I wanted this piece, “You should wear Makeup”, to make the portrait come across as uncomfortable. With the makeup brush being gamed into the side of their face, while not only painting on the entirely wrong shade of foundation, but by showing a hand using force to keep their face in place as a way of saying “There’s nothing that you can do about this”. Many people have succumbed to the fact that there are few makeup brands that create a wide variety of shade of foundation for people of color, which is somewhat of a standard throughout the makeup community. Brands that have been around for decades haven’t even made an effort to widen their varieties on the darker end of their foundation spectrum. While newer brands suchs as Rihana’s Fenty Beauty had foundations, concealers, and bronzers for the darkskin girls since the jump. Either way, I wanted this piece to make people stop, share their opinions, and ask the tough questions: Should we be conforming to what has become the standard? Should the people working in these industries be doing more to accommodate everyone? And most importantly, what is everyones opinion on the matter? Because at the end of the day, we all deserve to feel beautiful in our own skin.