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8. Why do we wear make-up?

Why Do We Do That?

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The Effect of Age on Face Contrast

The older you are, the less contrast there is around your facial features. Having some form of decoration of the face and body is one of the things that's been proposed as a human universal. As we get older, the contrast in our face decreases around our eyebrows, around our eyes and around our lips.

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