Inspired by a Huffington Post article about the importance of wearing makeup to work, an Indonesian beauty blogger set out to determine just how much ‘putting your face on’ influences other people’s perceptions.
Known as Francesa, the young woman took a fresh-faced snap of herself and uploaded it to Photofeeler, a website that invites strangers to assess you on various criteria based purely on your photograph.
She then did it again, but this time she digitally tweaked the image to appear as if she was wearing a light coat of makeup.
“The only difference I made is to add a bit of colour to my lips and cheeks, darkened my brows, evened out my skin tone & got rid of my spots, and added a winged liner,” she explained on her blog, Working With Monolids. “So nothing drastic, but probably about 30-45min of work IRL (1h if I’m breaking out really badly).”