Lipstick in the Time of Corona: Psychosocial Musings

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Title

Lipstick in the Time of Corona: Psychosocial Musings

Subject

Self-Confidence
Lipstick
Feminism
Lipstick Effect
Self-Esteem
Body Image
COVID-19

Description

This article is a psycho-social musing regarding the importance of lipstick as an item of makeup at a time when its primary area of usage, the face, has been covered due to demands of health and safety as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Being a musing, the article does not follow any strict methodology and has been written based only on certain day-to-today observations. By looking at the continued sale of lipsticks on online platforms and the ideas regarding its importance and usage as explicated by online beauty personalities, this paper tries to understand the importance of lipstick as a tool of women’s self-esteem, body image, self-confidence, emancipation, beautification as well as a symbol of consumerism in the current times when it cannot be flaunted due to the face masks. By using theories of feminism, especially post-structural feminism, consumerism and psychological theories such as those related to self-esteem and defence mechanism, the article has tried to put forward a psychosocial explanation of the use of lipsticks in the pandemic times.

Creator

Ghoshal, Rikhia
Joma Job, Ann

Source

Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 21 No. 2 (2022): Artha Journal of Social Sciences
0000-0000
0975-329X

Publisher

Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore

Date

2022-10-31

Rights

Copyright (c) 2022 Artha Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Relation

Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

Type

info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
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Identifier

Citation

Rikhia Ghoshal and Joma Job, Ann, Lipstick in the Time of Corona: Psychosocial Musings, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2022, accessed November 21, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/555

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