Abstract
Throughout the ages, cosmetic products are accustomed to building one’s feeling and make them additionally stunning. The process of beautifying oneself, goes back in history, as early as the 1500s. The uses of cosmetics continuing to grow and evolve over the years. By the late 1800s and early decency, cosmetic corporations had developed a wealth of recent product and created extra business for themselves. Despite the very fact that makeup had already been around for hundreds of years, it had been still primarily utilized by extremely subtle customers. Makeups produce positive changes in appearances and so enhance vanity. Once a woman is aware that she is being evaluated in her appearances, a major effort could also be seen so as to receive a feedback. The purpose of the study was to determine whether makeup is directly effective on a woman’s personal image of herself. Is makeup a necessity or a societal norm? This study has also conducted an exploratory research on a sample size of 200 respondents to study the emotional self-esteem of females.
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Goel, R., Sahai, S., Singh, G. (2020). Effect on the Emotional Self-Esteem of Women with Reference to Make-Up. In: Mohanty, S.N. (eds) Emotion and Information Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48849-9_5
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