Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Made Up, a body of paintings, expresses my love/loathe relationship with the beauty/fashion industries and the fantasy/deception they instill. Aging amplifies my fear of being rejected or invisible and is assuaged by being made-up. Pages torn from fashion layouts are manually distressed to become the visually striking crumpled images that are the basis for my painting. The wrinkled nature of my source communicates my frustration with aging and never being able to meet the standards of modern beauty ideals. My careful repainting of the disfiguration demonstrates my desire to intimately repair and own the image. In taking my power back through painting, the defiled magazine spread becomes a layout of my ability and power as a painter to create and control the illusion. Paint enables me to accept myself through the virtuosity of its application, scale, and in the resulting illusion, in which cathartic moments of subversive humor play out. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2009. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. Thesis advisor: Richard A. Walter.

This dissertation analyzes visual representations of Canadian women war workers during the Second World War, examining the intersections of labour, gender, beauty culture, bodies, media, consumer culture, advertising, class, whiteness, and sexuality featured in these images. It argues that without considering each of these themes, it is impossible to fully understand wartime representations of women workers. In examining these intersections, the dissertation highlights the power of visual representations and demonstrates the key roles of beauty culture and heterosexuality in munitions plants. By comparing images of women war workers in nationally-circulated magazines and advertisements, locally-produced newsletters from three southern Ontario war plants, archival photos, and newspaper coverage of the Miss War Worker beauty contest, this study shows that the beautiful woman war worker was a visual icon who symbolized the tensions, worries, and hopes around labour, beauty, and femininity, in wartime as well as in the postwar period, when war workers’ presumed next step into white motherhood was of particular importance to the national project. Women workers were constantly encouraged and pressured to engage with beauty culture and participate in self-fashioning. Probing the relationship between how war workers were depicted and what they experienced points to the power of images as well as the opportunities women had to exercise agency by pushing back against visual ideals as well as by emulating them. / Graduate / 2017-08-29

This study identified the skills necessary to successfully complete the beauty culture program of Alberta. The (Alberta) beauty culture teachers (N =40) were surveyed, with their responses being used to assess the perceived skills. The instument, a 41 item survey, was established through the use of a Delphi panel to establish content validity. The reliability was calculated by using the Hoyt-Stunkard analysis of variance technique. The instrument's reliability showed a +0.95 level of internal consistency. The means for the items ranged from a high of 5.85 (an affective skill) to a low of 4.12 (a cognitive skill). All items indicated a need to retain the existing beauty culture competencies. The items were divided into three taxonomies; namely, cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. This was done to inform the respondent of the nature of the tasks. All three of the affective skills ranked in the highest frequency group, with two of the items being placed in the first and second spot. R-mode factor analysis was used to group the items into clusters according to the respondents' ratings on the six-point scale. With the initial loading set at 0.50, only one task was found to be spurious. Seventeen clusters (factors) were produced and were spread across affective, cognitive, and psychomotor skill areas. Skills involving manipulative procedures varied in importance levels. Technologically advanced methods of achieving cosmetology outcomes were not considered as important as the learning of basic tasks. This indicated a need to teach only the basics in preparation for completion of the beauty culture program in Alberta. / Graduation date: 1993

"The Makeover and Other Consumerist Narratives" is an interdisciplinary work in both approach and scope, and reads the construction of feminine desire and identity through what is popularly known as the makeover. Bringing together such diverse areas as film, literature, women's magazines, psychoanalysis, historical analysis and cultural theory, this research is particularly concerned with visual communications media (mostly film and advertising) and spectatorship. Of central import is the relationship of consumerism to feminine identity, desire, and the historical emergence of popular entertainments aimed directly at women. / The narrative of the makeover---so prevalent in women's magazines and advertising---works to effectively orient women's desires in a consumerist direction through product promotion and self-commodification. In addition, the makeover is explored in terms of how it might be seen to provide a model by which to understand the workings of late consumer capitalism as a whole. From an excavation of the official commodity-oriented origins of the makeover in the history of women's magazines, the project then moves through a reading of several print advertisements and the phenomenon of the consumer tie-in, and finally to what I call the "Transformation Film." Questions of narrative, desire and class are key here, especially insofar as these films make explicit the connection between self-transformation, commodity consumption, feminine desire and the promise of identity in consumer culture. / At issue is the peculiar problematic of feminine desire as negotiated by Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, as well as the historical implications of female identity as explainable by Marxian commodity theory. It is only by means of examining the objects which cater to feminine desire that we may be able to understand this "culture of the makeover" and women's identity therein.

Diss. Linköping : Linköpings universitet, 2005.

