The Difference Between These Two Photos Highlights a Debate

''An Indonesian blogger is gaining attention on social media for a revealing experiment involving people's perceptions of women wearing makeup.

Inspired by a Huffington Post experiment, a blogger who calls herself Francesca shared side-by-side portraits of herself on the website PhotoFeeler to see how others would rank her potential based on images of her with and without makeup on.

Though this was by no means a comprehensive study, and different countries have different beauty standards, the results were telling: People ranked her capabilities and personality traits higher in every way in the picture where she appears to be wearing makeup...''

by Laura Donovan