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6 Oct

Product Of The Week: Dove Beauty Bar – Essence

Product Of The Week: Dove Beauty Bar – Essence
Composite by India Espy-Jones In an industry where there may be an amazing amount of product launches each day, Product Of The Week helps you narrow through the noise. To allow you to find your recent beauty and wellness favorites, this series highlights the tried-and-true products that our writers can’t live without. Recent York weather has a way of humbling our tans and hearts. Summer was slowly ending, and naturally, that meant one last trip to catch some sun. Mexico was a spot of comfort as I laid out and enjoyed the laziness of catching an off-the-cuff tan. 4 days of lying poolside or beachside was just what my skin needed to receive a golden glow. I felt achieved. Nevertheless, my skin...
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6 Oct

The sexiest flesh-baring Instagram accounts it’s essential to follow

The sexiest flesh-baring Instagram accounts it’s essential to follow
The sexiest flesh-baring Instagram accounts13 Images The brainchild of best friends Jules and Gebs, @RavveBeauty is the Instagram account dedicated to showcasing and celebrating all that's disturbing, disarming and alluring in the case of underground beauty. Doubled up contact lenses, iridescent face shimmer, obscure facial piercings, heads shaved to look like flowers in full bloom, unibrows, no brows, wiggly brows. Lending us their well-honed eye, here they pick their top beauty Instagrams of the month. In the case of showing off the human body, Instagram doesn’t make it easy. Post something too risque and pics get deleted suddenly or explanation, likes wander away, engagement drops. In actual fact Instagram is a paradox: on the one hand inviting us to translate as much...
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6 Oct

We’re about to enter the ‘Undetectable Era’ of beauty

We’re about to enter the ‘Undetectable Era’ of beauty
A video of Christina Aguilera has come up on my TikTok feed multiple times over the past few weeks. Going to the comments, it’s abundantly clear what has granted caused this clip to go viral. Wearing an anime-cosplay monochrome search for a performance in Osaka, together with her hair pinned high and flawlessly blended diamanté-encrusted make-up, it’s not only that Aguilera looks “good” for her age (which is 43), she looks 20 years younger. As one commenter puts it, “wait what am I back in 2002.”  “The Undetectable Era” is is what the first video on the subject labels it as. “What individuals are doing to their face in the following yr goes to blow you away,” plastic surgeon Dr Prem...
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5 Oct

This photo book contrasts the human body with ‘hyper-natural’

This photo book contrasts the human body with ‘hyper-natural’
Collaboration sits at the guts of the creative world. When artists bring together their talent, a special alchemy can occur. This was the case for make-up artist Thomas de Kluyver and photographer Zoë Ghertner’s recent book, already past and already again there. Created meticulously over the course of three years, the book presents a free-flowing series of images that explore the human body inside each the natural and ‘hyper-natural’ worlds. After first meeting on the set of a shoot nine years ago, the 2 creatives bonded over their shared artistic understanding and have since built up a definite language which they dropped at already past and already again there. “Zoë and I even have something quite symbiotic after we work together,...
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