Orientador: Marcos Antonio Corrêa / Coorientador: Hérida Regina Nunes Salgado / Banca: Gislaine Ricci Leonardi / Banca: André Rolim Baby / Banca: Marlus Chorilli / Banca: Vera Lucia Borges Isaac / Resumo: Os compostos fenólicos ocorrem de maneira universal no reino vegetal, sendo os ácidos cinâmicos integrantes desse grupo de compostos orgânicos. O ácido cafeico (AC) é um representante, com potente ação antioxidante, prevenindo o envelhecimento precoce da pele. As clássicas emulsões são muito utilizadas pelo consumidor pelo sensorial agradável e refrescante que proporcionam; no entanto, preparações desenvolvidas na forma de filme ou película seca apresentam-se como uma alternativa tecnológica pela sua facilidade e segurança no transporte. Para vencer a barreira cutânea, sistemas micro e nanoestruturados têm sido desenvolvidos, a fim de facilitar a entrega de ativos disponibilizando-os ao tecido por um período de tempo prolongado, sem causar danos ou toxicidade. O objetivo deste trabalho foi a avaliação exploratória das atividades antioxidante e antimicrobiana do AC a fim de utiliza-lo como um ativo multifuncional veiculado em micropartículas (MP) de quitosana. Assim, foi determinada a atividade antioxidante e antimicrobiana do ácido cafeico. Em seguida, dois tipos de micropartículas de quitosana contendo AC foram obtidas por spray drying. As oriundas de solução hidroalcoólica, denominadas MPI, e as oriundas de solução aquosa, denominadas MPII. As MPs foram caracterizadas físico-quimicamente e incorporadas em uma emulsão e uma preparação cosmética em filme. Por fim foi avaliado o perfil de liberação, permeação in vitro das micropartículas de AC a partir da emulsão e do filme. O... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Phenolic compounds occur universally in the plant kingdom, with cinnamic acids being part of this group of organic compounds. Caffeic acid (CA) is one representative, with potent antioxidant action, preventing the premature aging of the skin. The classic emulsions are widely used by the consumer for the pleasant and refreshing sensory they provide, however, preparations developed in the form of dry film present themselves as a technological alternative for their ease and safety in transportation. To overcome the cutaneous barrier, micro and nanostructured systems have been developed to facilitate the delivery of substances by making them available to the tissue for an extended period of time, without causing damage or toxicity. The objective of this work was the exploratory evaluation of the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of CA in order to use it as a multifunctional active carried in microparticles (MP) of chitosan. Thus, the chitosan microparticles containing CA were obtained by spray drying and physico-chemically characterized, and then they were incorporated into an emulsion and a cosmetic preparation on film. The antimicrobial and antioxidant activity of caffeic acid was determined and the profile of the release, permeation and in vitro retention of the microparticles of CA from the emulsion and the film were evaluated. The antioxidant activity values of CA were similar to the standards in all tests. In addition, CA showed higher antioxidant activity than ascorbic acid and trolox, and has the advantage of being more stable than ascorbic acid and extracted from natural sources when compared to trolox. The present study showed that caffeic acid has antimicrobial activity against S. aureus, S. epidermidis, E. coli, P. aeruginosa and P. acnes with... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

MENVSC / Department of Hydrology and Water Resources / Africa is endowed with various earthy materials, of which each community is uniquely identified. Inspite of the vast knowledge of western cosmetics, application of traditionally used cosmetics have been in existence and will be into practice from generation to generation, this is as a result of their various indigenous knowledge about traditional cosmetics. They are mostly applied during traditional rites and festive periods. Occasionally, earthy materials play a vital role in traditionally used cosmetics. Different reasons have been associated with the use of these earthy materials, they are: for skin cleansing, protection against ultra violet radiation, skin lightening, perfecting the distorted part of the skin and improving beauty. This study is focused on the physico-chemical, chemical and mineralogical characterisation of earthy materials indigenously used as cosmetics. This is achieved firstly by identifying the various earthy materials applied topically as well as their constituents. Samples for this study were obtained from six (6) different African countries namely: Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, South Africa and Swaziland and were subjected to the following analyses: Scanning Electron Microscope and Electron Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy for the morphology and elemental analysis, hydrometer method for the determination of particle sizes of each sample and a texture Auto Lookup Software Package (TAL Version 4.2) for the classification of their various textures (%clay, %sand and %silt). The X-ray diffractometry was applied for the identification of their mineral phases (secondary, major and minor). The Brunauer Emmett and Teller (BET) method was used for the physisorption analysis and classifying them according to their isotherm types (Type I, II, III, IV, V and VI). The chemical analysis was achieved by X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The result revealed that the morphology of the various representative samples varies, except CMR 1; 2, SCC 1; 2 and SLW 1; 2 which showed same structure and same elemental constituents, their resemblance indicated that they possess same geological formation. The XRF result indicated the presence of the following trace elements: Al, As, Au, Ba, Bi, Br, Ca, Cd, Ce, Cl, Co, Cr, Cs, Dy, Er, Eu, Fe, Ga, Gd, Ge, Hf, Hg, Ho, I, In, K, La, Lr, Lu, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Nd, Ni, Nb, Os, P, Pb, Pd, Pr, Pt, Re, Rh, Ru, S, Sc, Se, Sb, Si, Sm, Sn, Sr, Ta, Te, Tb, Th, Ti, U, V, W, Y, Yb, Zr and Zn, were measured in ppm. For example, Fe – 66.47 (Qwa-Qwa), Al – 4.64 (Swaziland), Si – 6.26 (Democratic Republic of Congo), Ti – 3.75 (Qwa-Qwa) and so on. From the particle size distribution analysis, some samples were identified to be clay (BTS 1, BTS 2, NG 1, SCC 4, SCC 5, SCC 9, SCC 11, SCC 12, SWL 1 and SWL 2) with their particle sizes < 2μm, whereas other samples showed other properties which are > 2 μm. Ten minerals were identified in the clay fraction samples: albite, goethite, halloysite, hematite, kaolinite (kaolinite-1Md, kaolinite 1) Mica (muscovite), sulphur, talc, chalcanthite and whewellite. The BET method vii for physical adsorption revealed that BTS 1, BTS 2, CMR 1, CMR 2, DRC A, DRC B, NG 1, NG 2, SWL 1, SWL 2, SCC 1, SCC 4, SCC 5, SCC 8, SCC 9, SCC 11 and SCC 12 countries possess Type II isotherm whereas samples from SCC 2, SCC 6, SCC 7 and SCC 10 had Type III isotherm. The physisorption analysis result also determined the various surface areas and porosity of each representative samples.