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BEAUTY IN MOVIES: WHEN CINEMA MEETS BEAUTY ROUTINES
Beauty. Beautifulness. Personality. Uniqueness. Acceptance. Expression. Art. A tangle of words that unfolds to the rhythm of mental associations, those that arise spontaneously when brainstorming the concept of aesthetic care. Just like fashion, beauty, as well, is a manifestation of our ego, a reflection of the nature, personality, passions, and beliefs of us, who make a flag of our inner reality out of our body. Beauty is a manifesto of our uniqueness, the extension of our personality, artistic and healing work on ourselves. Some people say that “hair and makeup” is a mere act of vanity, a shallow operation aimed at changing the image of ourselves into the one we want people to see. It’s a debatable point of view. Beauty is a much deeper concept, it’s the art of cultivating the beautifulness that’s within us in every way it manifests itself, in all the dimensions where it’s hidden; beauty is fishing out our buried, beautiful selves and nurturing them, guiding them while they emerge, bloom and become our essence and our calling cards.To get more news about Night and Night Boutique Navigation, you can visit our official website.
Beauty moments are rituals, almost mystical, almost magical: they’re pieces of time in which we pause our most frenetic everyday thoughts that, whether nice or unpleasant, pop in and out of our heads and put our brains in motion at a stressing, unhealthy speed, potentially harmful for our whole organism. During these ritual and spiritual moments, through a series of actions, mixed with lotions, powders, fragrances, as though bewitched, we stop our real time and enter our own, personal, dimension, where it’s time to focus on ourselves, our physical and mental well-being. Thus, our beautiful selves can emerge, and we, back on Earth, do feel healed, defined. We’ve taken good care of ourselves, so to take better care of the rest.
Cases where beauty is experimentation, cases where beauty is an expression, cases where beauty is preliminary, cases where beauty is transformation: a wide range of uses and applications for a widely represented concept within the scene of the celebration of the beauty that is cinema. The makeup and hair of a character are part of the fabric of its profile and necessary to it, an extension of their personality and motive for their deeds, as much as the path through which they get to certain specific aesthetic results. Just think of Patrick Bateman’s (Christian Bale) famous “skincare routine” in “American Psycho.”
An eloquent ritual, that is enough to describe the character, a detail congruent with his nature. In the famous morning routine scene, where Bateman introduces himself and accurately describes every single step of his beauty ritual, naming the products he uses one by one, and performing each step as if it were a video tutorial. In his rich and splendidly furnished house, between the bedroom, the living room, and the shower, Patrick honors his faith in personal care and “a balanced diet and rigorous exercise routine,” outlining the first traits of the profile of a strong character, who will soon turn out to be an obsessive and psychotic man. The high point of the morning routine scene is the removal process of the exfoliating face mask, performed by Bateman with maniacal accuracy, almost like he’s getting rid of a skin layer, almost like he’s tearing his own face; not surprisingly, in that very moment, standing in front of the mirror, he confesses: “There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman. Some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me. Only an entity. Something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours, […] I simply am not there.”
Played by an extraordinary Julienne Moore, Charlotte is an exhausted woman, drained out by her past experience, a tough woman, sassy, sensual, self-confident, but also devastated and tired; all these traits are highlighted and efficiently expressed through a bold and heavy makeup: eyelids decorated with thick, black kajal strokes, 1960s style, matched with bouncy, elaborate hairstyles. The sequences of close-ups show us her makeup looks and hair in detail as if they were essential threads of the film’s texture. In fact, they are.
An example of beauty rituals as means of disguise or dissimulation (of a bad mood) is Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding in “I, Tonya,” the biopic about the real-life story of the famous former figure skater. |
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