Category: Beauty
Not confined to the world of larping or annually Halloween costumes, increasingly more persons are introducing plastic or latex elf ear prosthetics into their on a regular basis wear. Why? Since it allows them to precise something about their true selves that more mainstream make-up may not. Whether it's using ears to boost their innate beauty or wearing them to totally transform their natural selves, we spoke to seven individuals championing the style to seek out out more.
Ayesha Tan Jones AKA YaYa Bones, musician and multidisciplinary artist, London
How did you get into elf ears?I've only recently acquired a pair of elf ears, an incredible custom pair with studs and chains made by my magical friend Wolfe_chains. They gifted me a pair of ears...
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For hundreds of years, philosophers and psychologists have fought over the mind-body connection and this relationship continues to be just as fraught today. From the ‘obesity crisis’ to gender fluidity, the ways during which our psychological self pertains to the physical is complex and contentious.
Within the seventeenth century, René Descartes argued that the mind exists individually from the body and that the body cannot think. Such dualist considering has been the dominant attitude toward the body ever since encouraging us to take care of the considering mind and dismiss that which is corporeal. The truth is, quite worryingly psychoanalyst Susie Orbach argues we are moving towards a dematerialised existence where every part we understand about living, “will occur within the realm...
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I grew up in Kentish Town in North London, now the house of bouji 20-somethings hooked on kombucha. Back then, within the early noughties, it was the fifteenth most deprived area of the country, with child poverty at 40.3%. I used to be one in all those kids. I grew up poor and in social housing. I used to be the kid and grandchild of Irish migrants who consequently of poverty, social exclusion and trauma lived with tricky relationships with food, booze and medicines. I adopted a few of their addictions and made poverty shame my very own. In consequence I grew up as, and still am, what doctors call ‘morbidly obese’.
As an adolescent I did all the pieces to not...
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