22
Aug
Category: Beauty
From Rihanna proudly Instagramming an image of her leg hair last summer to Ashley Armitage’s campaign for razor brand Billie – the primary ad of its kind to truly show body hair – we’re finally getting the representation we'd like in the case of body hair.
Now, Nike has change into the most recent brand to hitch the conversation with their recent ad featuring Nigerian-America singer Annahastasia together with her arm raised to disclose a small patch of hair on her armpits.
Initially, the campaign was met with praise. “That is incredible 👏” said lifestyle and fitness influencer @oenone. "We'd like more freedom on this world to do what we are going to with our bodies without someone attempting to shame" said...
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What happens to the body when technology is enacted upon it? When it enters our body, once we start wearing it, once we start eating it? It’s a matter that's becoming more relevant as we turn out to be increasingly intimate with technology, and our bodies are being consistently mediated by machines - what are AirPods, for instance, if not aural implants? Absent of any wires they will sit in your ears all day, eliminating the seam between the body and the machine.
The boundaries are collapsing and it's these points of interface and instability that artist Lucy McRae is concerned about. Part artist, part scientist, part futurist, McRae created the title “Body Architect” for herself as a option to encompass...
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Like many creatives who're othered for being ‘different’, Bonnie Bakeneko is all about difficult conventional beauty standards – something they do through their handmade bespoke fetish pieces for the face and mouth. Drawing on their struggles with mental health, the non-binary artist’s designs reflect the dark desires that underpin your deepest fantasies. Offering custom pieces to cater your personal aesthetic taste, Bakeneko’s extravagant designs vary from bejewelled cheek retractors – formerly confined to the dentist chair and something which Bakeneko’s own fears and anxieties have long been certain up in – to headpieces adorned with beetle wings and taxidermy. Growing up in rural Norwich, Bonnie finds solace within the quiet, seclusion of the countryside. With plans to relocate just outside...
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