A new critical object from Tanic Nakpresha and Alizarin Zroob is A makeup box counting the time accumulated applying makeup and compares it to the time necessary to accomplish life goals.

Topic: Beauty Standards
Attribute: Time
Mood: Harsh
Device: Statistical facts

With the beauty industry pushing us spending more time and more money on obeying to arbitrary beauty standards, the actual accomplishments that represent actual success are being pushed aside. Intelligence and education, health and fitness, and basic commodities such as housing, cellphones and avocados.

Studies found that average women spend 2 years of their lives wearing makeup, and nearly $200,000.

This original critical makeup box is equipped with a clock that counts the time spent wearing makeup, and compares it to some major life goals that could have been achieved with that time.

Grooming is not a gender-specific issue

Making of

The chosen mechanism included a Mkr1000 micro controller, servo motor, and an LED stripe with 25 LEDs. Since the micro controller allows asynchronous communication, the movement of the clock hand and of the LED pointer is coded alternately.

Makeup Takes Forever Box was created for Pedro Oliveira’s class Critical Objects at ITP.