Wearing More of This Will Get You Respect Up the Career Ladder
As a graduate of HBCU Hampton University, my Alma mater led me up the steps to success. They not only taught proper business etiquette, but they enforced appropriate dress code such as wearing panty hose with skirt suits, no perfume, minimal makeup, and wearing limited jewelry when in the workplace and going on job interviews.
But according to a New York Times recent study, if you want more respect, trust, and affection from your coworkers, then you need to wear more makeup. Makeup “increases people’s perceptions of a woman’s likability, her competence, and (provided she doesn’t pile it on like Lady Gaga) her trustworthiness.
The study, paid for by Proctor & Gamble, which sells Cover Girl and Dolce & Gabbana makeup, included 25 female subjects aged 20 to 50, who were White, African American, and Hispanic. They were all photographed bare faced and in three looks the researchers called natural, professional, and glamorous.
A total of 149 adults (including 61 men) judged the pictures and came to the conclusion that women who were more made up were more competent than barefaced women, whether they had a quick glance or a longer inspection.
Dr. Sarah Vickery, whose Ph.D. is in chemistry, added that cosmetics “can significantly change how people see you, how smart people think you are on first impression, or how warm and approachable, and that look is completely within a woman’s control, when there are so many things you cannot control.”
We get that first impressions are important. Initially all a stranger has to go off of is looks before they even have a conversation with you, but is it entirely true that made up women are more competent than women who prefer to wear less makeup?
Do you think the quality of your skill sets and job performance should be based on the color of your lipstick or the mascara that makes your eyes stand out? Voice your opinion.
