Does mental property exist in the wonder community?

1 Mar

Exploring the wonder industry’s lack of legal protection in relation to matters of the body In 2015, the L.A. based make-up artist and photographer Vlada Haggerty posted a picture to her Instagram that even those unfamiliar with the Instagram beauty community have likely come across in some capability by now: a pair of molten gold lips dripping color, mouth open and teeth barely exposed. It might go on to turn out to be one in all the artist’s signatures and one of the vital copied editorial make-up images. Everyone from Kylie Jenner’s beauty label to LVHM’s Make Up For Ever and the style brand Guess appear to have knocked it off in numerous iterations, starting from...

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17 Nov

TikTok’s Sister App Lemon8 Is Cultivating a Fledgling Beauty

by Beautifaire101

Beauty, Featured

TikTok parent company ByteDance appears to hope lightning can strike twice within the U.S. market with its Lemon8 app. Introduced in Japan in 2020, Lemon8 launched within the U.S. this past February — around the identical time legislative efforts to limit TikTok ramped up — and inside one month, it briefly ranked among the many top 10 most downloaded apps on the U.S. App Store. On the app, users can post and examine beauty, fashion and lifestyle content — namely in the shape of static photos, though video-sharing is an option as well — and, like TikTok, the app’s central feature is its “For You” page, which features content tailored to a user’s interests. Beauty and wellness are amongst Lemon8’s...

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3 Sep

Can the natural hair community trust celebrity brands like

by Beauty Tips

Beauty, Featured

Black celebrity haircare brands have been criticised for being underperforming and overpriced. But where is that this scepticism coming from and why don’t hair brands owned by white celebrities receive the same backlash? Beyoncé is currently on a world tour promoting her latest album, Renaissance – and yet she’s still managed to search out time to tease a possible haircare line, posting a half-cryptic gallery on Instagram. Unsurprisingly, social media was immediately abuzz with comments from the Beehive. One person posted a sequence of photos and videos on Twitter that showcased Queen B’s natural hair in numerous styles, together with the words: “Beyoncé’s natural hair the past several years. Hair Care line bout to...

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25 Aug

Contained in the growing online community of Black gyarus

by Beauty Tips

Beauty, Featured

The 90s Japanese subculture has found a recent home online, where a growing variety of Black TikTokers are adopting the trend for themselves Lavender is finished up as a “manba” gyaru. Her white painted lips match her heavy white eye make-up and daring white nose contour that extends up onto her brow. Oversized lashes hang down low under her eyes and her long nails are painted the identical pastel baby blue as her eyeshadow. Even amid all of the noise on TikTok, the look stands out. Which makes it unsurprising that the video has over 4 million views and over 640,000 likes. But removed from being alone, Lavender is just considered one of...

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