Financially speaking, makeup can be a burden. One item might not break the bank, but the combined cost of everything you might find in a woman’s makeup bag—foundation, blush, mascara, eye liner, eye shadow, and so on—quickly adds up. By one estimate, a woman in the US will spend an average of $15,000 on makeup in her lifetime.
化妆品在是我们经济上一个负担。一款化妆品可能不会让你破产,但是把一个女人化妆包里所有的化妆品加起来——粉底,腮红,睫毛膏,眼线笔等等——费用就很多了。据估计,美国女性一生在化妆品上的平均花费就有1.5万美元。
The kicker is, the ingredients in these products often account for no more than 15% of the cost, according to Randy Schueller, a cosmetic chemist who has been in the beauty business for more than 30 years and is co-founder of The Beauty Brains, a website devoted to debunking cosmetic myths through science.
从事美妆领域30多年的化妆品专家、同时也是The Beauty Brains网站的联合创始人兰迪 ·舒尔勒说:让人糟心的是,化妆品里原料只占不到售价的15%。The Beauty Brains网站致力于通过科学的方式揭露化妆品的秘密。
Mainly what people are paying for is marketing, packaging, and brand prestige. That’s why lipstick, for example, which is mostly wax, oil, and pigments, routinely costs more than $20 a tube at a department store makeup counter.
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