Marxism Taught Me How to Do My Makeup
It sounds absurd—until you realize how deeply dialectics can guide daily life. Even something as surface-level as makeup.
Step one: understand the two-point theory. All makeup revolves around two core actions: concealing (foundation, corrector) and enhancing (brows, liner, lips). Both matter. Skip one, the balance collapses. That’s materialist duality in action.
Next, epistemology. You watch endless tutorials, test styles, fail, refine, repeat—eventually discovering what works for your face. That’s the “practice → understanding → refined practice” spiral. If you master enough data, you might even achieve makeup “essence”—just ask Mao Geping.
Finally, dialectics. Good makeup isn’t maximalist or minimalist—it’s calibrated. Go too heavy in a formal setting, you break social context. Go too light, you lose impact. Great style lives in the tension between extremes.
Maybe Marx didn’t invent blush—but he might’ve helped you understand why it works.
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