Beauty Tips – Page 30

6 Aug

Emma Dabiri: ‘Beauty culture is a mirrored image of

How do our surroundings determine our relationship with our body image? Growing up Irish and Nigerian, creator and broadcaster Emma Dabiri’s concept of beauty has long been defined by Eurocentric standards and what was deemed most desirable on the time (big boobs and a thigh gap). But on a journey of self-reclamation, she has learnt that beauty isn’t a physical entity, but a way of being. In her latest book, Disobedient Bodies, the creator of Don’t Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next unpacks age-old notions of beauty and divulges how the expectations and demands around it are completely contradictory. Disobedient Bodies grapples with the complicated and messy history of beauty, and the way our always evolving (yet...

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6 Aug

Unshrinking: how you can detox from fatphobia

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Unshrinking: how you can detox from fatphobia

In her recent book Unshrinking, Kate Manne explores the systemic nature of fatphobia and the way we are able to unlearn the damaging body standards we're taught from a young age Prior to now week, five per cent of teenage girls have used a harmful weight-loss product with out a prescription from a health care provider. That’s one in 20. We live in a society that places a major amount of value on thinness, and it’s clear the pressure to stick to this ideal starts young. Fatphobia is present in nearly every aspect of our culture, from medical bias around weight to body shaming in promoting. And if it seems, on the surface,...

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6 Aug

How one can recreate 8 of Kate Moss’s era-defining

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How one can recreate 8 of Kate Moss’s era-defining

It's Kate Moss’s fiftieth birthday, so to have a good time we dip into the Mossy archives and choose eight of her most iconic beauty looks that you just can re-create A version of this text was published 16 January 2019 We've been taking a look at Kate Moss’s face for over 30 years now, across changing a long time, trends and styles. “Where beauty norms have shifted and mutated,” nevertheless, Liam Hess wrote when pondering the enduring influence of Kate, “Moss’s appeal has never faded.” Or as AA Gill put it: “If Kate Moss used banana peels as knickers, she’d triple the economy of Costa Rica overnight.” While her influence and renegade spirit has...

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5 Aug

Escentric Molecules celebrates the fluidity of affection in latest

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Escentric Molecules celebrates the fluidity of affection in latest

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, shop the brand’s iconic Molecule range Through the years, our growing knowledge surrounding body chemistry and skin micro-flora has finally make clear why certain scents smell different on different people. To place it simply, compounds inside your body and your skin’s microorganisms engage with the components of a fragrance, leading to a wholly personal scent profile. Founded in 2006, Escentric Molecules was the primary brand to tap into this data and pioneer a latest sort of fragrance brand rooted in chemistry and scientifically-based research. 'Theirs' Gift Set £171.00 At Escentric Molecules, we consider that fragrances should not limited to binary categories but needs to be celebrated for his or her...

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