Makeup Tutorials: A Rhetorical Analysis

Never underestimate the power of beauty. In today’s social media makeup tutorials have taken YouTube by storm. Makeup fans rely heavily on YouTube videos for almost everything they want to learn how to do. The majority of these makeup tutorials are funny, artistic and helpful to watch and learn from. There is a video for almost everything in the makeup industry. Do you want to learn how to create a smoky eye look or a holiday theme look? Then just watch a makeup tutorial on how to do so. These videos normally don’t take much of your time and only takes a few minutes to watch. Want to suggest your viewers what makeup products to use for their skin just watch and create a makeup- guide tutorial. What many don’t come to realize is that Makeup tutorials is a form of genre. According to Miller Carolyn “genres have been defined by similarities in strategies or forms of discourses, by similarities in audience, by similarities in modes of thinking, by similarities in rhetorical situations” (Miller 1984). Genre is more than just a type of music or book it could also come to be a form of anything that appeals to the same audience, uses the same format each time, has similar language and has a significant message.
Each specific genre comes with
She has over five thousand subscribers and is really well known for her individual style. Her videos mainly concentrate in representing a look for almost any occasion. She is well resected and likeable by her audience because she creates a sense of friendship with her viewers by instantly replying to their suggestions and comments. She also has a section in her channel that she gets ready with the audience and then takes them to the places she goes. The last Youtuber I took a look at was Laura Lee. Lee mostly concentrate in making videos of a variety of topics not just makeup tutorials. She has videos such as trying the top ten worst makeup products. She has over two thousand