Goop horror: The new wave of literature skewering the

12 Apr

Body horror in The SubstanceGallery / 19 images In Sarah Wang’s debut novel New Skin, a Chinese immigrant mother in Los Angeles spends her benefit payments on backstreet cosmetic procedures. When things go catastrophically awry, her daughter discovers that some of the substances being illegally injected into faces would be more at home on building sites. Wang, who researched the novel partly through immersion in the American reality show Botched, which documents cosmetic surgery disasters, found the truth required little embellishment. She describes women who woke from surgery to find procedures had been performed on them without consent. Meanwhile, a surgeon whose practice consisted almost entirely of debriding flesh rotted by Brazilian butt lifts told her that most get botched. The UK, too,...

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11 Apr

Get Ready With Junelle Bromfield For Her Wedding With

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Get Ready With Junelle Bromfield For Her Wedding With

Photos by Stan Lo Photography. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… It’s only right that track star Junelle Bromfield was glowing for her “all shades of melanin”-themed wedding to Noah Lyles on April 4th. Naturally, the stunner “doesn’t wear much makeup,” as she tells ESSENCE right before the big day. That said, for her bridal look, “I’m going for foundation, setting powder, concealer, mascara, lip liner for sure, and lip gloss,” she shares of the glam, done by Tia Codrington of YSBeautyCo, that helped her natural beauty shine through. “I didn’t really have any inspiration, I just am trusting the glam team to do what they do!” Topping it all off? Her silky half-up, half-down ‘do, by Estylez, that featured a face framing...

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3 Apr

This suction vibrator is clitorally-inclusive to accommodate all bodies

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This suction vibrator is clitorally-inclusive to accommodate all bodies

Clitorises come in all different shapes and sizes. Just as there is no such thing as the perfect vulva, the idea of a “normal” clit is a myth – it’s just not a one size fits all situation down there. It’s with this in mind that sex toy company Smile Makers has created its new vibrator, The Poet. The brand’s first suction vibrator, The Poet uses air pulse technology to stimulate the clitoris, mimicking the feeling of oral sex. Understanding that clitorises come in a diverse range of shapes all with varying sensitivities, the brand designed the vibrator with three different “mouth” sizes to ensure that it is comfortable and personalised for everyone. It has also been ergonomically designed for a...

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3 Apr

We can’t look away from our split and severed

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We can’t look away from our split and severed

Body horror in The SubstanceGallery / 19 images There’s a scene early on in the film The Substance where Demi Moore’s character, Elisabeth Sparkle, splits down her spine to give birth to a younger her (Margaret Qualley as Sue). Falling to the floor of her bathroom, her open back perfectly encapsulates the film’s premise: Would you be willing to tear yourself in half for a ‘better’ you? While most people probably swore they’d never take the substance, many enjoyed watching Moore navigate through a divided image. The same goes for A Different Man, another 2024 movie where an aspiring actor gets his dream face and then becomes obsessed with his old one. So why are we yearning to watch the dichotomy of...

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