In Praise of Make-Up: From Cosmos to Cosmetics

By Camille Saint-Jacques

Why do women wear make-up? Their answers are often evasive: "To feel good? Could they stop wearing make-up? "No " The idea of no longer wearing make-up can even be perceived as an attack on identity.In an elegant, luminous style, the author plunges us into a history of make-up that demonstrates the importance of the cosmetic gesture since human beings became civilized. "S'arranger" is an art of compromise, of openness, a benevolent game rather than a deceptive artifice. Behind a lipstick or mascara, there's a whole way of being, more nuanced, more enchanted, less violent than that of men.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2315012724
• ISBN13: 9782315012725
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Max Milo Editions
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.1"