READ: Skim/read/consume at 10-20 items about your topic (news items, blog posts, newspaper/magazine articles, editorials, Wikipedia entries, paper abstracts, videos, new media, book reviews, web pages, etc.)—please choose a variety of genres.
This isn’t research; it’s reading. Get an idea of the nature of the topic, relevant history, related issues, past/current discussions, points of interest, areas of agreement/disagreement, etc. Your goal is to get an idea of what’s “out there” and gauge your knowledge about (and interest in) the topic.
WRITE: A summary of what you found—not everything—but a summary of the conversation. Who is talking? Where? How? In what ways? Please include a few links and/or titles of particularly interesting or representative texts and find/mention at least one scholarly/academic text.
Additional Notes:
- Please write a sentence or two before your summary that identifies your topic/subject.
- You should aim to write ~400-600 words (but more is fine if you have more to say!)
- Post before class time on Wednesday, 9/14.
My topic is mainly about makeup in general, the good, the bad, and the downright ugly.
For my topic I was able to find a lot of youtube videos pertaining to makeup. The different types of makeup, the different application styles of makeup, and the different usage for makeup. One of my favorite makeup artist that I enjoy watching on YouTube is Kandee Johnson. She is able to make makeup tutorials for people that may not ever wear makeup. She does every day looks, Halloween, special occasion, cartoon inspired, you name it, she does it. She also has a lot of beauty hacks that anyone can benefit from. She makes video about product/clothing hauls. Hauls, are when people go out and buy several or more of their favorite items that they like on an everyday basis or that they liked at the time of shopping. My other favorite makeup artist that I enjoy watching and reading about is Jeffree Star. He is a popular internet sensation who became famous off of myspace for his overall look and his music. He is amazing at makeup and is also a role model for the LGBTQ community. He makes “haul” videos as well as makeup tutorials and his “monthly favorites”. Monthly favorites is exactly what you think it is. It is the blogger/vlogger’s (video blogger) favorite makeup or product that month. I find all of this vlogging and blogging about makeup and ways to apply makeup interesting in the sense that it is constantly evolving.
Mind you, these are two completely different people in the sense of how they portray themselves, who they are, their interests, and overall their language..
Just be prepared!
Here is a link for one of Kandee Johnson’s vids
And here is a link for Jeffree Star’s makeup vid