#NoMakeup Fail, Photosynthetic Frogs, Why Atoms Don’t Collapse
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Learn why the #NoMakeup movement actually drove more makeup sales; photosynthetic frogs; and why atoms don’t collapse.
The #nomakeup movement is linked to a rise in makeup sales -- here's why by Steffie Drucker
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- Smith, R. K., Yazdani, E., Wang, P., Soleymani, S., & Ton, L. A. N. (2021). The cost of looking natural: Why the no-makeup movement may fail to discourage cosmetic use. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-021-00801-2
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Scientists made photosynthetic frogs by Cameron Duke
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Why don't atoms collapse by Ashley Hamer (Listener question from Joseph in Denver, Colorado)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.8 | Discovery. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why the |
| 0:08.7 | hashtag no-make-up movement is actually leading to more makeup sales and why scientists made |
| 0:14.4 | photosynthetic frogs. We'll also answer a listener question about why atoms |
| 0:18.4 | don't collapse. Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:22.6 | They say that beauty is only skin deep. |
| 0:25.8 | Well, a new study found that the same is true of the hashtag no makeup movement, which |
| 0:30.8 | encouraged women to reject cosmetics and embrace their quote-unquote natural beauty. |
| 0:36.0 | Instead, it kind of did the opposite. |
| 0:39.0 | So if you're not familiar, the No Makeup campaign began in 2009, but rose to a fever pitch in 2016. |
| 0:47.2 | That was when Alicia Keys declared that she'd be going Make Up Free. |
| 0:51.4 | At the time, she said she didn't want to quote-unquote cover up free. At the time she said she didn't want to quote unquote cover up anymore and |
| 0:54.8 | last year she told Glamour UK she'd become addicted to makeup. But Keys |
| 1:00.0 | Revolution isn't quite what it seems. Her makeup artist admitted to |
| 1:04.8 | enhancing her freckles with product and even applying individual false |
| 1:08.6 | lashes to fill in her brows. That's a lot of work for a look that's supposed to be effortless. |
| 1:15.0 | And according to research, it's effort, or lack thereof, that colors how people judge a person's beauty. |
| 1:23.0 | Scientists from the University of Georgia confirmed this by having 633 participants |
| 1:28.8 | judged the attractiveness of a woman's selfie. |
| 1:32.1 | The photo stayed the same across conditions, but the caption changed. |
| 1:36.7 | One group saw a caption in which she said she was wearing makeup, and another group saw a caption stating |
| 1:42.0 | she wasn't. A control group saw a caption stating she wasn't. |
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