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Jul
Class Tag
Botox, fillers and cosmetic surgery have gotten increasingly needed to live as much as contemporary beauty standards, making a beauty tax that's pricing many people out
In our latest Class Ceiling series, we unpack how class actually affects young people today – from our jobs, to the best way we now have sex, to our general experience of the world.
Beauty and wealth have at all times been bedfellows. Throughout history, the sweetness standard of any given period has served the ideological interests of the ruling class. Through the Renaissance, plump, pale skin was a prized signifier of high social status, while sun-darkened skin became synonymous with lower classes labouring outside. Today, nevertheless, that very...
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Botox, fillers and cosmetic surgery have gotten increasingly crucial to live as much as contemporary beauty standards, making a beauty tax that's pricing many people out
In our recent Class Ceiling series, we unpack how class actually affects young people today – from our jobs, to the best way we've got sex, to our general experience of the world.
Beauty and wealth have at all times been bedfellows. Throughout history, the wonder standard of any given period has served the ideological interests of the ruling class. In the course of the Renaissance, plump, pale skin was a prized signifier of high social status, while sun-darkened skin became synonymous with lower classes labouring outside. Today, nonetheless,...
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QVC is giving its Master Beauty Class event one other go.
After the series’ successful first yr in 2022 — at that time, it was the retailer’s largest beauty event ever — QVC is taking the event across digital platforms to widen its reach.
“It’s now not about just connecting through the tv, we at the moment are casting such a large net to so many other platforms,” said Anna Baker, vp and general merchandise manager at QVC. Those platforms include TikTok, QVC.com, the retailer’s app, Facebook and YouTube. “[Our customer] is engaging with us on all of those different platforms.”
Participating brands include Too Faced, Peter Thomas Roth, Lancer, Tarte and Philosophy. It can also include Be Free, a recent hair care brand from...
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