The Makeover Trap Rhetorical Analysis

Imagine living in a world where receiving acceptance from strangers all around the world would make you feel “normal” and beautiful. Well, it’s not that hard to imagine when we are living right through it. With the high demand for social media and the followers, it is becoming a reality all over the world, not just in your neighborhood. The idea of being perfect has escalated to the point where people are going out of their way to spend thousands and even millions of dollars enhancing their features. Everywhere we look people are accepting the idea of physical change rather than inner change. Physical change seems to be the big trend in today’s society. In Michael Lovelock’s article “The Makeover Trap”, published in 2017 on AEON, Lovelock asserts

Even when no statistics are present, there is still come logos in the article. While reading the article, Lovelock describes each of his paragraphs very vividly. As he describes these paragraphs, readers are playing back in their head what society is like in terms of the “makeover trap”. Lovelock adds in that British journalist, Mark Simpson has coined the phrase “spronosexual”, which is the need to look like a mixture of a porn star and a sportsman. These young men flex and model on Instagram solely for the necessity of a like or a comment on their photo. The words that Lovelock uses stimulate feelings in the reader. He uses words such as narcissist, urged, criticism, authentic and many more. With the words that are constantly being read, it tends to make the readers feel some type of way. By using these words, the readers know and use their logic to determine what the outcome is going to be. When Lovelock says authentic the readers automatically start to reflect what is going on in Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. The way the author incorporates logos into this article is unique, he doesn’t just put it out there, you have to read into it. When you scroll down a photo on instagram and you see makeup guru’s, they all look the same, there isn’t such as an “authentic self” on social