March 2024
PARIS — Because the lines between wellness and wonder proceed to blur, L’Oréal said Wednesday it has partnered with Clue, an app that tracks people’s menstrual cycles, so as to glean a greater understanding of the link between skin health and hormonal changes.
In 2012, Danish and German entrepreneurs Ida Tin and Hans Raffauf cofounded Clue. Today, the app has greater than 12 million users in 190 countries. It's billed as a pacesetter in femtech and the digital health space.
“At L’Oréal, we now have a powerful belief that the innovation that we bring to boost people’s beauty and well-being lies on the intersection of science and technology to satisfy consumers’ expectations and desires,” Barbara Lavernos, deputy chief executive officer in control...
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From flesh hook suspension to genital piercings and tightlacing, for this artist pain was the last word form of beauty
Extreme types of beauty are a number of the most beautiful manifestations of humanity's obsession with pain and pushing the boundaries of the human form. Beauty is Pain is a latest Dazed Beauty series by author Lexi Manatakis that traces the history of the world's most extreme body modifications while being an overarching interrogation of the philosophy of human pain and its link to beauty.
“Physical difference frightens people in our culture greater than anything. You'll be able to be aberrant as hell mentally, politically, socially, but do one little thing physically – put a...
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