Cosmetic Girls

Teenage girls’ make-up is a means to reveal the femininity that they desire to be, and yet at the same time, it is a defensive tool to hide the unstable identity. Subsequently, I believe their identities are not within them, but on their cosmetic façade. With ‘Cosmetic Girls’, I casted 518 girls on the streets and 138 of them visited my studio and were photographed with their self-made make-up style. Through the documentation of these portraits like social report, I tried to reveal teenage girls’ unstable identity that are influenced by rapidly developed entertainment media in Korean society past 10 years.