nudson unpacks makeup's cultural impact-including how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and when it can be used for safety, and its function in the workplace, to name a few examples.Įvery woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, and consciously or unconsciously, every woman knows that the choice is never entirely hers to make. Through the stories of famous women like Cleopatra, Empress Wu, Madam C. Ranging across time and place, All Made Up shows how makeup contributes to and reinforces social definitions of gender and race, even as it has been a tool of creativity and subversion. Increasingly, people of all genders are wrestling with what it means to be a woman living in a patriarchy, and part of that is how looking like a woman-whatever that means-affects people's real lives. South China Post With sharp observations and insight, Rae Nudson explores the significance of makeup in our lives, culture, and politics. There is a history and a cultural significance that comes with wearing cat-eye-inspired liner or a bold red lip, one that many women feel to this day, even if we don't realize exactly why. A fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) their roles in society, and why we all need to care

All Made Up by Rae Nudson