Category: Beauty
As I open up a PDF containing previews from the The Fat Zine – a freshly-launched publication created by fat-positive writers Gina Tonic and Chloe Sheppard, for fat people – the very first thing I see is a picture of a model called Elyonna Mone. Within the photo, which was shot by Izzy Jackson, Mone’s backside takes centre stage. She’s within the shower as gentle drops of water trickle down her frame. It strikes me that even on this age of supposed ‘body-positivity,’ it’s very rare to see images of fat bodies from behind. That's, from angles that is perhaps considered “unflattering.” It’s especially rarer to see such images of fat, Black bodies (or other bodies of color).
Here, though, drips...
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There have been many, many beauty brand celebrity partnerships through the years going right back to 1927 when Pond’s teamed up with Queen Marie of Romania to endorse its Cold Cream. This latest one, nonetheless, might just be one in every of the good yet. The players of the WNBA have joined Glossier to assist launch the brand’s recent additions to its Body Hero range.
First introduced in 2017 with an oil-infused body cleanser and lotion, Glossier’s Body Hero collection is centred around the concept that your body deserves just as much attention, quality ingredients, and appreciation as your face. Now, the range is being joined by two recent products: an oil mist and an exfoliating bar.
The Body Hero Dry-Touch Oil...
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Grimes is the queen of post-human aesthetics, from her experiments in bio-hacking to her (as yet unrealised) plans to get matching brain chips with Lil Uzi Vert. Her futuristic beauty looks have inspired a whole generation of terminally online alt-girls and emo faeries, who fuse tech and fantasy elements of their quest to higher resemble video-game characters.
Earlier this yr, the Canadian auteur took the subsequent step in her “long slow effort to have a full alien body” with a second white ink tattoo. The primary, a sprawling backpiece from 2021, was a collaboration between tattoo artist Tweakt and artist Nusi Quero. Described as “beautiful alien scars”, each tattoos resemble tribal tattoos from a martian technocracy; their white lines giving the...
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