What do u think bout make up?

Wearing make-up as teenagers’ life style in modern era

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen. Honorable the adjudicators, and all of audience. I’m Christina from SMA Fr. Don Bosco Banjarmasin. And in this occasion I will deliver a speech about wearing make-up as teenagers’ life style in modern era.

Ladies and Gentlemen, if we spent a little time to take a look at our society, we will find many bad things around it. Especially in the sight of teenagers life style in this modern era. Talking about teenagers’ life style, I’m sure we all have known that the lifestyle in this modern era is totally different with the lifestyle in the past. The progress of technology and the social development have made many teenagers act much more than how they should be.

One of the lifestyle which is really glamour is the using of make-up around teenage girls in the society. In our daily life, we often see many teenage girls using make-up. It may  in high school, university, department store, and etc. well it seems like wearing make-up has been a common habit for teenagers. Based on the survey result of Biosen Institute, we could find that most of teenage girls use about 13 kinds of cosmetics every day. Like perfume, lipstick, mascara, nail polish, and etc. what an amazing result that 13 years old girls are also included in it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we know that actually the using of make-up in early age can give bad effect to the girls themselves. It’s not only for the girl physical health, but it also influence the girl mindset in long time.

Most of girls who used to wear make-up, never think seriously about the effect of cosmetics, as long as they can use the cosmetic correctly. But we should know that cosmetics absolutely contain many chemical ingredients. According to the survey result, cosmetics contain up to 515 chemical ingredients, like in perfume, lipstick, mascara, and etc. Most of these chemical ingredients are dangerous for our health. For example parabens in cosmetics can cause breast cancer. Chemical ingredients in cosmetic can also cause skin diseases, infertility, liver cancer, and etc. Thus, we can conclude that somehow the use of excessive make-up in daily live can cause health problem in long time. Because of course our skin can absorb the chemical ingredients that contained in cosmetics.

Besides, cosmetic can also influences the mindset of girls. Why? Well we can’t deny that all girls want to look beautiful. And of course we know that cosmetics always make girls beautiful. Even the worst part of someone’s face can be gorgeous because of cosmetics. That’s why most of girls do not feel confidence without wearing make-up. They’re not sure with their pure beauty, then they start being busy with cosmetics. Cosmetics can increase the self-confidence of someone, but if it happens continuously, someday when the girl doesn’t wear make-up, she will feel so bad and ugly. It means that at last, cosmetics can influence the psychological of the girl. The result of a survey said that make-up can influence girls’ mindset to be more mature. By wearing make-up, even a 13 years old girl will be treated like a woman. And in long time, this kind of treatment will influence the girl mindset, to be more mature than her real age.

Knowing that using make-up can give many bad effects to teenagers. It means we should find the solution to overcome this lifestyle. So how to overcome the lifestyle of wearing make-up for teenagers? Here I have some efforts to minimalist the using of make-up for teenagers :

1.             School institution should give strict punishment for those students who use excessive make-up. It will encourage the students not to use make-up in school,  and at last it will decrease the frequency of make-up using for teenagers.

2.             Parents should give extra attention to their daughters/ they should often check their daughter’s room, in order to avoid the excessive use of make-up.

3.             Parents should often encourage their daughters to focus on studying in school and home. Since the main duty of student is to study, so as students they don’t need to use make-up, except in a special occasion.

4.             In social life, the teenage community in each region should be given socialization about the use of make-up for teenagers. This socialization especially refers to the urban citizens.

At last what I want to say is that we need support from all institutions, to control the social development around the teenagers. The teenagers as our next generation should be controlled as well as possible to build a better country and society.