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18 Aug

Sophie Apollonia on navigating the world of ballet as

Sophia Apollonia is a dancer, model, movement director and actress. After training on the Royal Ballet School, Sophia has danced in productions like Swan Lake and Manon as a part of The Royal Ballet. She has also performed at events including the BRIT Awards and The Royal Variety Performance. As a model, Sophia has worked with publications including Vogue and iD magazine and industrial clients like Vivianne Westwood, Charlotte Tilbury, Gareth Pue, Gucci, and Roberto Cavalli. My insecurities with beauty all began on the tender age of 11 once I joined the Royal Ballet School. Being the one ethnic minority in my 12 months group highlighted my awareness of being “different” to my white peers. My large afro hair was often...

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17 Aug

Will being ‘ugly’ be aspirational sooner or later?

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Will being ‘ugly’ be aspirational sooner or later?

“I even have a theory, in like ten years, being a bit ugly and a bit wrinkly goes to be in fashion,” says Ash Powers in a TikTok video. In the following ten to fifteen years, she explains, when everyone has succumbed to smoothing and tweaking their faces, “we're going to take a look at someone who has never had any work done and say, ‘Oh my god her crows feet… she just looks so… expressive. It’s so beautiful.’” With over 2.8 million views and 490,000 likes at time of writing, this video has kickstarted a conversation about our fascination with rarity, the longer term of beauty, and the role we play...

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17 Aug

How this artist is difficult conservatism in Brazilian political

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How this artist is difficult conservatism in Brazilian political

Brazilian artist and performer Aun Helden desires to tear down the constructs and constrictions around our bodies and begin again. Their work moves towards an understanding of gender and sex that’s free from cis-heteronormative patriarchal definitions. Un-gendering and un-sexing themself of their online artwork, they're rebuilding themself fluidly with seeming full creative autonomy over their appearance. Inspired partly by their mother, and in lieu of a father figure, they've repoistioned themselves as a maternal figure presiding over their very own body. Fertile imagery abounds of their work; glossy black eggs, vulvic prosthetics, phallic facial appendages à la H.R. Geiger, and large, galactic, empty black eyes. With the rise of the far-right and the election of president Bolsonaro in Brazil, the climate in Brazil for...

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17 Aug

Has imperfection develop into the newest unrealistic beauty ideal?

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Has imperfection develop into the newest unrealistic beauty ideal?

We reside in an age of polarization as identity continues to dominate modern-day politics. Nonetheless, such extremism will not be limited to politics, beauty trends too are divisive. Given the prolific rise of the Kardashian Klan and their $1billion beauty business, we have now, lately, witnessed the emergence of the ‘positive’ subcultures, a backlash against the sisters’ surgically-enhanced beauty. While the body positivity preached by these subcultures is a preferable alternative, it also seems somewhat unrealistic on condition that digital marketing experts estimate the common American is exposed to 4,000-10,000 advertisements each day. It is sort of unattainable to flee the sanitised images we're sold. And yet, nowadays the practice of self-love is a social expectation and the celebration of...

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