浓妆要是艳抹？

    女人爱美是天性！女人的化妆品就像是一个五彩缤纷的神奇世界，因为它们可以在一定程度上隐藏一个人的年龄，可以帮助她们提升气质，获得更多的眼光和关注。但是化妆需要有一定的“度”。浓妆艳抹要看是不是有这个需要，不要把化妆理解为就是浓妆艳抹。

   据调查，一个人的妆容形象很容易导致他人对其能力和性格的判断，如果你想给别人留下好印象，那就请你注意自己的妆容。根据具体的场合做出具体的妆容调整，由内而外的魅力才是更持久，更自然的。期待每一个女人更美丽，更真实的自我！

As many women can testify, there's a fine line between pretty and scary when it comes to make-up.

Now, scientists have shown that not only does the right amount of cosmetics make all the difference when it comes to beauty, but it also affects judgements of competence and trustworthiness.

For all of their positive effects on looking and feeling good, large amounts of make-up soon start to negatively impact on the way people perceive an individual's honesty.

In the study, funded by Procter & Gamble, scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston University and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute asked participants to rate various looks in terms of competence, likeability, attractiveness and trustworthiness.

Pictures of women wearing no make-up, and looking 'natural', 'professional,' and 'glamorous,' were shown to volunteers for different lengths of time.

When shown the images for just 250milliseconds, all ratings went up with the amount of make-up, says the report, published by Plosone.org.

However, when study participants were allowed to take in the pictures at length, the results changed significantly.

Nancy Etcoff, the study's lead author and associate researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital told ABC news that 'we found that when faces were shown very quickly, all ratings went up with cosmetics in all different looks.'

'The women were judged as more competent, likeable, attractive and trustworthy.'

Given more than just a glimpse of the images, participants showed that beauty and competence went up, but trustworthiness - or honesty - soon suffered as cosmetic looks became heavier.

'When they got to the more dramatic make-up looks, people saw them as equally likeable and much more attractive and competent, but less trustworthy,' comments Etcoff to the news site.